Senior Software Engineer, AI Enablement (San Francisco)

Chime is a fintech company offering banking services and personal loans to millions of members. 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.

Key responsibilities

• Build and evolve internal AI platforms such as Archimedes, Bosun, and easyRAG, enabling teams to develop and scale LLM-powered applications
• Design and implement reusable platform capabilities such as APIs, SDKs, templates, and shared services that make it easier to build safe
• 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

Requirements

• 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
• 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
• Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders such as Security, Risk, Product, and Operations

Location and schedule

• Onsite in San Francisco, California

Salary and benefits

US base salary $164,000 to $227,000 a year. Chime also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.