Justworks

SeniorAIEngineer

$175–245k ~AI est. New York, New York, United States
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior AI Engineer at Justworks. Skills: AI Engineering, LLM Infrastructure, Production Systems. Identify AI leverage. Define AI builds”

What You'll Achieve.

Achieve step-change improvements; Transfer AI to teams; Ship AI solutions

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Manage complexity; Critical thinking; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

6+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years building with LLMs, Experience designing and running evals, Track record of working across functions, Written and verbal communication skills, Comfort with ambiguity

Nice to Have

Practical machine learning experience

What You'll Do.

Scan for AI capabilities

Translate signal into briefs

Build AI-powered tools

Design evaluation frameworks

Instrument AI systems

Navigate ownership dynamics

Identify stakeholders

Hand off AI solutions

Represent AI Frontiers

Perform related responsibilities

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional ownership; Cross-functional forums; Executive reviews

Communication Scope

Written briefs; Verbal communication; Executive presentations

Process & Methodology

Scoping, Planning

Full Job Description

Who We Are At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you. We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team. Our Values If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. Department Data you center the customer even when you're building internal tooling. Justworks is looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join AI Frontiers, a small internal consultancy that finds where AI creates step-change improvements across the company — builds the thing, gets it to production, and transfers it to the team that will own it. You'll move across business functions as a functional accelerator, resolve AI-specific systems gaps nobody else is moving on, and read what's emerging externally before it becomes obvious inside. You build, prove the pattern, and hand off. Technical execution is table stakes. The harder skill is navigating ownership, alignment, and organizational complexity while still shipping. Your Success Profile What You Will Work On Drop into business functions to identify where AI has the highest leverage, define what to build, and own the full arc from scoping through handoff Spot and resolve AI-specific systems gaps across the org - missing shared infrastructure, fragmented adoption patterns, absent measurement benchmarks - and move on them faster than the rest of the org could Scan externally for emerging AI capa

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