AI Solutions Engineer

Role Description

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

About the Team

People Tech & Analytics (PTA) builds and owns the data, AI, and technology infrastructure for Affirm's People function. The team runs like a product engineering group embedded in HR. We own the full stack: data ingestion, transformation, dashboards, AI tools, and production applications deployed on Snowflake.

About the Role

This is a hands-on engineering role. You will build, deploy, and maintain AI-powered systems that serve the People function and the broader employee base. The work is taking messy business problems (fragmented knowledge, manual processes, disconnected tools) and turning them into working software: agents, APIs, applications, and infrastructure.

• Work closely with partners across the People function who own domain expertise and stakeholder relationships.
• Turn rough applications and processes into production systems.
• Understand business problems well enough to make architecture decisions.
• Get what you build running in production, including hosting, security, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.

What You'll Do

• Build and ship AI agents, APIs, and applications on Affirm's internal platform (Snowpark Container Services / Quicksilver).
• Own the full lifecycle: architecture, containerization, networking, secrets, CI/CD, monitoring, and fixing what breaks.
• Turn messy business requirements from People Operations stakeholders into production systems.
• Integrate with Workday, Notion, and case management tools to surface real answers from governed content.
• Navigate Affirm's existing security and data governance infrastructure to get AI systems running safely on people data.
• Design reliability infrastructure for multi-model LLM services.
• Work directly with non-technical stakeholders to scope problems and make architecture decisions.
• Contribute to the team's shared Python codebase, dbt models, and Snowflake infrastructure.
• Own what you build; diagnose and fix production issues.

Qualifications

• Software engineering foundation; experience building, deploying, and maintaining production applications.
• Understanding of version control (Git/GitHub), CI/CD pipelines, and containerization.
• Systems thinking and technical architecture; ability to evaluate trade-offs and read code.
• Builder disposition; experience creating systems, tools, or platforms from scratch.
• Ability to work across the technical-business boundary; translate technical constraints into business language and vice versa.

Why You'll Love This Role

• Build AI systems that directly change how 2,000+ employees interact with the People function.
• Small team, high autonomy; own what you build from architecture through production.
• Work at the frontier of AI-powered employee experience.
• A team that ships fast, uses AI tools as a core part of how we work, and doesn't wait for permission to build things.

Compensation

• Pay Grade - O
• Equity Grade - 6
• Base pay range per year: $173,000 - $233,000
• Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure based on location, experience, and job-related skills.

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.

Company Description

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office.