HRIS & Talent Acquisition Systems/Tools Engineer

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

HRIS & Talent Acquisition Systems/Tools Engineer

We are looking for a Developer who focuses entirely on recruiting systems, tools, and infrastructure. This person will sit at the intersection of engineering, Talent Acquisition, and HRIS, and will own how our recruiting tech stack works end to end.
They will translate recruiter and candidate pain into scalable solutions, design automations that remove manual work and elevate solutions to drive time to fill, candidate experience, and recruiter productivity. If they hate inefficiency, and can talk to engineers and recruiters in the same hour, they will be happy here.

You are successful in this role when recruiting leaders see you as their product and engineering partner, not just their technical support.

Outcomes

In this role, you will

• Architect for scale in enterprise system with the use of Cursor, EnterpriseChatGPT, and other productivity tools.

• Drive greater recruiter efficiency by reducing manual work and tool switching, freeing recruiters to focus on high value activities

• Enable smarter decision making through end-to-end insights that show ROI, support tradeoffs, and guide investment and disinvestment in tools and processes

• Support tech-forward growth so that new regions, teams, and tools can be onboarded without reinventing processes each time

• Detect inefficiencies early by spotting bottlenecks and redundancies before they impact recruiters or candidates and eliminate repetitive tasks

• Provide insights on systems health that cover adoption, error rates, and automation impact

• Incorporate recruiter feedback into system design and proactively propose solutions, not just administer the tool

This role is based out of Boston, MA location and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.

Key responsibilities

System and automation development

• Design, build, and maintain automations and integrations across ATS, HRIS, scheduling tools, assessment tools, and internal platforms

• Implement and maintain data flows between recruiting systems and HR or business reporting environments as needed in partnership with HRIS data analytics

• Ensure systems are configured to support global recruiting processes, compliance requirements, and reporting needs

• Own JIRA workflows for Talent Acquisition and HR technical work, including clear requirements, ticket hygiene, and delivery tracking

Product ownership for recruiting tools

• Act as technical product owner for the recruiting tech stack

• Translate recruiter and candidate pain points into clear technical requirements

• Evaluate new tools and features, run pilots, and give clear recommendations on what to adopt, scale, or retire

• Maintain a roadmap of improvements across systems and automations based on impact and effort

System health, analytics, and dashboards

• Define and track key health metrics for recruiting systems such as adoption, latency, error rates, time in stage, automation success, and data quality

• Deliver quarterly system health reports and narratives for TA leadership

• Partner with analytics and people data teams

Stakeholder partnership and change enablement

• Partner with TA leadership, Recruiting Ops PM, and HRIS to design processes that actually work in tools, not just in slide decks

• Run discovery and ongoing communication mechanisms with recruiters, hiring managers, leaders and coordinators to understand friction, bottlenecks, and workarounds

• Communicate tradeoffs clearly and set expectations on what can be automated and what still needs human judgment

• Support rollouts through documentation, training material, and office hours when needed or if required on technical specs

Required qualifications

• Strong experience as a Developer, Systems Engineer, or similar technical role working with business systems

• Hands on experience with HRIS or ATS systems such as Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, Lever, or similar

• Experience building integrations and automations using APIs, webhooks, and orchestration tools

• Comfort working in and owning JIRA boards and workflows for cross functional teams

• Strong data skills

• Ability to gather requirements from non-technical stakeholders and translate them into clear technical solutions

• Proven track record of shipping useful features and improvements in a fast-moving environment

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related field

Preferred qualifications

• Prior experience in Talent Acquisition, HR Tech, People Analytics, or Recruiting Operations environments

• Experience with global recruiting processes and compliance needs across multiple regions

• Familiarity with common recruiting metrics such as time to fill, funnel conversion, source performance, and recruiter capacity

• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and prevention for system issues

Who you are

• You are obsessed with eliminating manual, repetitive work

• You think in systems and can see how data and workflows connect across tools

• You listen carefully to recruiters and hiring managers (customers) and can separate the symptom from the root cause and then you build ideas and solutions to address.

• You are comfortable saying no and offering better options when a request is not scalable

• You care about outcomes such as recruiter productivity, candidate experience, and speed, not just completing tickets

• You thrive with the autonomy to consult on a solution, rather than just executing a plan

Systems Touched/Owned by Developer

• Workday

• Greenhouse (& API’s into each of the tools)

• Brighthire

• Modernloop

• Codility

• LinkedIn

• Checkr (Background checks)

Don’t meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Important Notes

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.

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