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# Sr Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI at SoFi

- **Company:** SoFi
- **Location:** Seattle, WA / San Francisco, CA / Cottonwood Heights, UT
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17
- **Apply:** https://sofi.com/careers/job/7996286003?gh_jid=7996286003

## Job description

[Employee Applicant Privacy Notice](https://www.sofi.com/sofi-employee-applicant-privacy-notice/)

Who we are:

Shape a brighter financial future with us.

Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.

We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.

## The Role

SoFi is building an internal AI platform that will change how employees across the company work. It combines models, enterprise context, tools, memory, governed capabilities, and an extensible agent harness so teams can move beyond chat and apply AI to meaningful business workflows.

You will work with the AI Platform engineering team, product leader, and subject-matter experts across the company. You will help departments reimagine how their work gets done, build the first workflows that make that future real, and turn what you learn in the field into durable platform capabilities.

Because you will be the first person in this role, you will also define what forward deployment means at SoFi: how we discover opportunities, onboard departments, build and evaluate workflows, measure outcomes, support users, and translate repeated needs into platform investments. Your work will establish the technical and operating foundation for a broader AI enablement capability.

This role does not have a playbook. It is an opportunity to write one and to define how applied AI changes the way work gets done across SoFi. This is a rare opportunity to shape both an enterprise AI platform and the organization that brings it to life.

## What You’ll Do

- You will operate as a product-minded engineer, platform architect, and hands-on builder. One week you may be mapping a complex Finance workflow with domain experts; the next, prototyping an agentic solution, defining its evaluations, and contributing a new capability to the shared platform.
- Partner with leaders and subject-matter experts across SoFi to identify high-value opportunities to transform work with AI.
- Embed with internal departments to understand their workflows, systems, data, constraints, and measures of success and deploy AI-enabled workflows that solve real business problems.
- Lead departments from initial discovery through onboarding, adoption, production use, and measurable outcomes.
- Develop the playbooks, technical patterns, and operating practices that allow AI enablement to scale across the company.
- Build reusable skills, tools, integrations, agents, and workflow components on top of SoFi's internal AI platform.
- Contribute directly to the platform when field deployments reveal missing capabilities or opportunities to improve the developer and user experience.
- Create tight feedback loops among users, AI Enablement, product, and platform engineering.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior business and technology leaders navigating the opportunities and tradeoffs of applied AI.

## What You’ll Need

- Deep experience building and operating sophisticated software systems at Sr Staff Engineer equivalent scope.
- A track record of leading technically ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through production adoption.
- Strong product judgment and an instinct for finding the real problem behind a feature request.
- Experience designing applications, platforms, developer tools, workflow systems, or distributed systems.
- Practical experience building with large language models, including tool use, context engineering, agents, evaluations, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
- The judgment to distinguish among a prototype, a department-specific solution, and a capability that belongs in a shared platform.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills across technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Comfort creating structure, standards, and momentum in a space where the operating model is still being formed.

## Nice to Have

- Experience as a founding or early Forward Deployed Engineer, product engineer, product manager, solutions architect, or technical leader for an enterprise platform.
- Experience building an internal developer platform, AI platform, enterprise productivity product, or agentic system.
- Experience building evaluation and feedback systems for nondeterministic or AI-enabled products.
- Experience operating in financial services or another highly regulated environment.

What Success Looks Like:

- Established a repeatable model for taking departments from opportunity discovery to successful production use.
- Delivered AI-enabled workflows that create measurable improvements in speed, quality, capacity, or employee experience.
- Built a trusted partnership among internal users, AI Enablement, and the AI Platform organization.
- Converted insights from early deployments into reusable capabilities within the shared platform.
- Defined standards for onboarding, workflow development, evaluation, deployment, support, and continuous improvement.
- Created the technical and operating foundation from which SoFi can scale its Forward Deployed Engineering and AI Enablement capabilities.

## Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.

To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our [Benefits at SoFi](https://sofietyinfo.sofi.com/sofi-benefits) page!

SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.

The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

[New York applicants: Notice of Employee Rights](https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2022/02/ls740_1.pdf)

SoFi is committed to an inclusive culture. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email accommodations@sofi.com.

We are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico at this time.

Internal Employees

If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.

## About SoFi

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SoFi is a next-generation fintech company using innovative, mobile-first technology to help 14.7 million members reach financial independence and “get their money right.”
- **Entity Type**: Public (Ticker: SOFI on Nasdaq)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with offices in Seattle, New York, Frisco, Cottonwood Heights, Helena, Murray, Greenville, Claymont, and more)
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Founded by Stanford business school students (originally as Social Finance, Inc.) — specific names not listed in the provided sources.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Personal finance / financial services (banking, lending, investment, credit, insurance)
- **Target customers**: B2C (individual members seeking loans, banking, investing, credit cards, mortgages, travel rewards) and B2B (employer‑facing “SoFi at Work” benefits and financial wellness programs)
- **Mission**: “To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.”

## Products & Services
- **[SoFi Checking & Savings](https://www.sofi.com/)**: FDIC‑insured checking and savings accounts with no fees, competitive APY, and early direct deposit.
- **[SoFi Invest](https://www.sofi.com/invest/)**: Commission‑free stock trading, crypto trading, automated investing, and IPO access.
- **[SoFi Personal Loans](https://www.sofi.com/personal-loans/)**: Unsecured personal loans for debt consolidation, home improvement, etc. (up to $100K).
- **[SoFi Student Loan Refinancing](https://www.sofi.com/student-loans/)**: Refinancing for federal and private student loans (the first company to offer this).
- **[SoFi Mortgages](https://www.sofi.com/mortgage/)**: Home purchase and refinance loans.
- **[SoFi Credit Card](https://www.sofi.com/credit-card/)**: 2% unlimited cash back rewards on all eligible purchases.
- **[SoFi Travel](https://www.sofi.com/travel/)**: Booking portal powered by Expedia, allowing members to save and earn rewards.
- **[SoFi Insurance](https://www.sofi.com/insurance/)**: Comparison and access to auto, home, renters, pet, and life insurance.
- **[SoFi at Work](https://www.sofi.com/at-work/)**: Employer‑sponsored financial wellness benefits, including student loan contributions and refinancing.
- **[Galileo](https://www.sofi.com/our-story/)**: Financial technology platform (API‑based) for card issuing and digital banking, operated as a subsidiary.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Publicly traded on Nasdaq (SOFI). Current market cap is not directly provided in the sources; refer to SoFi’s latest SEC filings or financial data platforms.
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **14.7 million members** (as of 2025‑2026) — [sofi.com](https://www.sofi.com/)
  - **$117 billion+ in funded loans** — [sofi.com](https://www.sofi.com/)
  - **$34 billion+ in debt paid off by members** — [sofi.com/our-story](https://www.sofi.com/our-story/)
  - **$12.5 billion+ in rewards earned** — [sofi.com](https://www.sofi.com/)
  - **Annual Revenue**: See SoFi Technologies 2025 Annual Report (SEC filing) for latest financial results — [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1818874/000181887426000034/sofitech2025ars.pdf)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not detailed in provided sources; historically received a $1 billion funding round in 2016 (the first U.S. fintech to do so) — [sofi.com/our-story](https://www.sofi.com/our-story/)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Received federal approval to become a national bank (2023) — [sofi.com/our-story](https://www.sofi.com/our-story/)
  - Reached 10 million members in 2022 and 14.7 million by early 2026 — [sofi.com](https://www.sofi.com/)
  - 121 open roles listed across 16 locations as of mid‑2026 — [sofi.com/careers](https://www.sofi.com/careers/)
  - Continuous product expansion (travel, credit card, bank, etc.)

## Competitive Advantages
- **All‑in‑one fintech ecosystem**: Banking, lending, investing, insurance, and travel in a single mobile‑first app — hard for single‑product fintechs to replicate.
- **SoFi National Bank**: FDIC‑insured checking and savings, giving SoFi a direct banking charter that reduces reliance on third‑party partners.
- **Galileo Platform**: Powers card issuing and digital banking for many fintechs, creating a network effect and deeper technology moat.
- **Member‑centric rewards**: SoFi Plus membership program bundles benefits (higher APY, bonus rewards, career coaching).
- **Student loan repayment as employee benefit**: Unique perk for attracting talent (as well as offering SoFi at Work to other employers).

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepen member engagement**: Cross‑sell more products within the single app to increase lifetime value.
- **Grow the bank**: Expand deposits, lending, and banking services under the national bank charter.
- **SoFi at Work**: Scale B2B benefits offering to acquire members through employers.
- **International/vertical expansion**: Potential for new product lines (e.g., SoFi Travel, insurance marketplace).
- **Maintain cost discipline**: Leverage technology to keep customer acquisition costs low while improving unit economics.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Defined by “The SoFi Way” — act as a founder, relentless problem solver, and partner to members and colleagues. Emphasis on transparency, trust, and cross‑collaboration.
- **Flexible Work**: Some teams offer remote, hybrid, or full‑time in‑office based on role; managers help decide the best setting. SoFridays (no meetings after 2 p.m. local time) protect focus time.
- **Benefits**:
  - **$200/month student loan contribution** to help employees pay down debt — [sofi.com/careers](https://www.sofi.com/careers/)
  - Comprehensive health, vision, dental, life, disability; fertility & family planning options; flexible time off
  - Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year + regular training and leadership programs
  - **SoFi Gives**: 16 hours of paid volunteer time off per year
  - **SoFi Circles**: 8 Employee Resource Groups fostering inclusion and belonging — [sofietyinfo.sofi.com/why-sofi](https://sofietyinfo.sofi.com/why-sofi)
- **Learning & Development**: Career pathways, manager excellence framework, and mentorship programs.
- **Monthly All‑Hands with CEO** for direct transparency.
- **Locations**: Major hubs include San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Frisco (Texas); remote work is not available from Hawaii or Alaska due to insurance coverage — [sofi.com/careers](https://www.sofi.com/careers/)

## Sources
1. [SoFi Careers Page](https://www.sofi.com/careers/) — benefits, culture, job openings, locations
2. [SoFi Homepage](https://www.sofi.com/) — member count, funded loans, key metrics
3. [SoFi Our Story / About](https://www.sofi.com/our-story/) — founding history, milestones, mission
4. [SoFi 2025 Annual Report (SEC)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1818874/000181887426000034/sofitech2025ars.pdf) — financials
5. [SoFi Candidate Resource Website (Why SoFi)](https://sofietyinfo.sofi.com/why-sofi) — flexible work, culture, SoFi Gives, learning programs, SoFridays

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