Chime Financial, Inc
Senior Software Engineer, AI Enablement
San Francisco, CA, USA · Senior · Full-time
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$1,131 more — $165,131 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $165,131 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- You'll work on systems like Archimedes, Bosun, and easyRAG that power internal AI assistants, developer workflows, and retrieval-backed applications.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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 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.
- Build and evolve internal AI platforms such as Archimedes, Bosun, and easyRAG, enabling teams to develop and scale LLM-powered applications and workflows
- Develop systems that let teams launch AI-powered assistants and workflows in a standardized, observable, and governed way
- 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
- 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
- Collaborate with engineers and partner teams across Chime to embed AI into internal tools, workflows, and employee experiences
- 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
Requirements
- To thrive in this role, you have
- Familiarity with AI-specific engineering concerns such as evaluation, prompt and version management, observability, cost control, safety, and data privacy
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Engineers are required to participate in on-call rotation.
Compensation
- Below is the base salary offered for this role and level of experience.
Company info
- Wage Notice $164,000 - $227,000 USD A little about us At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress.
- From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life.
- Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.
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