Rippling
Senior Engineering Manager, AI Platform
$207K–$345K
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jun 30, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience; 2+ years of engineering management experience.
About the job
Leads the engineering team building and scaling Rippling’s AI platform infrastructure for reliable, performant AI products, agents, and workflows.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow the AI Platform Infrastructure team and develop its engineers.
- Own and improve platform capabilities such as retrieval, search, reasoning, execution environments, observability, performance, and reliability.
- Set platform strategy and lead cross-functional initiatives to enable AI-powered products and workflows across Rippling.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience with large-scale distributed systems or platform infrastructure.
- 2+ years of engineering management experience leading teams delivering complex technical projects.
- Strong systems design and architecture experience across scalable backend platforms, infrastructure, or developer platforms.
- Experience operating production services with demanding reliability, performance, and observability requirements.
Pay
USD 207,000–345,000 per year (base salary)
AI focus
Builds production-grade AI platform infrastructure, including retrieval and search, reasoning, memory, evaluation, observability, and safe execution environments for AI-powered workflows.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative