Senior Software Engineer, AI Enablement

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About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the AI Enablement team, you will build the internal platforms, primitives, and guardrails that make AI a trusted co-pilot for employees across Chime.

You’ll work on systems like Archimedes , Bosun , and easyRAG that power internal AI assistants, developer workflows, and retrieval-backed applications. These platforms make it easier for teams across the company to build, adopt, and scale LLM-powered tools safely and effectively.

This team defines Chime’s golden paths for AI : opinionated but flexible patterns that help teams move quickly while maintaining safety, reliability, cost control, and governance. In this role, you’ll help turn emerging AI capabilities into durable, reusable platform features that can be adopted across the company.

You’ll partner closely with Platform Engineering, Security, Risk, Legal, and product teams to build scalable, well-governed systems that support internal AI use cases from early prototyping through production adoption.

In this role, you can expect to

• Build and evolve internal AI platforms such as Archimedes, Bosun, and easyRAG , enabling teams to develop and scale LLM-powered applications and workflows
• Design and implement reusable platform capabilities such as APIs, SDKs, templates, and shared services that make it easier to build safe, high-quality AI-powered tools
• Prototype and productionize new AI capabilities, identifying high-leverage use cases and turning successful patterns into durable platform features
• Define and improve Chime’s golden path patterns for LLM usage, balancing developer velocity with safety, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Develop systems that let teams launch AI-powered assistants and workflows in a standardized, observable, and governed way
• Establish evaluation, observability, and cost-management practices across AI systems, including quality, latency, safety, and spend
• Partner with Security, Risk, and Legal to implement practical guardrails for responsible AI development and usage
• Drive consistency and standardization in how AI systems are built, deployed, and operated across the company
• Collaborate with engineers and partner teams across Chime to embed AI into internal tools, workflows, and employee experiences

To thrive in this role, you have

• Significant experience as a software engineer building distributed systems, platform services, or internal developer tools
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs or ML services and shipping production-quality features on top of them
• Strong coding skills in at least one of Python, Go, or TypeScript/JavaScript , with comfort working across services, CLIs, and internal tooling
• A platform mindset: you think in reusable primitives, contracts, and paved roads rather than one-off solutions
• Familiarity with AI-specific engineering concerns such as evaluation, prompt and version management, observability, cost control, safety, and data privacy
• Experien

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ive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits designed to support you at every stage of life.

• 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
• 🫂 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
• 👟 Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
• 👶 Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
• 👪 Access to family planning reimbursement
• 💚 A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress

We know that great work can’t be done without a diverse team and inclusive environment. That’s why we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas to join our team. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.

Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis under provincial, federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances. We will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Cook County Ordinance, NYC Fair Chance Act, and the LA City Fair Chance Ordinance, and consistent with Canadian provincial and federal laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during any stage of the application process, please contact: accommodations@chime.com .

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