Justworks
Senior AI Enablement Engineer, People
New York, New York · Senior
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About the role
- We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
- We're helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business.
- We're data-driven and never stop iterating.
Responsibilities
- Building the Core AI & Automation Layer (~50%)
- Drive the technical execution of the People team's AI transformation roadmap-architecting, building, and maintaining intelligent solutions around our prioritized operational workflows.
- Assess the custom Workday-to-Snowflake pipeline to understand its architecture and engineering limitations, ensuring any AI tools built on top of it are designed to handle data quirks reliably.
- Design evaluation frameworks to measure the accuracy, latency, and real-world utility of AI tools, including hallucination rates, retrieval precision, and user satisfaction, to iterate based on those signals.
- Implement data privacy and access controls appropriate to highly sensitive people data, including PII handling, role-based access, and audit trails in close coordination with the Data Governance team.
- Serve as the primary technical thought partner to the Senior Manager of Strategy Operations to translate People strategy and operational pain points into scoped, sequenced engineering work.
- Collaborate with core engineering and data teams to align on infrastructure, security posture, and standards to ensure People-built systems are enterprise-grade and maintainable by others.
- Proactively surface risks, limitations, and failure modes in AI systems before they impact employees by building with an explicit lens on fairness, auditability, and responsible deployment in a workforce context.
- Technical Craft - writing clean, tested, maintainable code; making sound architectural decisions; and building systems that hold up in production, not just in a demo.
- Plans and Aligns - breaking down complex builds into sequenced milestones; communicating progress and blockers proactively to non-technical stakeholders without being asked.
Requirements
- You have a track record of shipping internal tools and AI-powered workflows that people actually use.
- You're as comfortable mapping a team's AI gaps and designing a solution as you are vibe-coding a working prototype with an AI agent.
- Build agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and system integrations required to scale workflows from 'Human + AI handoffs' to 'AI as a system' level maturity.
- Embed long-term operational success by creating reproducible blueprints, demos, and guides that naturally transfer expertise and cultivate sustainable AI ownership across the People team.
- 6+ years of professional, hands-on builder/software engineering experience.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience building with
- Familiarity with
- 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.
- Strong communication skills - able to present technical options, trade-offs, and progress to non-technical People and business stakeholders.
Compensation
- The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $166,000.00 - $214,000.00 per year.
Company info
- At Justworks, you'll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
- We're helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We're data-driven and never stop iterating. If you'd like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we'd love to hear from you.
- We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
- Our Values
- At Justworks, you'll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community.
- We solve HR issues.
- If you'd like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we'd love to hear from you.
- We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks.
- These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
- If this sounds like you, you'll fit right in.
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- all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, vetera
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