AI Solutions Engineer

Role Description

Chainguard is becoming an AI company, and we’re hiring an AI Solutions Engineer to make that real in the daily work of every team. This is a dedicated, hands-on role with a clear mission: find the highest-leverage opportunities where AI can materially change the economics of how Chainguard operates — revenue, efficiency, and quality — and build the working prototypes that prove they work.

The role is part internal consultant, part builder. You’ll partner with functional owners across the company (Engineering, GTM, Product, Operations, and beyond), the AI Enablement Council, and our AI Ambassadors to take prioritized use cases from idea to validated prototype.

Your job is to reduce the frustration of great ideas stalling for lack of capacity or technical skill — and to build the evidence base that tells the company where to invest next.

What you’ll do:

• Find high-leverage opportunities:
  • Run listening tours and current-state assessments across functions.
  • Identify and prioritize the workflows where AI can deliver outsized impact.
  • Weigh impact potential against feasibility, focusing on opportunities that can materially bend the revenue/opex curve.
• Prototype and validate:
  • Take prioritized use cases from idea to working prototype.
  • Create internal workflow automations, reusable prompt systems and templates, AI-enabled tools and assistants, and early workflow integrations.
  • Test whether an opportunity is worth broader investment.
• Partner across the business:
  • Work directly with functional owners, the AI Enablement Council, and AI Ambassadors.
  • Understand real workflow needs, validate selected opportunities, and build the business case and evidence base needed to inform investment decisions.
• Build responsibly:
  • Build and test using approved tools and established Legal and Security review pathways.
  • Validate outputs, ensure clear human review, and maintain strong data hygiene.
  • No AI tool is used on Chainguard, customer, or personal data until it has cleared review.
• Make it visible and reusable:
  • Document what you built, the problem it solves, and what you learned.
  • Share your work across the company through Builder Hours, demos, and showcases.
  • Surface recurring technical needs and reuse opportunities back to the AI Enablement Council.
• Set the standard for internal AI building:
  • Model responsible, high-quality AI building so that what you prototype can be handed off, scaled, and maintained by the functional experts who own the workflow.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years building software, automation, or internal tooling.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to drive ambiguous, zero-to-one work independently.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) in real work.
• Experience building on top of LLM APIs — tool/function calling, agents, prompt and context engineering, RAG, and patterns like MCP.
• Able to wire together APIs, automations, and integrations across the SaaS systems a company runs on (e.g., Slack, Google Workspace, GitHub, Linear).
• Comfortable talking with non-technical stakeholders, framing problems, sizing impact, and prioritizing by impact and feasibility.
• Programming proficiency in at least one language, with strong preference for Go and/or Python.
• Respects security, legal, and data-handling guardrails.
• Strong communication skills, proficiency in English, and the ability to work autonomously in a remote, globally distributed team.

Requirements

• This role is about applying AI tooling and building internal prototypes across the business.
• Not responsible for training, fine-tuning, or building foundation models from scratch.
• Does not own product roadmap work, independent tool purchasing, or any path that bypasses Legal and Security review.

Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion, with the ability to participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.