HR Operations Specialist

Sonar; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Anchor days: Mon/Tue/Thu

Job summary

Sonar in Austin, TX, seeks an HR Operations Specialist to keep the employee lifecycle running smoothly, accurately, and in compliance with local requirements. This hands-on role provides the operational foundation for the global HR organization and supports employees around the world.

You will guide onboarding, ensure data quality, assist payroll, respond to complex questions, maintain records, and manage offboarding, visa and relocation, benefits, and EOR relationships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent hands-on HR operations experience.
• Experience across onboarding, benefits, immigration/relocation, compliance.
• Ability to manage end-to-end processes with vendors and stakeholders.
• Comfort with ambiguous non-routine cases (visa, EOR, benefits escalation).
• Experience with external vendors and background checks.
• Strong HR systems knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Onboarding: Guide new hires through onboarding, ensuring timely, compliant data capture.
• Data Quality: Review employee records regularly to fix errors and gaps.
• Payroll Support: Confirm pay, bonuses, deductions with payroll teams before cycles.
• Employee Support: Address complex employee questions and resolve issues.
• Compliance Recordkeeping: Maintain employment documents and policy records.
• Offboarding & Transitions: Manage pay, docs, and access changes at departure.
• Visa & Relocation Support: Coordinate immigration and relocation logistics.
• Benefits Administration Support: Manage enrollment and changes in benefits.
• Employee of Record (EOR) Management: Handle EOR/PEO relationships where needed.
• Background Checks: Coordinate and track pre-employment checks.
• Reporting: Produce workforce metrics reports for decision-making.

Skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Data privacy

Organization

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field

Tools

HR systems software

Job description

Who is Sonar?

Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code verification and governance, we solve a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable.

Integrating seamlessly with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Devin, we help over 75% of the Fortune 100 build trusted, reliable, compliant software. Customers who use Sonar are 44% less likely to report an outage due to AI-generated code.

We believe code verification is the critical missing link in the Agent-Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC). Industry giants like Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company count on us to provide independent, explainable, consistent review and governance of their AI-generated code via products like:

• SonarQube: The world’s leading AI code review and verification platform.
• SonarQube Foundation Agent: Currently topping the leaderboards for agentic software repair.
• SonarSweep & Sonar Context Augmentation: Providing the enterprise-grade context and constraints agents need to be truly effective.

Our team operates across global hubs in Austin, Bochum, Dubai, Geneva, London, San Mateo (California), Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C. We move with a mindset we call CODE:

• Committed to our customers and community.
• Obsessed with quality.
• Deliberate in our decisions.
• Effective as one team.

With over $400M in revenue and profitable, fast-paced growth, we are building the backbone of the AI software revolution. If you’re hungry to have an impact, want to build at a fast pace, and ready to work at the forefront of AI, we want to hear from you.

Position Description

The HR Operations Specialist keeps the fundamentals of the employee lifecycle running smoothly, accurately, and in compliance with local requirements — from the day someone joins the company to the day they leave. This role is hands-on and detail-driven, providing the operational foundation that allows the broader HR organization to function with accurate data, timely processes, and dependable support for employees around the world.

What You Will Do

• Onboarding: Guide new hires through the onboarding process, ensuring information is captured accurately and all required steps are completed on time and in line with local requirements.
• Data Quality: Regularly review employee records to catch and correct errors or gaps, keeping employee data accurate, complete, and audit-ready.
• Payroll Support: Partner with payroll teams and vendors to confirm that pay, bonus, and deduction information is correct before each pay cycle.
• Employee Support: Respond to more complex employee questions and issues that go beyond basic inquiries, working through problems until they’re resolved.
• Compliance Recordkeeping: Keep required employment documents, forms, and policy records organized, current, and easy to retrieve.
• Offboarding & Transitions: Support employees moving out of the organization — whether by resignation or termination — making sure pay, final documentation, and access changes happen correctly and on schedule.
• Visa & Relocation Support: Coordinate visa applications, renewals, and relocation logistics for employees moving across borders, ensuring compliance with immigration requirements and a smooth transition for the employee.
• Benefits Administration Support: Support enrollment, changes, and day-to-day administration of employee benefits programs, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of employee questions.
• Employee of Record (EOR) Management: Manage relationships and processes with Employer/Employee of Record providers in markets where the company does not have a direct legal entity, ensuring accurate and compliant employment arrangements.
• Background Checks: Coordinate and track pre-employment and other required background checks, ensuring timely completion and proper handling of results in line with company policy and local law.
• Reporting: Prepare regular reports on workforce metrics (such as headcount, turnover, and pay trends) that others in the organization rely on to make decisions.

Experience And Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Solid, progressive experience in HR operations, ideally spanning multiple HR disciplines (e.g., onboarding, benefits, immigration/relocation, compliance) rather than a single narrow function.
• Demonstrated ability to manage processes and initiatives end-to-end — planning the work, coordinating with vendors and stakeholders, tracking progress, and driving things to completion without needing close direction.
• Comfortable owning ambiguous or non-routine situations (e.g., a complex visa case, an EOR transition, a benefits escalation) and figuring out the right path forward, escalating only when truly needed.
• Experience working with external vendors and partners (e.g., immigration counsel, benefits providers, EOR/PEO partners, background check vendors) and holding them accountable to timelines and quality.
• Strong working knowledge of HR systems and technology to manage records and processes.
• Good understanding of employment compliance and regulatory considerations across multiple jurisdictions, with sound judgment about risk.
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills, able to manage several concurrent workstreams with competing deadlines.
• Clear, confident communication — able to guide employees and stakeholders through complex or sensitive processes.
• Trustworthy with confidential and sensitive information.
• A proactive, resourceful operator who takes ownership rather than waiting to be told what to do; thrives with minimal supervision in a fast-moving, global environment.

In-office culture

We’re intentional about this. We believe the best teams are built in the room together. Three anchor days — Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays — create the collaboration rhythm that makes a hub office worth having.

Candidates need to be genuinely based in the location the role is posted — if that’s not where you are today, we’re happy to support relocation for the right person.

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

If you need any accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected] .

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.