3 days ago
Lowell, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$146k - $209k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define enterprise-wide technical strategy and long-term vision for agentic AI across UKG’s HCM platform.
- Architect foundational agentic AI frameworks, orchestration patterns, and platform capabilities serving multiple product teams.
- Drive technical decisions, standards, safety practices, and architectural adoption across multiple teams and divisions.
- Build advanced multi-agent architectures, including hierarchical systems, swarm intelligence, adversarial networks, and hybrid human-agent workflows.
- Evaluate emerging agentic AI platforms and techniques, prototype new capabilities, and contribute to publications, open source, or conferences.
- Establish organization-wide agent safety, governance, policy engine, guardrail, and responsible AI frameworks.
- Design integrations, strategic tools, APIs, and MCP servers connecting agents to UKG’s enterprise ecosystem.
- Define monitoring, observability, incident response, reliability, quality, and cost-efficiency standards for agentic systems.
- Mentor senior engineers, lead engineers, and engineering managers through reviews, guidance, and technical leadership development.
- Represent UKG externally and engage with technology partners including Google and Anthropic.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of professional software development experience, including 3+ years building production-scale agentic AI systems or LLM-powered applications.
- Deep expertise in Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, or TypeScript, with experience setting coding standards and best practices.
- Experience architecting and building production agents using Google ADK, Anthropic Claude SDK, LangChain, LangGraph, or similar platforms.
- Expert understanding of prompt engineering, context engineering, and advanced agent design patterns such as ReAct, Chain-of-Thought, constitutional AI, and multi-agent collaboration.
- Experience influencing technical direction and setting architectural standards across multiple teams or organizations.
- Ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives with significant business impact.
- Deep expertise with GCP, Vertex AI, Google ADK, Azure, Azure OpenAI, or AWS Bedrock, along with modern DevOps practices.
- Exceptional problem-solving, systems thinking, communication, leadership, and influence skills across senior stakeholders and executive audiences.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across organizations.
Benefits
- UKG offers real flexibility and benefits designed to support employees.
- The role includes opportunities for technical leadership, external thought leadership, research, open source, conference participation, and strategic technology partnerships.
- The stated compensation package may also include performance-based bonuses and restricted stock unit awards.
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About UKG
UKG builds cloud software for human capital and workforce management—HR, payroll, timekeeping, and scheduling—sold as SaaS to mid‑size and large employers. Formed in 2020 by the merger of Ultimate Software and Kronos, it is privately held by Hellman & Friedman and has dual headquarters in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Weston, Florida. Its platform helps organizations handle pay, compliance, and workforce planning across industries.