gusto
Retirement AI Senior Staff Engineer
At a Glance
- Location
- United States
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Posted
- 2026-02-19T13:27:34-05:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Automation
- Engineering
- Medical
Benefits & Perks
stuff—like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on
Requirements
10+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms
Hands-on experience implementing LLM-powered features (e.g., RAG flows, agents, tool loops, workflow automation with language models, etc)
Strong engineering skills (e.g., services, APIs, data flows); comfortable spending most of your time coding.
Experience running or heavily contributing to a team’s execution: sprints, Jira, scoping, and cross-functional coordination.
Bias to action: you default to trying things, iterating, and learning, rather than getting stuck in analysis or waiting for direction.
Clear communicator who can work well with product, design, and other engineering teams without needing a formal management title.
Responsibilities
You’ll be a key engineer helping us ship real, user-facing AI at Gusto Retirement. This role is all about bias to action: owning problems end-to-end, getting working software in front of customers, and iterating quickly. You’ll work closely with a small, senior team to implement language-model-powered experiences. If you like being hands-on, making pragmatic technical decisions, working closely with product & design partners, and turning ideas into production features, you’ll be a great fit.
Design, build, and ship production features that use large language models to solve real customer problems.
Implement and integrate LLMs (prompting, tool loops, evaluation, monitoring, etc).
Make pragmatic architecture decisions, de-risk tricky areas, and keep the work unblocked.
Partner with product and design to refine ideas, shape scope, and iterate quickly on end-to-end experiences.
Team
We’re a small, focused AI product team building practical, high-impact experiences to help people save for retirement at Gusto Retirement. The team is senior, collaborative, and very execution-focused—PMs bring strong ideas, and we own the execution fully. We work closely with product, design, and partner engineering teams, but keep tight ownership of our priorities and roadmap.