Staff AI Platform Engineer

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 198,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Salary + benefits

Job summary

Rippling, based in San Francisco, is building an autonomous operating system for work. As a Staff Engineer on Rippling AI, you will lead architecture for high-impact AI initiatives and own end-to-end design across multiple teams to make Rippling’s products smarter and more autonomous.

You’ll join a team delivering Rippling AI, rebuilding customer touchpoints from onboarding to IT requests around agents, with startup speed and category-leading reach.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of leadership and impact.
• Deep expertise in platform and distributed systems engineering for large-scale, observable systems.
• Strong hands-on coding while leading across teams.
• Experience guiding complex, cross-functional technical initiatives and aligning multiple teams.
• Strong product instincts and ability to translate ambiguous problems into durable capabilities.
• Clear, precise communication to diverse audiences, written and verbal.
• Comfort with ambiguity and high-velocity environments where roadmaps evolve.
• Recent hands-on experience building AI agents is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical architecture for high-impact AI platform initiatives from design through production.
• Lead a cross-functional pod of engineers across product, infra, and platform orgs.
• Build scalable agent infrastructure that automates high-frequency workflows.
• Design observable, self-correcting systems that improve over time with minimal human intervention.
• Develop harness and platform capabilities encoding business logic and institutional knowledge into automated workflows.
• Partner with Product to ensure AI-powered surfaces are trustworthy and intuitive for users and admins.
• Mentor engineers, establish best practices for AI platform development, and raise the technical bar.
• Track frontier advances and translate model improvements into architectural decisions.

Skills

Software leadership

Platform systems

Hands-on coding

Cross-functional leadership

Product instincts

Clear communication

Ambiguity tolerance

AI agents experience

Job description

Rippling, based in San Francisco, is building an autonomous operating system for work. As a Staff Engineer on Rippling AI, you will lead architecture for high-impact AI initiatives and own end-to-end design across multiple teams to make Rippling’s products smarter and more autonomous.

You’ll join a team delivering Rippling AI, rebuilding customer touchpoints from onboarding to IT requests around agents, with startup speed and category-leading reach.