AI maturity
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Director of AIRemote
Director of AI Platforms
SoFi · Financial Services / Fintech · 📍 Seattle, WA
SoFi is hiring a hands-on platform engineering leader to build and own the internal AI developer platform — inference serving, orchestration, SDLC agents, and governance guardrails — that will become the foundational layer for all AI development across the company.
Reports to
CTO
Company stage
public
Source
linkedin
Key responsibilities
- Build and operate a multi-tenant AI platform providing model access, inference serving, prompt/workflow orchestration, retrieval integration, and evaluation tooling
- Establish golden paths, reference architectures, and developer experience workflows for AI development and deployment
- Embed AI capabilities into the SDLC to accelerate engineering productivity across planning, coding, testing, deployment, and observability
- Define and deliver AI platform strategy, roadmap, intake, lifecycle, and deprecation policies
- Lead vendor and build-vs-buy decisions for AI platform components
- Partner with Engineering, Security, Risk, Legal, and Compliance to ensure AI governance and regulatory compliance by default
- Drive platform adoption through developer experience quality, not mandate
Requirements
- Proven track record shipping production-grade internal developer platforms adopted voluntarily by engineering teams
- Experience operating across organizational boundaries with influence rather than authority
- Deep understanding of AI/ML infrastructure: model serving, inference, orchestration, RAG/retrieval, evaluation
- Familiarity with regulated industry governance requirements (risk, compliance, audit trails)
- Experience integrating AI into CI/CD and SDLC tooling
Signals
- ⚠ No salary or compensation range disclosed
- ⚠ Job description truncated mid-sentence suggesting copy/paste error — full scope may be broader
- ⚠ No previous postings from this company to benchmark against
- ✓ Highly specific technical scope signals genuine internal need, not a placeholder role
- ✓ Clear mandate to build from scratch with roadmap ownership — high autonomy
- ✓ Explicit cultural signal: adoption through quality, not mandate — suggests healthy engineering culture
- ✓ Cross-functional executive sponsorship implied (Engineering, Risk, Legal, Compliance alignment)
- ✓ Reference to specific internal product vision ('Open Claw') signals investment and clarity of direction
- ✓ SoFi is a public company with a national bank charter — real budget, real scale