Staff Developer, AI Experience

About the role

The Staff Developer, AI Experience is a senior hands-on engineering role within Dayforce's Engineering team. This role focuses on building the systems, standards, workflows, and reusable development capabilities that enable engineers to work more effectively with AI-assisted and agentic coding tools.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve reusable skill design patterns and coding artifact standards that drive AI-assisted development effectiveness across Engineering.
• Define how agent context is structured, scoped, and maintained across repositories, toolchains, and delivery pipelines.
• Establish practical guardrails and standards that reduce failure modes and support responsible AI-assisted development adoption.
• Build and maintain reusable AI agent skills, workflows, templates, scaffolding, and implementation guides.
• Define production-readiness standards for reusable skills including contracts, triggers, evaluation coverage, failure handling, and documentation.
• Partner directly with development teams to operationalize AI-assisted workflows in repositories, testing practices, and engineering delivery processes.
• Establish standards for emerging engineering artifacts such as AI-assisted specifications, implementation plans, and workflow patterns.
• Define evaluation and adoption criteria for scalable AI engineering capabilities including reliability, engineering value, and maintainability.
• Build data-driven visibility into AI-assisted development outcomes and ROI across Engineering.
• Define scalable implementation standards that support consistent and lightweight AI engineering adoption.
• Partner with internal platform teams and external vendors on tooling integration, feedback, and capability evolution.
• Help establish and evolve the AI Engineering enablement operating model including priorities, success metrics, and organizational scaling strategies.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with experience delivering and operating complex production systems.
• Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools and AI-assisted development workflows on real engineering problems.
• Experience implementing developer workflows across repositories, testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and delivery processes.
• Experience with context engineering including prompts, retrieval strategies, memory/state patterns, and LLM tooling configurations.
• Experience designing reusable agent skills with defined contracts, evaluation coverage, and operational safeguards.
• Demonstrated ability to define engineering standards, guardrails, and evaluation frameworks that improve consistency and quality across teams.
• Experience partnering directly with development teams to implement shared engineering practices.
• Strong technical judgment distinguishing scalable engineering practices from experimental concepts.
• Experience working across organizational boundaries to improve engineering effectiveness and implementation consistency.
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to translate emerging technical practices into actionable engineering guidance.

Skills

• Experience building AI engineering enablement programs at scale.
• Strong understanding of LLM evaluation methodologies and operational reliability patterns.
• Experience designing enterprise AI developer platforms or reusable internal tooling ecosystems.
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering standards and adoption across large organizations.
• Strong understanding of balancing experimentation, governance, scalability, and developer productivity in AI-assisted engineering environments.

Benefits

Dayforce is committed to providing a fair, equitable, and competitive package that reflects the value an individual brings to the organization. Our company is dedicated to supporting our employees' personal and professional growth. We offer excellent time away from work programs, comprehensive wellness initiatives, and recognition through competitive pay and benefits. Additionally, we provide opportunities for you to thrive both in your career and personal life. Our focus is not just on your job but on supporting you to be the best version of yourself.

Pay

Please note that the salary range mentioned in this job description should serve simply as a guide. The final compensation offered may vary based on a variety of factors, including bonuses and/or incentives, or a candidate’s experience, skills, budget and location. Our company is committed to providing a fair, equitable, and competitive package that reflects the value an individual brings to the organization.

Schedule

Details regarding the schedule will be provided upon interview.