Sr Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI

• Deep experience building and operating sophisticated software systems at Sr Staff Engineer equivalent scope.
• A track record of leading technically ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through production adoption.
• Strong product judgment and an instinct for finding the real problem behind a feature request.
• Experience designing applications, platforms, developer tools, workflow systems, or distributed systems.
• Practical experience building with large language models, including tool use, context engineering, agents, evaluations, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
• The judgment to distinguish among a prototype, a department-specific solution, and a capability that belongs in a shared platform.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills across technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Comfort creating structure, standards, and momentum in a space where the operating model is still being formed.

Nice to Have

• Experience as a founding or early Forward Deployed Engineer, product engineer, product manager, solutions architect, or technical leader for an enterprise platform.
• Experience building an internal developer platform, AI platform, enterprise productivity product, or agentic system.
• Experience building evaluation and feedback systems for nondeterministic or AI-enabled products.
• Experience operating in financial services or another highly regulated environment.

• Established a repeatable model for taking departments from opportunity discovery to successful production use.
• Delivered AI-enabled workflows that create measurable improvements in speed, quality, capacity, or employee experience.
• Built a trusted partnership among internal users, AI Enablement, and the AI Platform organization.
• Converted insights from early deployments into reusable capabilities within the shared platform.
• Defined standards for onboarding, workflow development, evaluation, deployment, support, and continuous improvement.
• Created the technical and operating foundation from which SoFi can scale its Forward Deployed Engineering and AI Enablement capabilities.

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