Forward Deployed Engineer, AI

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling in San Francisco/Austin is hiring to ship AI workflows across its HR, IT, and finance platform for enterprise customers. You’ll influence a broad surface area where each deployment adds agent capabilities and touches multiple modules.

This role offers the chance to help define early architecture and set the playbook as the FDE function takes shape within a fast-growing product suite.

Job description

San Francisco / Austin · Posted June 14, 2026

Why it's interesting

Rippling's FDE function is brand new - join early enough to set the playbook rather than follow it.

The role

Ship AI workflows across Rippling's HR/IT/finance platform for enterprise customers. Broad surface area: every module is adding agent capabilities and each deployment touches several.

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