Rippling
Staff Software Engineer - Documents AI
$180K–$315K
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership on complex product or platform initiatives.
About the job
Defines the technical vision and leads development of Rippling’s Documents Platform, making AI a reliable foundation for document experiences and workflows.
What you'll do
- Set the platform’s long-term architecture and roadmap, and lead cross-team AI initiatives from design through production.
- Build reusable APIs, services, evaluation frameworks, and platform capabilities for AI-powered document features.
- Establish quality, security, privacy, and observability practices while providing technical leadership and mentorship.
What they ask for
- Strong product and platform instincts, including turning ambiguous problems into scalable systems and reusable solutions.
- Ability to own work across backend architecture, data models, APIs, and user-facing experiences.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing technical direction.
- Strong engineering fundamentals, including designing reliable, scalable systems.
Nice to have
- Python experience.
Pay
USD 180,000–315,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python
AI focus
Lead AI work across document generation, extraction, understanding, transformation, and workflow automation; build platform capabilities and establish evaluation and trust foundations for AI-powered document experiences.
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