CareerPlan

Distinguished Platform Engineer

Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA, usFull-time$279k–$488k2026-11-05 → 2026-11-10

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

Distinguished Platform Engineer (AI Architecture & Evaluation)

Builds

Architecture, standards, and evaluation infrastructure for multi-team AI agent deployments in the HR domain.

Domain

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

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

AI architecture design, agentic instruction/prompt engineering, autonomous workflow design, LLM API integration, retrieval-grounded features, agent orchestration, tool/function calling, structured output enforcement, model migration, entitlement-aware data handling, evaluation dataset curation, judge calibration, drift detection, system design, API design, data modeling, testing, incident command, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, React

Preferred skills

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

Technologies

LLM APIs, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, React

Responsibilities

Define AI architecture for the domain including agent decomposition, reasoning, context assembly, and tool exposure; Establish autonomy boundaries and human-in-the-loop mechanisms for sensitive HR actions; Manage shared instruction and tool description surfaces as versioned contracts; Own evaluation infrastructure including golden datasets, CI gates, and drift detection; Ensure production quality and safety via observability for hallucinations and injection vectors; Define AI-assisted engineering standards and verification harnesses; Execute hands-on hard integrations, risky migrations, and critical prototypes.

Seniority

Distinguished, hands-on IC with strategic direction