Associate AI Engineer, Finance Transformation

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About the role

SoFi's Associate AI Engineer, Finance Transformation is a hands-on builder within SoFi's Finance organization, focused on building agentic AI workflows that transform how Finance works—from close and reconciliations to forecasting and reporting. Finance has one of the largest AI opportunity surfaces at SoFi, with over a hundred identified use cases, an active champions network, and executive sponsorship.

In this role, you will build multi-step AI workflows on approved enterprise AI platforms, stand up telemetry to measure AI usage, cost, and ROI across Finance, and help make AI outputs trustworthy for Finance decision-making in a controlled environment where outputs must be explainable, auditable, and reconciled to the number. You will work directly with the AI Transformation Manager for Finance and in close partnership with SoFi's AI SDLC and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Build agentic AI workflows: Develop multi-step AI workflows such as planning, tool use, retrieval, and structured orchestration on approved enterprise AI platforms and agentic coding tools to automate Finance processes.
• Build AI telemetry: Own usage, cost, engagement, and ROI reporting across Finance AI tools, from source extraction to dashboards leadership relies on.
• Contribute to the experience layer: Help design how Finance users interact with AI systems, including workflows, interfaces, and feedback loops that build trust and adoption.
• Validate outputs: Apply and refine repeatable patterns for validating AI outputs before they inform Finance decisions, such as reconciliation, documented assumptions, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
• Prototype fast: Turn prioritized Finance use cases into working prototypes, then partner with AI SDLC and platform engineering on the path to production.
• Learn the domain: Develop Finance fluency (close, reconciliation, reporting workflows) and SQL rigor in seat, with structured support.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI/ML, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1–3 years of experience building with LLMs or an exceptional new-grad record with substantial hands-on agent projects (academic, personal, open-source, or internship work all count).
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, RAG, or agent frameworks—with a portfolio of projects where you can clearly explain what you personally designed and why.
• Working Python for automation, API integration, and prototyping.
• Basic SQL for querying data (Finance-grade rigor will be developed in seat).
• Builder mindset: bias toward making a working thing rather than describing one.
• Willingness to learn Finance domain context and communicate with non-technical stakeholders, with support.

Skills

• Exposure to evaluation, tracing, or observability practices for AI systems.
• Exposure to Snowflake, Cortex, or natural-language-to-SQL tooling.
• Exposure to Finance, Accounting, or another controlled/regulated data environment.
• Experience building user-facing tools or internal apps powered by AI.

Pay

The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.

Benefits

To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page.