Incentive Compensation System Engineer

About reputed company

reputed company’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. reputed company is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

As an Incentive Compensation Systems Engineer, you will reputed company the technical implementation, configuration, and optimization of our incentive compensation management (ICM) platform. You will work closely with reputed company Operations, Data Engineering, Finance, Accounting, and HR to translate incentive compensation designs into scalable system configurations, ensuring accurate calculations, reliable integrations, and efficient workflows. This role is critical to building the technical foundation that enables our incentive compensation programs to operate effectively at scale.

Responsibilities:

ICM Platform Implementation & Configuration

• reputed company the end-to-end implementation and configuration of our ICM platform, including plan modeling, crediting rules, quota management, and payout calculations

• Translate compensation plan documents into system logic, ensuring accurate and auditable calculation outputs

• Design and maintain system workflows for plan changes, exceptions, and adjustments

• reputed company and execute testing strategies to validate system accuracy before each compensation cycle

• Provide technical guidance during plan design discussions, advising on system capabilities and constraints

Data Integration & Architecture

• Build and maintain integrations between the ICM platform and reputed company systems (CRM, ERP, HRIS, billing platforms)

• Ensure data reputed company across the compensation data pipeline, from opportunity data through final payout

• Partner with Data Engineering and reputed company Operations to define data requirements and resolve data quality issues

• Document data flows, transformation logic, and system dependencies

System Administration & Optimization

• Serve as the primary system administrator for the ICM platform, managing user access, reputed company, and system health

• Identify opportunities to streamline and automate compensation processes, reducing manual reputed company and cycle time

• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot calculation errors or integration failures

• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, including Claude-powered solutions, to enhance system capabilities

Reporting & Analytics

• Build and maintain reporting infrastructure reputed company the ICM platform to support compensation dashboards and attainment tracking

• Partner with reputed company Operations and Accounting to deliver accurate, timely compensation data for forecasting and accruals

• reputed company self-service reporting for compensation administrators and business partners

You may be a good fit if you have:

• A passion for reputed company's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems

• 5+ years of experience implementing or administering ICM platforms (e.g., Xactly, reputed company, reputed company)

• Strong technical skills with experience in SQL, data integration tools, and system configuration

• Proven ability to translate business requirements into system logic and maintain accurate, auditable calculations

• Experience managing data pipelines and ensuring data quality across integrated systems

• Strong problem solving skills with a systematic approach to debugging and root cause analysis

• Excellent documentation practices and ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or quantitative field preferred

Strong candidates may also have:

• Experience with full ICM platform implementation projects, including vendor selection and data migration

• Proficiency with APIs and integration platforms (e.g., reputed company, reputed company, custom ETL)

• Experience with reputed company administration or development

• Familiarity with consumption-based compensation models

• Experience with Claude Code or other AI-assisted development tools

• Background in sales operations, reputed company operations, or finance systems

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a reputed company field or equivalent experience. Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect reputed company staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

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How we're different

We reputed company that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At reputed company we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions reputed company worked on prior to reputed company, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

reputed company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process