Sr Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI
Core
Building and operating an internal enterprise AI platform to enable AI workflows across SoFi's departments, defining forward deployment strategies, and creating reusable platform capabilities.
Role type
Sr Staff Forward Deployed Engineer (Enterprise AI)
Builds
Internal AI platform, agentic workflows, developer tools, and reusable AI enablement capabilities for enterprise use.
Domain
Financial services / Enterprise AI / Large Language Models
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Building and operating sophisticated software systems, leading cross-functional initiatives, product judgment, designing distributed systems, building with LLMs (tool use, agents, evaluations), distinguishing prototypes from platform capabilities, creating technical standards and operating models.
Preferred skills
Founding or early Forward Deployed Engineer experience, building internal developer platforms or agentic systems, operating in highly regulated environments.
Technologies
Large Language Models, agents, workflow systems, distributed systems, internal AI platforms.
Responsibilities
Partner with leaders to identify high-value AI opportunities, embed with departments to understand workflows and deploy AI solutions, lead departments from discovery to production adoption, develop playbooks and technical patterns for scaling AI enablement, build reusable skills and integrations on the internal platform, serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior leaders.
Seniority
Sr Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope
