Staff Software Engineer

Join our team as a Staff Software Engineer in HRSD, where you will set the technical direction for model-driven capabilities across the HR domain. You will own the architecture, standards, and evaluation infrastructure that allows multiple teams to safely ship experiences. This role requires a strong command of system design, APIs, data modeling, and testing, as well as experience in the HR domain.

• Set the technical direction for model-driven capability across the HR domain, focusing on agentic and conversational experiences.
• Own the architecture, standards, and evaluation infrastructure that allow multiple teams to ship experiences safely.
• Make decisions regarding the autonomy boundary, determining which HR actions an agent may take and which require human intervention.

• Effective, accountable use of AI coding assistants and agents
• Evaluation experience used by engineers other than yourself: dataset curation, judge calibration, CI gating, drift detection
• Strong command of system design, APIs, data modeling, and testing across front-end, server-side, and relational data work with a high quality mindset
• On-call and incident-command experience on customer-facing systems, including ownership of the systemic fixes that followed
• Production experience with LLM APIs, retrieval-grounded features, agent orchestration, tool and function calling, and structured output enforcement — including at least one model or orchestration migration carried through production
• Direct, hands-on experience authoring agentic instructions and prompts, designing autonomous workflows, and building the evaluation that verifies them
• Entitlement-aware data handling: per-user access enforcement in retrieval and tool layers, scope separation between roles, and handling of restricted records under audit
• Bachelor's degree in CS, software engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of software engineering, with a record of technical direction adopted beyond your immediate team
• Experience in software stack including Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, React and demonstrated ability to quickly learn new tools and frameworks
• HR domain depth: case management, employee journey and lifecycle, or payroll/benefits/leave/absence sufficient to set requirements
• Integration with core HR, payroll, or benefits systems of record, including reconciliation and eventual-consistency patterns
• Contribution in a Forward deployment model to champion customer adoption