AI Solutions Engineer

Affirm

4d • CA$173,000 - CA$233,000 • Remote

About The Position

This is a hands-on engineering role where you will build, deploy, and maintain AI-powered systems that serve the People function and the broader employee base. The work involves transforming complex business problems, such as fragmented knowledge, manual processes, and disconnected tools, into functional software including agents, APIs, applications, and infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with domain experts and stakeholders within the People function to convert their requirements into production systems, while also understanding technical limitations. This role requires a deep understanding of business problems to make independent architectural decisions and ensure the successful deployment and ongoing maintenance of these systems, including hosting, security, and deployment.

Requirements

• A strong software engineering foundation with experience in building, deploying, and maintaining production applications.
• Understanding of version control (Git/GitHub), CI/CD pipelines, and containerization.
• Proficiency in systems thinking and technical architecture, understanding how databases, APIs, authentication, hosting, and deployment pipelines interact.
• Ability to make architectural decisions, evaluate trade-offs, and identify issues in code.
• Comfort working with Python and a strong ability to think in systems.
• A builder disposition with experience creating systems, tools, or platforms from scratch.
• Ability to work effectively across the technical-business boundary, understanding business needs and translating them into technical requirements, and vice versa.
• Experience integrating with HRIS systems like Workday and knowledge management tools like Notion is a plus.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Snowpark Container Services / Quicksilver.
• Familiarity with Affirm's existing security and data governance infrastructure.
• Experience designing reliability infrastructure for LLM services.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, AI-centric environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship AI agents, APIs, and applications on Affirm's internal platform (Snowpark Container Services / Quicksilver), owning the full lifecycle including architecture, containerization, networking, secrets, CI/CD, monitoring, and issue resolution.
• Translate business requirements from People Operations stakeholders into production systems, integrating with tools like Workday and Notion to ensure AI surfaces accurate information from governed content.
• Navigate and adhere to Affirm's security and data governance infrastructure, including RBACs, data classification, and access policies, to safely run AI systems on employee data.
• Design reliability infrastructure for multi-model LLM services, incorporating structured output validation, fallback chains, circuit breakers for external APIs, and quality controls to prevent hallucinations.
• Collaborate directly with non-technical stakeholders to define problems, make architectural decisions, and provide realistic assessments of AI capabilities.
• Contribute to the team's shared Python codebase, dbt models, and Snowflake infrastructure as part of a full-stack team.
• Diagnose and fix production issues for owned systems.

Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
• Equity rewards
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
• 100% subsidized medical coverage
• Dental and vision for you and your dependents

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed