Staff Software Engineer AI Developer Tools
Gusto is a payroll and HR platform that helps small businesses pay domestic and international employees, manage benefits, and automate compliance.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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About Gusto
Gusto serves small and mid-sized businesses with payroll processing, employee benefits administration, and HR tools in one platform. Users can run payroll, manage health insurance, hire globally, and pay international contractors in local currency or USDC stablecoins. The platform automates payroll tax filings across multiple states and integrates with tools like QuickBooks and Xero.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You architect and maintain secure AI infrastructure that integrates language models into developer workflows. You build autonomous agents, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks, code-safety guardrails, and intelligent automation while improving reliability, latency, cost, and developer productivity. You also provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and monitor production systems.
Requirements
- 8+ years of systems expertise
- Production AI experience
- Prompt engineering
- Fine-tuning
- Retrieval-augmented generation
- Multi-agent workflows
- Data privacy
- Security
- Cost management
- Distributed software
- Communication
Responsibilities
- Architect AI core infrastructure
- Design internal platforms and APIs for language-model integration
- Build autonomous agents and retrieval-augmented generation systems
- Establish AI engineering practices and evaluation frameworks
- Implement code-safety guardrails
- Optimize model latency and token spend
- Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams
- Eliminate developer productivity bottlenecks
- Monitor system health and diagnose integration issues
- Mitigate model drift and downtime
- Mentor junior engineers
Benefits
- equity (RSUs)