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AI Engineer

Stripe · Chicago · On-site

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement. Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

As an AI Engineer, you'll be embedded directly with the Solutions Architecture team—building alongside them, deeply understanding their workflows, and shipping tools and automation that permanently change how they operate. Your measure of success is SA productivity: the engagements you've accelerated, the workflows you've transformed, and the tools you've built that the org adopts as default. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years of experience as an engineer shipping production systems
  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals: you can debug a failing system, trace issues across services, and reason about data flows
  • Experience building and deploying AI agents, LLM-powered tools, or workflow automation beyond basic prompt engineering
  • Experience scoping and delivering work with minimal oversight in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment
  • Proficiency in at least two of: Ruby, Node.js, Python, or Next.js
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) including deployment, monitoring, and basic DevOps
More about this role

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

The Solutions Architecture (SA) organization helps Stripe's most strategic customers design and validate technical solutions that drive their business forward. Within SA, our team builds the tools, workflows, and custom technical assets that make the broader SA org more effective—turning individual ingenuity into org-wide capability.

We are looking for AI Engineers who are energized by working close to the business and the users we serve. You'll operate as an embedded, high-context engineer focused on the highest-leverage opportunities across the SA org—building production-quality tooling, supporting our most strategic engagements, and shipping automation that meaningfully improves how...

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