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The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.\nThe Role \nSoFi is building an internal AI platform that will change how employees across the company work. It combines models, enterprise context, tools, memory, governed capabilities, and an extensible agent harness so teams can move beyond chat and apply AI to meaningful business workflows.\nYou will work with the AI Platform engineering team, product leader, and subject-matter experts across the company. You will help departments reimagine how their work gets done, build the first workflows that make that future real, and turn what you learn in the field into durable platform capabilities.\nBecause you will be the first person in this role, you will also define what forward deployment means at SoFi: how we discover opportunities, onboard departments, build and evaluate workflows, measure outcomes, support users, and translate repeated needs into platform investments. Your work will establish the technical and operating foundation for a broader AI enablement capability.\nThis role does not have a playbook. It is an opportunity to write one and to define how applied AI changes the way work gets done across SoFi. This is a rare opportunity to shape both an enterprise AI platform and the organization that brings it to life.\nWhat You’ll Do\nYou will operate as a product-minded engineer, platform architect, and hands-on builder. One week you may be mapping a complex Finance workflow with domain experts; the next, prototyping an agentic solution, defining its evaluations, and contributing a new capability to the shared platform.\nPartner with leaders and subject-matter experts across SoFi to identify high-value opportunities to transform work with AI.\nEmbed with internal departments to understand their workflows, systems, data, constraints, and measures of success and deploy AI-enabled workflows that solve real business problems.\nLead departments from initial discovery through onboarding, adoption, production use, and measurable outcomes.\nDevelop the playbooks, technical patterns, and operating practices that allow AI enablement to scale across the company.\nBuild reusable skills, tools, integrations, agents, and workflow components on top of SoFi's internal AI platform.\nContribute directly to the platform when field deployments reveal missing capabilities or opportunities to improve the developer and user experience.\nCreate tight feedback loops among users, AI Enablement, product, and platform engineering.\nServe as a trusted technical advisor to senior business and technology leaders navigating the opportunities and tradeoffs of applied AI.\nWhat You’ll Need\nDeep experience building and operating sophisticated software systems at Sr Staff Engineer equivalent scope.\nA track record of leading technically ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through production adoption.\nStrong product judgment and an instinct for finding the real problem behind a feature request.\nExperience designing applications, platforms, developer tools, workflow systems, or distributed systems.\nPractical experience building with large language models, including tool use, context engineering, agents, evaluations, and human-in-the-loop patterns.\nThe judgment to distinguish among a prototype, a department-specific solution, and a capability that belongs in a shared platform.\nExceptional written and verbal communication skills across technical and nontechnical audiences.\nComfort creating structure, standards, and momentum in a space where the operating model is still being formed.\nNice to Have\nExperience as a founding or early Forward Deployed Engineer, product engineer, product manager, solutions architect, or technical leader for an enterprise platform.\nExperience building an internal developer platform, AI platform, enterprise productivity product, or agentic system.\nExperience building evaluation and feedback systems for nondeterministic or AI-enabled products.\nExperience operating in financial services or another highly regulated environment.\nWhat Success Looks Like: \nEstablished a repeatable model for taking departments from opportunity discovery to successful production use.\nDelivered AI-enabled workflows that create measurable improvements in speed, quality, capacity, or employee experience.\nBuilt a trusted partnership among internal users, AI Enablement, and the AI Platform organization.\nConverted insights from early deployments into reusable capabilities within the shared platform.\nDefined standards for onboarding, workflow development, evaluation, deployment, support, and continuous improvement.\nCreated the technical and operating foundation from which SoFi can scale its Forward Deployed Engineering and AI Enablement capabilities.\nCompensation and Benefits\nThe base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location. \nTo view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!\nSoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.\nThe Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\nNew York applicants: Notice of Employee Rights\nSoFi is committed to an inclusive culture. 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