Rippling

Staff Software Engineer - AI Experiences

San Francisco, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 11 days ago

Full-Stack DevelopmentPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningLLMsLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

You will be joining the AI Platform (AI Experiences) organization-the team behind Rippling AI, the fastest-growing product in the company's history.
As a Staff Engineer for AI Experiences, you will sit at the crossroads of core platform infrastructure and end-user execution.
This is a deeply hands-on, high-visibility role reporting directly to our engineering leadership in San Francisco, with immediate impact on our upmarket enterprise scaling strategy.

Engineer the Developer Experience (DevX): Design robust APIs, abstractions, and contract interfaces that empower Rippling's broader product engineering organization to rapidly build specialized AI capabilities and embed native AI elements straight into their application views.
Transform Interactive UX Primitives: Lead the evolution of the chat runtime from standard "walls of text" into high-performance, dynamic UI components (e.g., streaming interactive maps, interactive tables, and visual workflows directly inside the response frame).
Partner on Agent Lifecycle Observability: Collaborate closely with adjacent Automation and Agent teams to establish frontend primitives for background execution engines, designing how system states, admin settings, and conversation histories are securely rendered and audited.
Drive Cross-Functional Pods: Spearhead distributed technical initiatives connecting platform engineering in San Francisco with specialized core infrastructure teams globally, ensuring tight alignment on system runtime dependencies.
Proven ability to navigate extreme ambiguity, drive technical consensus across complex multi-product matrices, and execute with blitz-scale velocity.
Experience building scalable, reusable framework architectures for other internal engineering teams, or you have personally guided zero-to-one customer-facing applications through high-growth scale cycles.

What you will need 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend-leaning fullstack foundation and a proven history of shipping high-scale, platform-level capabilities.
you are a passionate, daily power user of the frontier toolchain (Claude, Cursor, Codex, or personal agentic workflows) and actively upskill your peers on these technologies.

About Rippling Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance.
Take onboarding, for example.
Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @ Rippling.com addresses.

At Rippling, we are not just building standalone AI features; we are constructing an autonomous operating system for work.

Exceptional communication skills, ability to communicate technical details to non technical stakeholders Additional Information Rippling is an equal opportunity employer.
To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accommodations@rippling.com Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.
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