Remote AI Systems Engineer - Production-Ready Solutions

Affirm; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 195,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage for dependents

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm is looking for a hands-on engineer to build and maintain AI-powered systems crucial for its People function. You will translate messy business problems into functional software while collaborating closely with stakeholders to design effective solutions. The role emphasizes autonomy, software architecture, and full ownership of production systems.

With a competitive compensation package and a remote-first approach, this position allows for visibility and measurable impact across a 2,000+ employee base.

Qualifications

• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining production applications.
• Understanding of system integration, APIs, and databases.
• Ability to turn non-technical requirements into functional solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship AI agents and applications.
• Translate business requirements into production systems.
• Maintain AI systems safely with governance and data policies.
• Design reliability infrastructure for AI services.
• Work with stakeholders to scope problems and offer solutions.

Skills

Software engineering foundation

Systems thinking

Technical architecture

Builder disposition

Ability to work across technical-business boundary

Tools

Python

Git/GitHub

CI/CD

Containerization

Job description

Affirm is looking for a hands-on engineer to build and maintain AI-powered systems crucial for its People function. You will translate messy business problems into functional software while collaborating closely with stakeholders to design effective solutions. The role emphasizes autonomy, software architecture, and full ownership of production systems.

With a competitive compensation package and a remote-first approach, this position allows for visibility and measurable impact across a 2,000+ employee base.