9 days ago
Base Salary
$146k - $241k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define enterprise-wide technical strategy and long-term vision for agentic AI across UKG’s workforce platform.
- Architect organization-wide agentic AI capabilities, foundational frameworks, orchestration patterns, and platform capabilities using Google ADK and other platforms.
- Drive technical decisions, standards, safety frameworks, tool design, and operational practices across multiple teams and divisions.
- Design advanced multi-agent systems, including hierarchical architectures, 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 enterprise frameworks for agent safety, governance, responsible AI, policy engines, guardrails, and regulatory compliance.
- Design integrations between agents and UKG’s enterprise ecosystem, including strategic tools, APIs, and MCP servers.
- Define service health, monitoring, observability, incident response, reliability, quality, and cost-efficiency standards for agentic systems.
- Mentor senior engineers, lead engineers, and engineering managers through reviews, architectural guidance, and technical leadership development.
- Represent UKG in external technical communities and partnerships with 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 agentic AI systems or LLM-powered applications in production at scale.
- Deep expertise in one or more of 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 across multiple teams or organizations and driving adoption of architectural standards.
- Ability to lead highly 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, including engagement with senior stakeholders and executives.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across organizations.
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus plan eligibility and restricted stock unit awards may be available in addition to base pay.
- UKG states that it provides flexible work arrangements and benefits, with details available through its careers benefits information.
- UKG is unable to offer sponsorship for this position.
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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.