Staff AI Platform Engineer, Data Cloud & ML

Rippling; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Data Cloud AI platform. You will architect the intelligence layer for a unified workforce system, building state-of-the-art schema retrieval and scalable training/inference pipelines.

You will partner with AI Platform, Infrastructure, Security, and Product Engineering to define primitives for model tuning, inference, and agent harnesses, while driving data cloud capabilities at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with ownership of distributed systems in production.
• Experience post-training and deploying LLMs in production environments.
• Experience optimizing model inference at scale, especially with LLMs and embedding models.
• Strong backend engineering skills in one or more languages such as Python, Go, or Java.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, container orchestration, observability, reliability engineering).
• Ability to drive cross-functional technical strategy and execute through influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop a state of the art schema retrieval system operating over Rippling native and customer defined schema.
• Scale Data Cloud AI training pipelines from data generation to training cluster management.
• Design and build RL training environments for structured and unstructured data retrieval.
• Develop agent harnesses enabling product teams to safely build AI features on Data Cloud.
• Optimize model serving and inference for scale from GPU level to user experiences.
• Partner with AI Platform, Infrastructure, Security, and Product Engineering to drive architecture and rollout plans.
• Lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and drive execution on multi-team initiatives.

Skills

Distributed systems

LLMs in production

Backend engineering

Python/Go/Java

Cloud-native infra

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Observability

Job description

Rippling is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Data Cloud AI platform. You will architect the intelligence layer for a unified workforce system, building state-of-the-art schema retrieval and scalable training/inference pipelines.

You will partner with AI Platform, Infrastructure, Security, and Product Engineering to define primitives for model tuning, inference, and agent harnesses, while driving data cloud capabilities at scale.