Senior AI Enablement Engineer, People, Justworks (New York)

Justworks combines HR software with human support to run payroll, benefits and compliance for small businesses. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues.

Key responsibilities

• Building the Core AI & Automation Layer (~50%)
• Drive the technical execution of the People team's AI transformation roadmap—architecting, building
• Build agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and system integrations required to scale workflows from ‘Human + AI handoffs’ to ‘AI as a system’ level
• Scan externally for emerging AI capabilities and market patterns; translate signal into written briefs that inform what the team experiments on next
• Embed long-term operational success by creating reproducible blueprints, demos, and guides that naturally transfer expertise
• Data Layer & AI Reliability (~25%)

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional, hands-on builder/software engineering experience
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building with LLMs and AI tooling in production: agent frameworks, pipelines, retrieval systems
• Familiarity with LLM observability tooling (LangSmith, Datadog LLM monitoring, or equivalent): you instrument what you build
• Systems-level understanding of data retrieval with comfort working with vector embeddings and combining structured data, such as Snowflake tables
• Strong working knowledge of data privacy standards, including experience building audit trails, role-based permissions
• Familiarity with HR/People systems such as Workday or Greenhouse is a meaningful plus, but not required

Location and schedule

• Onsite in New York, New York

Salary and benefits

US base salary $166,000 to $214,000 a year. Justworks offers benefits, wellness programmes and company retreats.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.