Remote AI Systems Engineer - Production-Ready Solutions

Affirm; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 195,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an Engineer to build AI systems that enhance the People function and employee engagement. The ideal candidate will have a solid software engineering background and the ability to navigate complex business problems effectively.

This role offers significant impact on user experience with AI systems and involves working closely with non-technical stakeholders. The position is remote-first, allowing flexibility while contributing to innovative AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining production applications.
• Understanding of version control, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization.
• Ability to navigate security and data governance infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship AI agents and applications on internal platforms.
• Turn messy business requirements into production systems.
• Design reliability infrastructure for multi-model LLM services.

Skills

Software engineering foundation

Systems thinking and technical architecture

Builder disposition

Ability to work across the technical-business boundary

Tools

Python

Git/GitHub

Job description

Affirm is seeking an Engineer to build AI systems that enhance the People function and employee engagement. The ideal candidate will have a solid software engineering background and the ability to navigate complex business problems effectively.

This role offers significant impact on user experience with AI systems and involves working closely with non-technical stakeholders. The position is remote-first, allowing flexibility while contributing to innovative AI solutions.