Frontier AI Solutions Engineer - Build & Activate

Stripe; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe’s AI Build team seeks a Solutions Engineer to partner with frontier AI companies on payments, billing, and monetization infrastructures. You’ll own end-to-end proof-of-concept engagements, from scoping to activation, while collaborating with engineers, product managers, and solutions architects.

You will prototype rapidly, identify product gaps, and guide customers through activation, ensuring alignment with Stripe’s roadmap and frontier product evolution.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery or related field.
• Experience owning complex customer engagements from discovery through activation.
• Ability to prototype rapidly using modern AI coding harnesses.
• Strong understanding of APIs, integrations, and data flows.

Responsibilities

• Own strategic POCs end to end: scope, sell, and lead engagements.
• Build with customers: prototype solutions and translate workflows into production.
• Design across Stripe: create solutions spanning multiple Stripe products.
• Lead cross-functional teams across sales, product, engineering and services.
• Influence roadmap by translating customer needs into product requirements.

Skills

APIs

Integrations

Architecture

Prototyping

Cross-functional leadership

Customer engagement

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Job description

Stripe’s AI Build team seeks a Solutions Engineer to partner with frontier AI companies on payments, billing, and monetization infrastructures. You’ll own end-to-end proof-of-concept engagements, from scoping to activation, while collaborating with engineers, product managers, and solutions architects.

You will prototype rapidly, identify product gaps, and guide customers through activation, ensuring alignment with Stripe’s roadmap and frontier product evolution.