AI Platform Engineer for People Ops & HR

Affirm; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 195,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedule

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Affirm in Washington, D.C. seeks a hands-on engineer to build and maintain AI systems for the People function. The role blends software engineering with stakeholder collaboration, focusing on creating production applications from complex business problems.

You will own the architecture and lifecycle of AI agents and applications, navigate security and data governance, and work within a small, fast-paced team. This position offers remote work flexibility and requires strong technical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience building and deploying production applications.
• Understanding of APIs, databases, and deployment pipelines.
• Experience in creating systems or tools autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship AI agents, APIs, and applications on Affirm's internal platform.
• Integrate business requirements from stakeholders into production systems.
• Design reliability infrastructure for AI services.
• Work with non-technical stakeholders to scope and translate problems onto technical requirements.

Skills

Software engineering foundation

Systems thinking and technical architecture

Builder disposition

Ability to work across technical-business boundary

Tools

Python

Git/GitHub

Snowflake

Job description

Affirm in Washington, D.C. seeks a hands-on engineer to build and maintain AI systems for the People function. The role blends software engineering with stakeholder collaboration, focusing on creating production applications from complex business problems.

You will own the architecture and lifecycle of AI agents and applications, navigate security and data governance, and work within a small, fast-paced team. This position offers remote work flexibility and requires strong technical and communication skills.