Rippling
Senior Engineering Manager, AI Platform
San Francisco, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
Distributed SystemsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- Rippling AI is becoming a foundational platform across the company, powering everything from intelligent agents and automations to dashboards, and next-generation product experiences.
- This team sits at the intersection of platform engineering, AI infrastructure, developer experience, and product innovation.
- This is not a traditional ML Infrastructure role.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for the foundational AI platform powering Rippling AI.
- Own critical infrastructure areas including retrieval systems, search, reasoning frameworks, AI execution environments, observability, performance, and reliability.
- Drive improvements in latency, quality, scalability, and developer productivity across the AI platform.
- Build and evolve the platform capabilities that enable teams across Rippling to develop AI-powered products, agents, and automations.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to define platform strategy and prioritize investments that unlock the next generation of AI experiences.
- Lead large-scale initiatives across areas such as memory systems, automated tuning, evaluation frameworks, reporting, and AI performance optimization.
- Develop safe, scalable execution environments for AI-powered workflows, including code execution, document generation, and other agent capabilities.
- Collaborate with teams building customer-facing AI products while ensuring the underlying platform can support rapid growth and evolving use cases.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop exceptional engineers while fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and velocity Help shape the long-term architecture of Rippling's AI ecosystem as the company scales toward hundreds of AI-powered workflows and experiences.
- What you will need 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building large-scale distributed systems or platform infrastructure.
Benefits
- It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers.
- With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365-all within 90 seconds.
- While familiarity with machine learning systems is valuable, the focus is on building production-grade AI platforms and developer infrastructure that enable hundreds of engineers and AI-powered products across Rippling.
Company info
- You'll partner closely with engineering leaders, product leadership, and AI researchers to define the future of AI at Rippling while helping scale one of the company's fastest-growing product areas.
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- Rippling is an equal opportunity employer.
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