{"uuid":"8d348367-72ad-49d7-a06d-19d691f01069","name":" Senior Software Engineer - AI Initiative","description":{"company":"<meta><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">About Rippling</strong></b></h2><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Take onboarding, for example. 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.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Based in San Francisco, CA, </span><a href=\"https://www.rippling.com/careers#:~:text=GLOBAL%20EMPLOYEES-,%241.4B%2B,-RAISED%20TO%20DATE\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-173makr-linkStyle\" style=\"color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling has raised $1.8B+</span></a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @</span><a href=\"http://www.Rippling.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-173makr-linkStyle\" style=\"color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling.com</span></a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> addresses.</span></p>","role":"<meta><h3 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:14px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:15pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">About the AI Platform Team</span></h3><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The AI Platform team is one of Rippling's highest-priority engineering investments and sits at the center of the company's broader AI strategy. The team is building the foundational infrastructure that powers AI capabilities across Rippling's entire product ecosystem, including HR, Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting, IT, Finance, Compliance, and Workforce Management. Rather than building standalone chatbots or simple LLM integrations, the team focuses on creating deeply integrated AI systems that understand Rippling's rich business context, permissions model, workflows, and enterprise data.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The team is developing core platform capabilities such as AI agents, workflow automation engines, evaluation frameworks, feedback loops, data pipelines, and self-healing systems that can identify issues, surface insights, and help automate complex enterprise workflows. These systems operate with real business context, approvals, permissions, and auditability requirements, enabling customers to safely delegate operational tasks while maintaining control and governance.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">One of the unique aspects of Rippling AI is that it is built directly on top of Rippling's unified data model and permission system. The platform can reason across HR, IT, Payroll, and Finance data while respecting access controls and providing verifiable outputs. The team is solving challenging problems around agent orchestration, workflow execution, reliability, permissions, evaluations, observability, data quality, and scalable AI infrastructure.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This is an ideal environment for engineers who enjoy building large-scale backend and platform systems, working through ambiguity, and owning products end-to-end. Engineers on the team are highly hands-on, spend the majority of their time coding, and have the opportunity to shape how AI becomes a core part of enterprise software. The role offers significant ownership, visibility, and a strong path toward Staff-level engineering scope over time.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What you will do:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Build foundational AI platform systems that support Rippling’s broader AI strategy across HR, IT, Finance, payroll, benefits, recruiting, compliance, and internal workflows. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Work as a deeply hands-on Senior Software Engineer, with around 60% of time expected to be spent coding, debugging, reviewing code, and owning implementation. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Contribute to the design and build-out of AI platform capabilities such as background agents, automated workflows, evaluation systems, data pipelines, and model quality feedback loops. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Help build systems that allow AI agents to automate repetitive enterprise workflows with the right permissions, controls, approvals, and auditability. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Work on platform systems that support self-healing and self-improving workflows, where AI can detect negative product signals and help identify root causes. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Partner with Staff Engineers, Product, Infra, Platform, and Engineering stakeholders to convert ambiguous product/platform problems into scalable technical solutions. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Own well-defined to moderately ambiguous components end-to-end — from design and implementation to testing, launch, monitoring, and iteration. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Participate actively in design discussions, code reviews, debugging, production support, and operational improvements. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Build reliable, scalable, and maintainable backend/platform systems that can support Rippling’s product ecosystem.</span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What’s exciting about this role: </strong></b></p><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This is not a generic chatbot or lightweight LLM wrapper role. The team is building core AI platform infrastructure that can make Rippling’s product surface more autonomous, context-aware, and self-improving. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Engineers will get exposure to AI agents, automated enterprise workflows, self-healing systems, and custom intelligence layers built around Rippling-specific product context. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The role offers strong learning, ownership, and growth opportunities for engineers who want to work at the intersection of backend/platform engineering and AI infrastructure. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This is a strong opportunity for a high-potential Senior Engineer to grow toward Staff-level scope over time. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling AI is a high-priority company initiative, and the team needs strong Senior Engineers who can add meaningful hands-on execution capacity. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The AI Platform team is lean and supports a broad set of internal engineering and product stakeholders, creating a need for engineers who can ramp quickly and contribute with high ownership. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The team needs builders who are strong in backend/platform engineering and are comfortable working on scalable production systems. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The systems being built involve complex areas such as workflows, permissions, approvals, data quality, reliability, evaluations, and automation. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Generic LLMs do not fully understand Rippling’s proprietary workflows, policy logic, query language, company data, and permissions, so the team needs engineers who can help build AI infrastructure around Rippling’s real product context. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The team moves fast, and candidates need to be comfortable with ambiguity, changing priorities, and rapid iteration. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Coding is a core expectation for this role; this cannot be filled by someone who is not actively hands-on. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Start by owning meaningful components within AI Platform initiatives such as background agents, workflow automation, evaluations, data pipelines, or self-healing systems. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Grow from owning individual components to owning larger services, workflows, or platform modules end-to-end. Build depth in Rippling’s product context, AI platform systems, infrastructure, and internal engineering patterns. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Partner closely with Staff Engineers and senior technical leaders to learn how larger architecture and platform decisions are made. Increase influence through high-quality coding, strong debugging, reliable execution, thoughtful design input, and ownership after launch. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Over time, grow toward Staff-level expectations by taking on more ambiguous problems, mentoring other engineers, and influencing broader technical direction. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Become a trusted engineer who can independently deliver scalable, reliable, production-grade systems with limited hand-holding. Ability to ramp quickly into Rippling’s AI platform, codebase, product context, and internal systems. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong hands-on coding contribution, with approximately 60% of time spent coding and implementation-focused work. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to independently own features, components, services, or workflows from design to production. Delivery of reliable, scalable, maintainable backend/platform systems. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong execution quality across coding, testing, debugging, observability, and operational ownership. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to work well with Product, Infra, Platform, Staff Engineers, and other engineering stakeholders. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong engineering fundamentals in APIs, databases, system design, distributed systems, concurrency, and production debugging. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Demonstrated curiosity and learning agility around AI agents, LLM infrastructure, automation systems, evaluation loops, and data/ML infrastructure. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Positive contribution to team quality through code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and mentoring junior engineers where needed.</span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What you need to have:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">5–8 years of overall software engineering experience, preferably in backend, platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, or product engineering. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong hands-on coding ability; 60% coding is non-negotiable. Must be comfortable writing production-quality code, reviewing code, debugging issues, and owning implementation details. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong programming knowledge in one or more backend/general-purpose languages such as Python, Java, Go/Golang, C++, Scala, Kotlin, or C#. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Language should not be the only filter — coding fundamentals, system design depth, distributed systems exposure, and ability to build production-scale systems are more important. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience building and operating scalable backend/platform systems in production. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Good understanding of system design, API design, databases, data modeling, concurrency, observability, and production troubleshooting. Ability to independently own well-defined to moderately ambiguous technical problems from design to execution, launch, and iteration. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Comfortable working in a fast-paced product engineering environment with changing priorities and high ownership. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong collaboration skills with Product, Infra, Platform, and Engineering stakeholders. Good product judgment and ability to understand how engineering decisions impact customers and business outcomes. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to contribute to design reviews, code reviews, technical discussions, and team quality. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">For AI Platform specifically, practical curiosity or exposure to AI agents, LLM infrastructure, agentic workflows, ML/data infrastructure, inference pipelines, evaluations, automation systems, or adjacent AI systems is a strong plus. </span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What would be nice to have:</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"> </span></p><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Prior experience in a high-growth or hyper-growth startup / product-led technology company. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Recent hands-on exposure to AI agents, LLM tooling, AI infrastructure, automation platforms, evaluation systems, or data/ML pipelines. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong knowledge of Python for AI/ML infrastructure, automation, agents, scripting, evaluations, or data pipelines. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong SQL knowledge for querying, data-heavy systems, analytics, workflow systems, reporting, and enterprise intelligence use cases. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with Go, Java, C++, or Scala in backend, platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems environments. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Exposure to TypeScript / JavaScript if the role involves full-stack, internal tooling, dashboards, or product surface ownership. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with workflow orchestration, background automation, reliability platforms, internal tools, or developer productivity platforms. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Exposure to permissions, approvals, auditability, compliance, or security-sensitive workflows. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Prior exposure to fintech, HR tech, payroll, benefits, compliance, IT, enterprise SaaS, or workflow-heavy platforms. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Clear evidence of learning quickly, taking ownership, and operating well in ambiguous environments. </span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Technical Skills:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">5–8 years of strong software engineering experience Preferably in backend, platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, or product engineering. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">60% hands-on coding is non-negotiable Candidate must be actively writing, reviewing, debugging, and owning production code. This is not a coordination-only or design-only role. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong coding ability in at least one backend/general-purpose language </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Preferred languages: Python, Java, Go/Golang, C++, Scala, Kotlin, or C#. 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AI Initiative","description":"<meta><h3 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:14px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:15pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">About the AI Platform Team</span></h3><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The AI Platform team is one of Rippling's highest-priority engineering investments and sits at the center of the company's broader AI strategy. The team is building the foundational infrastructure that powers AI capabilities across Rippling's entire product ecosystem, including HR, Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting, IT, Finance, Compliance, and Workforce Management. Rather than building standalone chatbots or simple LLM integrations, the team focuses on creating deeply integrated AI systems that understand Rippling's rich business context, permissions model, workflows, and enterprise data.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The team is developing core platform capabilities such as AI agents, workflow automation engines, evaluation frameworks, feedback loops, data pipelines, and self-healing systems that can identify issues, surface insights, and help automate complex enterprise workflows. These systems operate with real business context, approvals, permissions, and auditability requirements, enabling customers to safely delegate operational tasks while maintaining control and governance.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">One of the unique aspects of Rippling AI is that it is built directly on top of Rippling's unified data model and permission system. The platform can reason across HR, IT, Payroll, and Finance data while respecting access controls and providing verifiable outputs. The team is solving challenging problems around agent orchestration, workflow execution, reliability, permissions, evaluations, observability, data quality, and scalable AI infrastructure.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This is an ideal environment for engineers who enjoy building large-scale backend and platform systems, working through ambiguity, and owning products end-to-end. Engineers on the team are highly hands-on, spend the majority of their time coding, and have the opportunity to shape how AI becomes a core part of enterprise software. The role offers significant ownership, visibility, and a strong path toward Staff-level engineering scope over time.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What you will do:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Build foundational AI platform systems that support Rippling’s broader AI strategy across HR, IT, Finance, payroll, benefits, recruiting, compliance, and internal workflows. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Work as a deeply hands-on Senior Software Engineer, with around 60% of time expected to be spent coding, debugging, reviewing code, and owning implementation. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Contribute to the design and build-out of AI platform capabilities such as background agents, automated workflows, evaluation systems, data pipelines, and model quality feedback loops. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Help build systems that allow AI agents to automate repetitive enterprise workflows with the right permissions, controls, approvals, and auditability. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Work on platform systems that support self-healing and self-improving workflows, where AI can detect negative product signals and help identify root causes. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Partner with Staff Engineers, Product, Infra, Platform, and Engineering stakeholders to convert ambiguous product/platform problems into scalable technical solutions. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Own well-defined to moderately ambiguous components end-to-end — from design and implementation to testing, launch, monitoring, and iteration. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Participate actively in design discussions, code reviews, debugging, production support, and operational improvements. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Build reliable, scalable, and maintainable backend/platform systems that can support Rippling’s product ecosystem.</span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What’s exciting about this role: </strong></b></p><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This is not a generic chatbot or lightweight LLM wrapper role. The team is building core AI platform infrastructure that can make Rippling’s product surface more autonomous, context-aware, and self-improving. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Engineers will get exposure to AI agents, automated enterprise workflows, self-healing systems, and custom intelligence layers built around Rippling-specific product context. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The role offers strong learning, ownership, and growth opportunities for engineers who want to work at the intersection of backend/platform engineering and AI infrastructure. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This is a strong opportunity for a high-potential Senior Engineer to grow toward Staff-level scope over time. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling AI is a high-priority company initiative, and the team needs strong Senior Engineers who can add meaningful hands-on execution capacity. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The AI Platform team is lean and supports a broad set of internal engineering and product stakeholders, creating a need for engineers who can ramp quickly and contribute with high ownership. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The team needs builders who are strong in backend/platform engineering and are comfortable working on scalable production systems. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The systems being built involve complex areas such as workflows, permissions, approvals, data quality, reliability, evaluations, and automation. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Generic LLMs do not fully understand Rippling’s proprietary workflows, policy logic, query language, company data, and permissions, so the team needs engineers who can help build AI infrastructure around Rippling’s real product context. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The team moves fast, and candidates need to be comfortable with ambiguity, changing priorities, and rapid iteration. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Coding is a core expectation for this role; this cannot be filled by someone who is not actively hands-on. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Start by owning meaningful components within AI Platform initiatives such as background agents, workflow automation, evaluations, data pipelines, or self-healing systems. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Grow from owning individual components to owning larger services, workflows, or platform modules end-to-end. Build depth in Rippling’s product context, AI platform systems, infrastructure, and internal engineering patterns. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Partner closely with Staff Engineers and senior technical leaders to learn how larger architecture and platform decisions are made. Increase influence through high-quality coding, strong debugging, reliable execution, thoughtful design input, and ownership after launch. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Over time, grow toward Staff-level expectations by taking on more ambiguous problems, mentoring other engineers, and influencing broader technical direction. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Become a trusted engineer who can independently deliver scalable, reliable, production-grade systems with limited hand-holding. Ability to ramp quickly into Rippling’s AI platform, codebase, product context, and internal systems. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong hands-on coding contribution, with approximately 60% of time spent coding and implementation-focused work. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to independently own features, components, services, or workflows from design to production. Delivery of reliable, scalable, maintainable backend/platform systems. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong execution quality across coding, testing, debugging, observability, and operational ownership. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to work well with Product, Infra, Platform, Staff Engineers, and other engineering stakeholders. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong engineering fundamentals in APIs, databases, system design, distributed systems, concurrency, and production debugging. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Demonstrated curiosity and learning agility around AI agents, LLM infrastructure, automation systems, evaluation loops, and data/ML infrastructure. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Positive contribution to team quality through code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and mentoring junior engineers where needed.</span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What you need to have:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">5–8 years of overall software engineering experience, preferably in backend, platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, or product engineering. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong hands-on coding ability; 60% coding is non-negotiable. Must be comfortable writing production-quality code, reviewing code, debugging issues, and owning implementation details. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong programming knowledge in one or more backend/general-purpose languages such as Python, Java, Go/Golang, C++, Scala, Kotlin, or C#. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Language should not be the only filter — coding fundamentals, system design depth, distributed systems exposure, and ability to build production-scale systems are more important. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience building and operating scalable backend/platform systems in production. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Good understanding of system design, API design, databases, data modeling, concurrency, observability, and production troubleshooting. Ability to independently own well-defined to moderately ambiguous technical problems from design to execution, launch, and iteration. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Comfortable working in a fast-paced product engineering environment with changing priorities and high ownership. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong collaboration skills with Product, Infra, Platform, and Engineering stakeholders. Good product judgment and ability to understand how engineering decisions impact customers and business outcomes. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to contribute to design reviews, code reviews, technical discussions, and team quality. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">For AI Platform specifically, practical curiosity or exposure to AI agents, LLM infrastructure, agentic workflows, ML/data infrastructure, inference pipelines, evaluations, automation systems, or adjacent AI systems is a strong plus. </span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What would be nice to have:</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"> </span></p><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Prior experience in a high-growth or hyper-growth startup / product-led technology company. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Recent hands-on exposure to AI agents, LLM tooling, AI infrastructure, automation platforms, evaluation systems, or data/ML pipelines. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong knowledge of Python for AI/ML infrastructure, automation, agents, scripting, evaluations, or data pipelines. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong SQL knowledge for querying, data-heavy systems, analytics, workflow systems, reporting, and enterprise intelligence use cases. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with Go, Java, C++, or Scala in backend, platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems environments. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Exposure to TypeScript / JavaScript if the role involves full-stack, internal tooling, dashboards, or product surface ownership. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with workflow orchestration, background automation, reliability platforms, internal tools, or developer productivity platforms. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Exposure to permissions, approvals, auditability, compliance, or security-sensitive workflows. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Prior exposure to fintech, HR tech, payroll, benefits, compliance, IT, enterprise SaaS, or workflow-heavy platforms. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Clear evidence of learning quickly, taking ownership, and operating well in ambiguous environments. </span></li></ul><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Technical Skills:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;\"><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">5–8 years of strong software engineering experience Preferably in backend, platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, or product engineering. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">60% hands-on coding is non-negotiable Candidate must be actively writing, reviewing, debugging, and owning production code. This is not a coordination-only or design-only role. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong coding ability in at least one backend/general-purpose language </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Preferred languages: Python, Java, Go/Golang, C++, Scala, Kotlin, or C#. Scalable backend/platform systems exposure </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Should have worked on production systems involving APIs, databases, reliability, observability, debugging, and scale. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ownership mindset Should be able to independently own features/components end-to-end, work through moderate ambiguity, and drive execution without constant hand-holding. </span></li><li style=\"font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong learning agility and AI/platform curiosity For AI Platform, candidate should show practical curiosity or exposure to AI agents, LLM infrastructure, automation systems, ML/data infra, inference, evaluations, or adjacent AI systems.</span></li></ul>","datePosted":"2026-06-17T05:38:56.659000+00:00","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Rippling","sameAs":"http://www.rippling.com/careers/open-roles"},"jobLocation":[{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Bangalore","addressRegion":"KA","addressCountry":"IN"}}],"url":"https://ats.rippling.com/rippling/jobs/8d348367-72ad-49d7-a06d-19d691f01069","directApply":true,"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"Rippling Recruiting","value":"8d348367-72ad-49d7-a06d-19d691f01069"}}}