Senior Engineering Manager, AI Platform
Lead a high-impact team building foundational AI platform infrastructure at Rippling, owning retrieval systems, reasoning frameworks, observability, and scalable execution environments for AI agents and workflows. Requires 8+ years software engineering with large-scale distributed systems and 2+ years engineering management experience.
About the job
What you will do
- Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for the foundational AI platform powering Rippling AI.
- Own critical infrastructure areas including retrieval systems, search, reasoning frameworks, AI execution environments, observability, performance, and reliability.
- Drive improvements in latency, quality, scalability, and developer productivity across the AI platform.
- Build and evolve the platform capabilities that enable teams across Rippling to develop AI-powered products, agents, and automations.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to define platform strategy and prioritize investments that unlock the next generation of AI experiences.
- Lead large-scale initiatives across areas such as memory systems, automated tuning, evaluation frameworks, reporting, and AI performance optimization.
- Develop safe, scalable execution environments for AI-powered workflows, including code execution, document generation, and other agent capabilities.
- Collaborate with teams building customer-facing AI products while ensuring the underlying platform can support rapid growth and evolving use cases.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop exceptional engineers while fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and velocity.
- Help shape the long-term architecture of Rippling's AI ecosystem as the company scales toward hundreds of AI-powered workflows and experiences.
What you will need
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building large-scale distributed systems or platform infrastructure.
- 2+ years of engineering management experience leading teams delivering complex technical projects.
- Track record of leading engineers through highly ambiguous, fast-moving technical environments.
- Strong systems design and architecture experience across scalable backend platforms, infrastructure, or developer platforms.
- Experience building and operating production services with demanding requirements around reliability, performance, and observability.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Platform Infrastructure, Retrieval Systems, Ai Execution Environments, Observability, Scalable Backend Platforms, System Design, Ai Platform Architecture
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