Remote AI Systems Engineer - Production-Ready Solutions

Affirm; Portland (OR); 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 in Portland, Oregon is seeking a hands-on engineer to build and maintain AI-driven systems that enhance the People function for 2,000+ employees. You'll transform complex business problems into effective software solutions while collaborating with various stakeholders.

The successful candidate will possess strong engineering skills, particularly in Python, and will navigate technical and business requirements effectively.

This remote-first role offers a competitive salary, equity participation, and comprehensive benefits including health coverage.

Qualifications

• Experience in building, deploying, and maintaining production applications.
• Ability to understand databases, APIs, and deployment pipelines.
• Experience working with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship AI agents, APIs, and applications.
• Turn business requirements into production systems.
• Ensure security and data governance for AI systems.
• Design reliability infrastructure for AI services.
• Contribute to shared codebase and own development processes.

Skills

Software engineering foundation

Systems thinking and technical architecture

Builder disposition

Ability to work across the technical-business boundary

Tools

Python

Job description

Affirm in Portland, Oregon is seeking a hands-on engineer to build and maintain AI-driven systems that enhance the People function for 2,000+ employees. You'll transform complex business problems into effective software solutions while collaborating with various stakeholders.

The successful candidate will possess strong engineering skills, particularly in Python, and will navigate technical and business requirements effectively.

This remote-first role offers a competitive salary, equity participation, and comprehensive benefits including health coverage.