AI Engineer

Jobs Jobs Our opportunity  Life at Stripe  Benefits  University  AI Engineer AI EngineerWho We AreAbout StripeStripe 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.About The TeamThe 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 Solutions Architects work every day.What You'll DoAs 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.You'll ship code daily. You'll discover where SAs lose time and build high-impact solutions. You'll take what works for one person and scale it to work for the org. And when our most strategic customer engagements need custom technical assets, you'll build those too.This is a role for someone who wants to work at the intersection of engineering and business impact—close to customers, close to revenue, and building for people you can see using your work every day.ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with Solutions Architects, SA leadership, Product, and Engineering to scope technical work and translate ambiguous business needs into well-defined deliverablesEvaluate and integrate AI capabilities (LLMs, agents, workflow automation) where they provide genuine leverage—not for novelty, but for measurable productivity improvementArchitect and build internal tools, agents, and automated workflows that accelerate SA and manager productivity across technical discovery, solution design, demoing, user engagements, territory/pipeline management, and product interlockTake high-potential tools and workflows built by SAs and managers and harden them into scalable, maintainable, production-grade solutionsIdentify patterns across SA workflows and proactively build solutions that address recurring frictionBuild custom demo environments, PoC applications, and technical assets for Stripe's most strategic customer engagementsDocument tools, architectures, and usage patterns so others can adopt and extend what you've builtDebug, extend, and maintain backend systems across a variety of codebases and infrastructureMinimum Requirements4+ years of experience as an engineer shipping production systemsStrong backend engineering fundamentals: you can debug a failing system, trace issues across services, and reason about data flowsExperience building and deploying AI agents, LLM-powered tools, or workflow automation beyond basic prompt...