About the role
Rippling is building core parts of Rippling AI and the AI Platform. These foundational systems will support AI capabilities across Payroll, Benefits, HR Products, Talent, Spend, IT, Data Cloud, and other product areas.
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will own broad, ambiguous, high-impact technical charters across AI platform infrastructure. Key areas include harness engineering, eval frameworks, model-related infrastructure, selective model training work, sandboxing, scaling, latency, reliability, background agents, and enterprise intelligence systems.
The team is looking for extremely robust, hands-on engineers. AI/ML background is a strong plus, but not mandatory. The strongest signal is deep backend/systems engineering foundation, high intellectual horsepower, ability to move fast in ambiguity, and willingness to design, review, debug, and write code regularly.

What you will do
Own broad AI Platform charters across multiple systems and teams.
Lead architecture and execution for foundational systems supporting AI capabilities across Rippling.




Build and guide work across AI platform infrastructure, harness engineering, eval frameworks, model-related infrastructure, sandboxing, scaling, latency, and reliability.
Support AI capabilities across Payroll, Benefits, HR Products, Talent, Spend, IT, and Data Cloud.
Lead without formal authority while staying deeply connected to execution.
Write code, review critical code paths, debug complex production issues, prototype solutions, and make implementation-level decisions.
Partner with Product, Infra, Platform, AI, and senior engineering stakeholders to convert ambiguous AI/product bets into scalable systems.
Mentor Staff, Senior, and SE II engineers while raising engineering standards across design, coding, debugging, reliability, and operational excellence.
Define technical patterns and platform primitives that can be reused by product teams across Rippling.
Help shape the long-term technical foun

📌 Senior Staff Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Rippling
📍 Bengaluru