# Staff AI Acceleration Engineer at Dave

- Company: Dave
- What the company does: Want the best mobile financial app? Millions of people use Dave to get cash with no credit check, side hustles, and banking accounts with fewer fees. Join now. Backed by Norwest.
- Company website: https://dave.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $208K to $289K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dave/68040c59-7a0c-4d33-bc07-ccdfa32b8eea
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/dave-staff-ai-acceleration-engineer/

## About the role

We’re looking for a Staff AI Acceleration Engineer to define the technical foundation for how AI agents are built, connected to data, and safely deployed across Dave.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems, or a related technical field
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, ML infrastructure, or AI engineering
- Experience architecting and delivering production-grade AI platforms, LLM-powered applications, or autonomous agent systems
- Deep experience designing systems that securely connect LLMs to structured enterprise data through APIs, semantic layers, retrieval systems, or governance frameworks
- Experience designing MCP servers, function-calling frameworks, tool-use architectures, or similar AI connectivity patterns
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with expertise building scalable, reliable distributed systems

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