# Product Lead, Rippling AI – Agent Harness & Runtime

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $174k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Agent Runtime, Agentic Systems, Distributed Systems, State Machines, Tool Orchestration, Context Management, RAG, Episodic Memory, OAuth, Sandbox Isolation, Observability, Evaluation Design, Fine-Tuning, Reinforcement Learning, Acls
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Own the product direction and architecture for Rippling’s production agent harness, memory systems, self-improvement loop, and execution infrastructure. The role requires a software engineering background, 5+ years of combined experience, and hands-on experience shipping agentic systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and product direction for Rippling’s agent harness and runtime, including planning, tool calls, result interpretation, retries, escalation, and guardrails.
- Define working memory, episodic memory, context boundaries, persistence, compaction, and intentional forgetting.
- Build the self-improvement loop through evaluations, trajectory review, and counterfactual benchmarking.
- Define improvement metrics including task completion, human-escalation rate, cost and latency per completed task, and evaluation regressions.
- Guide sandboxing, execution environments, permission tiers, connector ACLs, credential handling, and observability.
- Extend the platform into computer-use and autonomous web/research capabilities.
- Make runtime architecture build-versus-buy decisions and write technical design documents.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of combined experience, including experience as a software engineer and product manager.
- Production experience building or shipping agentic systems.
- Experience shipping production systems, debugging distributed systems, and reasoning about state machines and failure modes.
- Ability to distinguish agent frameworks from production agent harnesses and runtimes.
- Strong expertise designing evaluations and benchmarks that predict production behavior.
- Working knowledge of context-window management, tool orchestration, RAG, semantic and episodic memory, OAuth grant types, sandbox isolation, reinforcement learning, fine-tuning, and non-parametric adaptation.
- Comfortable collaborating with senior engineers and independently authoring technical design documents.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: $174,000–$290,000, plus benefits and equity.

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