Staff Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Own HR-domain AI architecture, model and orchestration decisions, and autonomy boundaries for agent actions.
• Build shared, upgrade-safe instructions and tools, plus evaluation, observability, and safety infrastructure for teams shipping AI experiences.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for integrations, migrations, prototypes, and incidents; partner with product, engineering, and design.

What they ask for

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with technical direction adopted beyond the immediate team.
• Hands-on experience authoring agentic instructions and prompts, designing autonomous workflows, and building evaluations.
• Production experience with LLM APIs, retrieval-grounded features, agent orchestration, tool and function calling, structured output enforcement, and at least one production model or orchestration migration.
• Experience with entitlement-aware data handling and evaluation infrastructure; strong system design, APIs, data modeling, testing, AI coding assistant use, and customer-facing on-call and incident command experience.

Nice to have

• HR domain experience in case management, employee journeys or lifecycle, or payroll/benefits/leave/absence.
• Integration with core HR, payroll, or benefits systems; contribution in a Forward deployment model.

Pay

$166,500 - $291,400 USD base salary

Tools

Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, LLM APIs

AI focus

Designs and governs production agentic HR experiences, including prompts, orchestration, retrieval, tool use, autonomy and safety boundaries, evaluation, and AI-assisted engineering standards; does not train foundation models.