Plaid · 21 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer - AI
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$203K/yr - $330K/yrPlaid is a FinTech company dedicated to transforming the way people interact with their finances. The Staff Software Engineer - AI will lead projects focused on integrating AI capabilities into Plaid's products, enhancing customer experiences, and collaborating with other engineers to develop innovative solutions.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Work with other AI engineers, software engineers and machine learning engineers to architect, design and implement GenAI-powered products and features
Collaborate across functions to understand user needs, propose and implement AI-powered solutions where they’re expected to have the highest impact
Design and execute rapid experiments to push the boundaries on potential business impact from emerging AI capabilities, with a focus on minimal viable testing approaches
Balance creative exploration of possibilities with rigorous evaluation of technical feasibility, product potential and business impact
Qualification
Required
Strong SWE fundamentals (system design, APIs, etc.)
Hands-on experience working with LLMs to build products and shipping them to product with iterating with real user feedback - including but not limited to: Prompt engineering, Fine-tuning, Retrieval augmented generation (RAG), Semantic search - vector database and embedding models, Agent orchestration framework, Evaluation and monitoring framework of open-ended tasks, Streaming and SSE, Common UX and design patterns for GenAI-powered products
Strong debugging and monitoring experience for production systems
Ability to deeply understand customer and user needs through user research and rapid experimentation - be your own technical PM
Ability to balance divergent thinking (exploring possibilities) with convergent thinking (evaluating feasibility), which is critical for driving 0 ->1 projects
Extremely curious and passionate about working in GenAI applications space
Preferred
Experience training and/or serving ML models in production, or fine-tuning LLMs for domain-specific use cases
Comfortable operating in privacy/PII-sensitive environments and applying compliance mitigations
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k)
Company
Plaid
Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data.
Founded in 2013
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (41)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.31BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonAltimeter CapitalGoldman Sachs Investment Partners
2025-04-03Series Unknown· $575M
2025-04-03Secondary Market
2023-10-19Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Zachary Perret
Co-Founder & CEO
Eric Sager
COO
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