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
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
Strong debugging and monitoring experience for production systems
Ability to deeply understand customer and user needs through user research and rapid experimentation - be your own technical PM
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
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
Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks or libraries, with comfort building user-facing experiences
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!
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