Staff Software Engineer - AI

Plaid(25 days ago)

HybridFull TimeSenior$190,015 - $252,594 (estimated)Engineering

About this role

This role sits on Plaid’s new AI Applications team as an early, founding engineer focused on building AI-powered experiences across Plaid’s products and customer lifecycle. The position centers on architecting and shipping generative AI applications that power customer support, onboarding, personalization, and other high-impact fintech use cases. The engineer will help define Plaid’s integration patterns with major AI providers and build the trust and consent layers for agentic commerce. Over time, the role is expected to grow into a key voice shaping Plaid’s AI-first strategy at the intersection of AI and fintech.

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Required Skills

System Design
API Design
GenAI Product Development
LLM Integration
Prompt Engineering
Model Fine Tuning
Retrieval Augmented Generation
Semantic Search
Vector Databases
Embedding Models

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About Plaid

plaid.com

Plaid is a fintech infrastructure company that helps developers and businesses connect consumers’ bank accounts and financial data to apps and services via easy-to-integrate APIs and Plaid Link. Its product suite (Auth, Transactions, Identity, Assets, Investments, Liabilities, payment initiation and risk/verification tools) supports account verification, ACH payments, balance checks, transaction feeds, and underwriting. Companies in payments, lending, investing and personal finance rely on Plaid for developer-friendly SDKs, strong security controls, and compliance support to build reliable, data-driven fintech experiences.