We are looking for an Applied AI Architect, People and Culture to join our team. This is a Santa Clara based hybrid role (in office Tuesday-Thursday), reporting to the AI Transformation Director in the Global HR department. HR is being transformed around Human + AI optimization, and you will be the driving force behind this transformation. Part builder, part co-builder, and part teacher, you will spearhead our transition to an AI-native HR function by encoding the judgment of our best practitioners into safe, governed agents that seamlessly integrate with human ingenuity to unlock unprecedented outcomes.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

• Design, deploy, and continuously improve the most impactful and high-risk agents using Gemini agent builder, Claude, Codex, and MCP integrations, owning the full maturity path from initial prototype to a hardened, governed product
• Pair deeply with subject matter experts—from compensation analysts to recruiters—to build domain-specific agents, transferring your technical craft so they can independently maintain and evolve their own tools
• Redesign workflows from the inside out to ensure we solve fundamental process issues rather than simply automating a broken system
• Operate what you ship as a true product owner by monitoring adoption, diagnosing failures, and guiding stakeholders to turn skeptics into sponsors
• Partner closely with the AI Center of Excellence and Forward Deployed Engineering team to solve the hardest technical integration challenges on shared rails, as well as co-create mature governance standards

Who You Are (Success Profile)

• You are a “Figure-it-out” person who navigates ambiguity with ease and addresses fundamental process issues rather than bolting AI onto the current state
• You are technically fluent and a proven builder with a portfolio of shipped, adopted GenAI agents, hands-on with skills, MCPs, data, automations, prompt design, and evals
• You are a force multiplier who teaches as you work, measuring your success by the new capabilities you leave behind in others
• You are a champion of adoption and change management who brings stakeholders along and ensures deployments stick in real-world applications
• You are deeply aware of the risks associated with people data, building with care while defining the long-term playbook for an AI-native HR function

What We’re Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• 6+ years across HR technology, people operations, solutions, or business transformation roles
• Demonstrated hands-on experience building AI agents, automations, or tools that changed how real work gets done
• Technical fluency sufficient to design agents architecture and instructions, work with MCPs and governance systems, and evaluate outputs at the system level without needing engineering handholding.
• Track record of taking solutions from problem identification through real adoption while simultaneously upskilling others through training, enablement, or sustained co-working
• Highly autonomous, self-directed, and comfortable operating as a senior individual contributor in a domain being invented in real time

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Sit at the rare intersection of engineering depth and HR practice, ensuring we avoid both technically correct agents that the field ignores and HR prototypes that do not scale
• Possess a deep understanding of how to balance cutting-edge agent building with the practical realities, risks, and sensitivities of HR operations
• Drawn to early-stage, high-impact opportunities and eager to be a primary author of the playbook for AI-native HR

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