Senior Engineering Manager, Risk Platform & AI Automation

Rippling (Netherlands); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 345,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering to lead the end-to-end horizontal financial risk decisioning platform across Payments, Corporate Card, Payroll, Spend Management, and Onboarding.

This role builds and runs the central safety and decisioning engine for every dollar moved, including real-time, sub-second checks and high-throughput batch processing, with an emphasis on agentic AI adoption to drive scale without headcount growth.

Qualifications

• Proven track record as an Engineering Manager leading core platform, infrastructure, or risk engineering teams.
• Experience with low-latency real-time evaluation systems (sub-second SLAs) and large-scale high-throughput offline batch processing.
• Domain expertise in financial technology, fraud mitigation, credit risk, or decisioning engine infrastructure.
• Experience integrating AI models or agentic automation into core workflows.
• Experience managing Staff-level engineers and building multi-region engineering organizations.
• Ability to partner with Product, Finance, and Operations teams against a balanced risk-appetite model.

Responsibilities

• Unified Risk Architecture: Direct the multi-quarter initiative to route 100% of Rippling's payments through a single, unified risk engine.
• No-Code Platform Engineering: Design and scale an in-house, no-code rule authoring platform for non-technical stakeholders to author, test, and deploy risk logic.
• Agentic AI & Automation: Architect and operationalize AI agents capable of synthesizing fraud signals, evaluating financial risk profiles, and executing automated determinations.
• Team Leadership & Development: Recruit, mentor, and lead a senior-heavy team of Staff and Senior Engineers in San Francisco.
• Global Team Scaling: Establish high-velocity cross-functional operating models as extended international engineering pods report into this scope.

Skills

Leadership Experience

Distributed Systems

Financial Technology

Fraud Risk

AI & Agentic Systems

Senior IC Management

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering to lead the end-to-end horizontal financial risk decisioning platform across Payments, Corporate Card, Payroll, Spend Management, and Onboarding.

This role builds and runs the central safety and decisioning engine for every dollar moved, including real-time, sub-second checks and high-throughput batch processing, with an emphasis on agentic AI adoption to drive scale without headcount growth.