Senior AI Enablement Engineer, People Solutions

Justworks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 166,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Justworks in New York City seeks a Senior AI Enablement Engineer, People, to own production AI tools for the People team. You ship AI-driven workflows, define scalable blueprints, and collaborate with data, security, and HR systems to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.

This role emphasizes responsible AI, data privacy, and stakeholder collaboration while driving rapid, impact-focused delivery. You will be building core AI layers, data reliability, and technical partnerships across the

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional, hands-on builder/software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building with LLMs and AI tooling in production: agent frameworks, pipelines, retrieval systems, or AI‑integrated workflows that real users depend on.
• Familiarity with LLM observability tooling (LangSmith, Datadog LLM monitoring, or equivalent): you instrument what you build and use signal to improve it
• Systems-level understanding of data retrieval with comfort working with vector embeddings and combining structured data, such as Snowflake tables, with unstructured text to power intelligent, context-aware internal tools.
• Strong working knowledge of data privacy standards, including experience building audit trails, role-based permissions, and robust access controls for highly confidential datasets.
• Familiarity with HR/People systems such as Workday or Greenhouse is a meaningful plus, but not required.
• Strong communication skills — able to present technical options, trade-offs, and progress to non-technical People and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently in ambiguous, greenfield environments: defining scope, sequencing work, and driving to production without heavy oversight.

Responsibilities

• Build Core AI & Automation Layer: drive the technical execution of the People team's AI transformation roadmap and architecture.
• Create agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and system integrations to scale workflows from Human+AI to AI as a system.
• Scan external AI capabilities and translate signals into briefs for experiments.
• Create reproducible blueprints, demos, and guides to transfer AI ownership across the People team.
• Develop Data Layer & AI Reliability with Snowflake data model understanding and robust privacy controls.
• Partner with analytics and governance to ensure trusted data for AI workflows.

Skills

Software engineering

LLM tooling

System design

Independent worker

Tools

LangSmith

Datadog LLM monitoring

Snowflake

Workday

Greenhouse

Job description

Justworks in New York City seeks a Senior AI Enablement Engineer, People, to own production AI tools for the People team. You ship AI-driven workflows, define scalable blueprints, and collaborate with data, security, and HR systems to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.

This role emphasizes responsible AI, data privacy, and stakeholder collaboration while driving rapid, impact-focused delivery. You will be building core AI layers, data reliability, and technical partnerships across the