Forward-Deployed AI Platform Engineer — Enterprise Impact

SoFi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SoFi is building an internal AI platform and seeks a Sr Staff Engineer to define what forward deployment means and shape the platform and organization that bring it to life.

You will work with the AI Platform engineering team, product leaders, and subject-matter experts to identify opportunities, onboard departments, and build durable platform capabilities. You will define playbooks, patterns, and scalable operating practices as the team scales.

Qualifications

• Deep experience building and operating sophisticated software systems at Sr Staff Engineer equivalent scope.
• Track record leading technically ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through production adoption.
• Strong product judgment and instinct for core problems behind requests.
• Experience designing applications, platforms, developer tools, workflow systems, or distributed systems.
• Practical experience building with large language models, tool use, context engineering, agents, evaluations, and human-in-the-loop patterns.

Responsibilities

• Operate as a product-minded engineer, platform architect, and hands-on builder across complex workflows.
• Partner with leaders to identify high-value opportunities to transform work with AI.
• Embed with departments to map workflows, data, and measures of success; deploy AI-enabled workflows.
• Lead departments from discovery through onboarding, adoption, and production use.
• Develop playbooks, patterns, and operating practices to scale AI enablement across the company.
• Build reusable skills, tools, integrations, agents, and workflow components on top of SoFi's internal AI platform.
• Contribute to platform enhancements when field deployments reveal missing capabilities.
• Create tight feedback loops among users, AI Enablement, product, and platform engineering.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior business and technology leaders.

Skills

Senior software engineering

Cross-functional leadership

Product judgment

Distributed systems

Large language models

Communication

Job description

SoFi is building an internal AI platform and seeks a Sr Staff Engineer to define what forward deployment means and shape the platform and organization that bring it to life.

You will work with the AI Platform engineering team, product leaders, and subject-matter experts to identify opportunities, onboard departments, and build durable platform capabilities. You will define playbooks, patterns, and scalable operating practices as the team scales.