Gusto

Sr. Staff AI/ML Engineer responsible for designing, building, and scaling the AI platform that empowers Gusto's internal teams to build intelligent agents and deliver customer value. This includes developing core platform capabilities such as agent orchestration, RAG infrastructure, eval tooling, model serving, prompt management, observability, and safety guardrails. The role involves owning the full lifecycle from problem framing to production deployment, ensuring the platform is reliable, performant, and easy to adopt. The Staff MLE will also shape technical standards, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineers.

The AI Solutions Architect will design, prototype, deploy, and continuously improve AI-driven agentic workflows for service operations at Gusto. This role involves architecting end-to-end agentic service workflow frameworks, designing multi-agent orchestration patterns, and influencing AI platform capabilities. The architect will also ensure AI governance, translate CX quality stakes, and strengthen evaluation frameworks, working closely with Engineering, CX, Legal, and Compliance.

Gusto is seeking a Head of AI-Native Talent Systems to redesign how people grow within an AI-native company. This role focuses on building systems for onboarding, feedback, performance reviews, and promotions, using AI as a practical tool for reflection, coaching, and skill-building. The goal is to make growth obvious, continuous, and integrated into the flow of work, ultimately creating an AI-powered environment where development is a natural byproduct of doing the job.

This role is for a Legal AI Engineer on a fixed-term contract to build foundational AI infrastructure for a legal team. The engineer will design, implement, and document AI systems and workflows, including a structured knowledge layer and AI-assisted processes for contract review and matter intake. The goal is to turn experiments into robust, shared systems that can be maintained internally after the engagement.

Principal Data Scientist on the Payments team at Gusto, focusing on integrating AI into financial infrastructure. The role involves owning payments intelligence, driving experimentation, building predictive models for failure and risk, and developing AI-native data products. Requires strong SQL, Python, experimentation expertise, and experience with payments domain knowledge. The role emphasizes building AI as a core component and responsible AI use in a regulated financial context.

Manager role focused on building AI-powered compliance systems from scratch, involving designing architecture, deploying and managing AI agents for various compliance use cases, and ensuring human oversight. The role requires hands-on experience with AI tools, agent orchestration, prompt engineering, and operating within a regulated fintech environment.

Seeking a seasoned engineering leader to manage a product development team focused on leveraging AI for payroll infrastructure. The role involves supporting existing core products, advancing AI integration across the product portfolio and SDLC, and transforming shared services like DevOps and QA to be AI-native. The goal is to drive innovation, increase engineering velocity, and ensure AI is a key differentiator.

This role focuses on integrating AI and automation into Gusto's enterprise applications, specifically designing and managing AI agents and Model Context Protocols (MCPs) to make internal systems smarter and more autonomous. The goal is to transform reactive workflows into predictive, self-improving platforms, ensuring security, compliance, and measurable impact within the IT and Enterprise Applications organization.