Staff AI Acceleration Engineer

Your work will become the foundation every engineering team builds on as Dave scales AI across the business. By creating trusted infrastructure instead of one-off solutions, you’ll help accelerate development while ensuring AI systems remain reliable, secure, and aligned with our data platform.

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems, or a related technical field.

8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, ML infrastructure, or AI engineering.

Experience architecting and delivering production-grade AI platforms, LLM-powered applications, or autonomous agent systems.

Deep experience designing systems that securely connect LLMs to structured enterprise data through APIs, semantic layers, retrieval systems, or governance frameworks.

Experience designing MCP servers, function-calling frameworks, tool-use architectures, or similar AI connectivity patterns.

Strong software engineering fundamentals with expertise building scalable, reliable distributed systems.

Experience with modern data platforms and infrastructure including Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Kafka, Python, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.

Experience establishing engineering standards for testing, monitoring, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence.

Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.

Experience designing AI evaluation frameworks and automated quality measurement.

Experience with semantic layer technologies such as dbt Metrics, LookML, or similar platforms.

Experience building internal developer platforms adopted across engineering organizations.

Experience within fintech, banking, healthcare, or other regulated industries.

Experience with data lineage, governance, audit, or compliance automation systems.

You enjoy solving platform problems that unlock leverage for the entire engineering organization. You think beyond individual features and design systems that remain scalable, understandable, and adaptable over time. You balance speed with long-term maintainability and make thoughtful architectural decisions that improve both developer experience and business outcomes.

You’re comfortable working in areas that are still evolving, helping shape technical direction through collaboration, experimentation, and sound engineering judgment. You build strong partnerships across teams, welcome feedback, and understand that durable platforms are created through shared ownership rather than individual heroics.

This role offers significant technical ownership and the opportunity to influence how AI is built across Dave. Priorities will evolve as AI capabilities mature, and you’ll help define the architecture that supports those changes. We value thoughtful decision-making, collaborative problem solving, and building systems that create lasting impact.

Build the AI platform that powers the next generation of products and internal capabilities.

Shape company-wide technical strategy for AI infrastructure and intelligent systems.

Partner with experienced engineers across Data, Platform, Product, and Security.

Help deliver AI solutions that improve how Dave serves millions of members.

Join a profitable, growing public fintech where your technical decisions have company-wide impact.

Don’t let imposter syndrome get in the way of an incredible opportunity. We’re looking for people who can help us achieve our mission and vision, not just check off the boxes. If you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

At Dave, our people are just as important as our product. Our culture reflects the values that guide who we are, how we work, and what we aspire to be. Daves are member-centric, helpful, transparent, persistent, and better together. We strive to create an environment where all Daves feel valued, heard, and empowered to do their best work. As a virtual-first company, team members can live and work anywhere in the United States, except Hawaii.