Hiring: Head of Engineering, AI Platform Company: Gusto Location: San Francisco Bay Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:47:59 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : LLM, RAG, REST, Vercel About the job Experience: •12+ years in engineering, including at least 5 leading through other managers and tech leads. You've grown other leaders and empowered them to run their teams. Required Skills: •Gusto is building AI agents that help small business owners get work done, whether by working alongside them or by automating their work entirely. AI Platform is the group that builds those agents and the underlying platform they run on, which other teams across Gusto also use to build agents of their own. •It's already a highly cross-functional group, with product managers, designers, and data scientists working as part of the team alongside the engineers. It partners with product and AI/ML science teams across the rest of Gusto, and reports to the Head of Engineering, Core Experiences. •You'll lead the group's technical strategy for building agents that assist and automate work for small business owners, and ensuring they're built on a platform other teams at Gusto can use. •Set the technical direction and roadmap for the group, including the ongoing question of what the shared platform should own and what product teams build for themselves as more of the company comes to rely on it. •Lead and empower the managers and tech leads in the group, supporting those already in place, hiring ahead of the group's growth, and building strong leadership for each of the teams as they take shape. •Set the engineering standards for how agents behave, treating prompts, tools, and policies as production code and owning the evaluation and guardrail approach that keeps these non-deterministic systems reliable and cost-aware. •Work closely with the product and data science partners in the group, and with the teams across Gusto that build on the platform, so that it meets their needs and becomes the way teams build agents across the company. •Represent AI engineering to senior leadership, and keep the group's work connected to Gusto's broader AI strategy. Compensation: •$274,000 - $305,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!