# Staff Software Engineer - AI Applications at Plaid

- Company: Plaid
- What the company does: Backed by Index, Kleiner Perkins and NEA.
- Company website: http://plaid.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco HQ
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $265K to $370K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/plaid/0d80a5be-8860-46ea-9e67-c4a2bb53b1bf
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/plaid-staff-software-engineer-ai-applications/

## About the role

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs, as well as intuitive, high-quality frontend applications that bring those systems to life. Work with other AI engineers, software engineers and machine learning engineers to architect, design and implement GenAI-powered products and features

## What they're looking for

- The explosive growth in model intelligence and increasing relevance for enterprise tasks offer a unique opportunity for Plaid to rethink from the ground up how we operate and interact with our customers for the most optimal experience
- This is just the beginning and there is so much more we could do
- Experience building backend services and working with microservices or service-oriented architectures
- Hands-on experience working with LLMs to build products and shipping them to product with iterating with real user feedback - including but not limited to:
- Prompt engineering
- Fine-tuning

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