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Staff Software Engineer

San Diego, CALIFORNIA, us💼 Full-time💰 $149,800–$149,800🗓 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-25

Core

Set technical direction for model-driven HR capabilities, agentic experiences, and conversational interfaces that interpret employee/manager intent and act on their behalf.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (AI/Agentic Systems)

Builds

Architecture, standards, and evaluation infrastructure enabling multiple teams to ship safe AI experiences.

Domain

Human Resources (HR) + Artificial Intelligence (Agentic Systems)

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

AI architecture design, agentic instruction/prompt engineering, autonomous workflow design, LLM API integration, retrieval-grounded feature development, agent orchestration, tool/function calling, structured output enforcement, model migration, entitlement-aware data handling, evaluation infrastructure (datasets, judge calibration, CI gating, drift detection), system design, API design, data modeling, testing, incident command, AI coding assistant usage.

Preferred skills

HR domain depth (case management, employee lifecycle, payroll/benefits), integration with core HR/payroll/benefits systems of record, forward deployment model experience.

Technologies

Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, LLM APIs, orchestration frameworks.

Responsibilities

Define AI architecture for the domain including agent decomposition, reasoning, context assembly, and tool exposure; establish autonomy boundaries for HR actions requiring human oversight; manage shared instruction and tool description surfaces as versioned contracts; own evaluation infrastructure including golden datasets and drift detection; ensure production quality and safety regarding hallucinations and injection vectors; define AI-assisted engineering standards; perform hands-on work for hard integrations and risky migrations; partner with product, engineering, and design to co-create scalable AI solutions.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with technical direction scope

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