Gusto · 19 hours ago
Retirement AI Senior Staff Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$213K/yr - $236K/yr
10+ years expGusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy by handling essential services like payroll and HR. They are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to design and implement AI-powered features for their retirement solutions, collaborating closely with product and design teams to deliver impactful user experiences.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and ship production features that use large language models to solve real customer problems
Implement and integrate LLMs (prompting, tool loops, evaluation, monitoring, etc)
Make pragmatic architecture decisions, de-risk tricky areas, and keep the work unblocked
Partner with product and design to refine ideas, shape scope, and iterate quickly on end-to-end experiences
Collaborate with other engineering teams to integrate with existing systems and unblock dependencies
Write clear, reliable, well-tested code that ships quickly and scales well
Qualification
Required
10+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms
Hands-on experience implementing LLM-powered features (e.g., RAG flows, agents, tool loops, workflow automation with language models, etc)
Strong engineering skills (e.g., services, APIs, data flows); comfortable spending most of your time coding
Experience running or heavily contributing to a team's execution: sprints, Jira, scoping, and cross-functional coordination
Bias to action: you default to trying things, iterating, and learning, rather than getting stuck in analysis or waiting for direction
Clear communicator who can work well with product, design, and other engineering teams without needing a formal management title
Experienced with Ruby on Rails (or any comparable language), React (or any comparable library)
Benefits
Health insurance
401(k)
Stock equity
Company
Gusto
Gusto is an HR and payroll platform that simplifies complex tasks, empowering businesses to focus on what matters most.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$746.1MKey Investors
Friends & Family CapitalT. Rowe PriceAkkadian Ventures
2023-01-28Series Unknown
2022-05-12Series E· $55M
2021-08-10Series E· $175M
Leadership Team
Josh Reeves
Head of Gusto (CEO) and Co-Founder. Building Gusto for the Long Term.
Edward Kim
Co-founder and Head of Technology
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