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Responsibilities
- You will lead a team of 4 engineers, ranging from junior to staff, developing them through clear goal setting, coaching, and feedback
- You will define and drive the long-term strategy and manage execution on the team, in close partnership with technical and product leaders across Plaid
- Have a front row seat to all the latest industry developments. Over time, with the skills and experience you develop and hone on this team, you can become an influential voice in defining where AI <> Fintech will be heading longer term.
You will work with your team to
- Lead projects that enable and scale our business with our largest AI customers and partners, starting with personal finance use cases and expanding into many others; examples include:
- Develop and evolve the preferred integration pattern for Plaid with AI providers - from API adaptations to building the official Plaid MCP Servers, and beyond
- Redefine how Plaid’s consumer link experience embed into conversational interfaces in the most seamless way
- Architect the trust layer for the future of agentic commerce that will become the industry standard
- Scale and extend our existing successful bets on AI-powered customer experience; examples include:
- Make the next step-function improvement in our homegrown customer support agent - land our multi-turn and multi-agent system that powers a truly delightful experience for our customers; define how to scalably run offline evaluation for complex multi-turn open-ended tasks; research and prototype how Human-In-The-Loop Reinforcement Learning (RLHF) can power an insights flywheel; pioneer the architecture for customer-specific long-term memory, etc.
- Extend our agentic system to support other critical parts of the customer journey, starting with areas with the highest ROI - top-of-funnel product recommendation, customer onboarding and risk diligence, customer activation and assistance for faster productionization, as well as upselling and cross-selling of Plaid products.
Qualifications
Must-haves
- 8+ years of industry experience, that includes time as a Staff-level engineer before transitioning into management.
- 1+ years of engineering management experience
- 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
- Retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
- Semantic search - vector database and embedding models
- Agent orchestration framework
- Evaluation and monitoring framework of open-ended tasks
- Streaming and SSE
- Common UX and design patterns for GenAI-powered products
- Ability to deeply understand customer and user needs through user research and rapid experimentation - be your own technical PM
- Track record of building and growing high performing engineering teams (either as an engineer or a manager).
- Ability to balance divergent thinking (exploring possibilities) with convergent thinking (evaluating feasibility), which is critical for driving 0 ->1 projects
- Extremely curious and passionate about working in GenAI applications space
Nice to have
- Experience training and/or serving ML models in production, or fine-tuning LLMs for domain-specific use cases
- Comfortable operating in privacy/PII-sensitive environments and applying compliance mitigations
Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations@plaid.com.
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Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.
