People AI & Automation Engineer
About The Position
Deepgram is seeking an early-career engineer to join their People Operations team. This role will partner directly with the Head of People to identify, design, and build AI-powered workflows that will transform how People Operations functions. The engineer will focus on automating manual, repetitive, and high-friction People processes by leveraging AI, automation, APIs, internal tools, and agents. This position requires collaboration across People, Engineering, IT, and other departments to create secure, scalable solutions that enable employees and managers to find answers and complete tasks without direct People team intervention. It is a hands-on role for individuals passionate about building, experimenting, and enhancing work efficiency.
Requirements
- AI-first mindset: AI use and comfort are core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance.
- Comfortable adopting new models and modes quickly.
- Ability to integrate AI into workflows.
- Willingness to continuously push the boundaries of AI technologies.
- Excited to experiment, adapt, think on your feet, and learn constantly.
- Early-career engineer.
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with the People & Talent Team to identify high-impact opportunities to apply AI and automation across People Operations.
- Build an AI-first onboarding experience that is scalable, up to date, and provides an exceptional experience.
- Turn manual People workflows into automated, AI-powered systems.
- Build AI agents and workflows that can answer questions, gather information, initiate processes, and complete defined actions.
- Integrate AI systems with existing tools, including HRIS, Slack, recruiting, performance, compensation, and other internal systems.
- Build internal tools and interfaces that make People processes dramatically easier for employees, managers, and the People team.
- Prototype quickly, test with real users, learn from what works, and iterate.
- Establish appropriate human-in-the-loop controls, escalation paths, permissions, and safeguards for sensitive People workflows.
- Partner with Engineering and IT on architecture, security, access controls, and productionizing successful prototypes.
- Measure whether what you build actually saves time, improves the employee experience, or increases the quality and consistency of People Operations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
