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Senior Engineering Manager, AI Platform

Rippling· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$207k - $345kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager leading the AI Platform Infrastructure team responsible for core systems powering Rippling AI, including retrieval systems, reasoning loops, observability, memory, tooling, and execution environments; focuses on production-grade AI platforms and developer infrastructure to enable hundreds of engineers and AI-powered products.

Responsibilities

  • 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 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.

Qualifications

  • 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

Required:Distributed systemsEngineering leadershipSystems design

Benefits

  • competitive salary + benefits + equity
  • office-based role with in-office requirement (essential function of the role for those within defined radius)
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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