Solutions Engineer, AI Build Team

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Solutions Engineer on the AI Build team, you’ll work directly with frontier AI companies on the payments, billing, and monetization infrastructure underlying their core businesses.

• Own strategic POCs end to end: Sell, scope, and lead proof-of-concept engagements from initial customer commitment through activation.
• Build with customers: Work deeply with users’ engineers and technical leaders to understand their workflows, rapidly prototype solutions, and establish credible paths to…
• Design across Stripe: Create solutions that span multiple Stripe products and determine whether blockers require configuration, integration work, custom development, or a core…
• Close 0→1 gaps: Navigate incomplete products, evolving requirements, and interoperability gaps while balancing immediate customer outcomes with reusable solutions.
• Influence the roadmap: Translate customer needs and deployment friction into clear product requirements, and partner with product and engineering teams to shape how Stripe’s…

What they're looking for

• 7+ years of relevant experience in customer-facing technical delivery, solutions engineering, implementation, technical product management, or a related field
• Experience owning complex customer engagements from discovery and solution design through implementation or activation, including work across both pre- and post-sales phases
• Demonstrated success in ambiguous, 0→1 environments where the standard product, integration, or implementation pattern did not yet exist
• Strong understanding of APIs, integrations, application architecture, and data flows, with the judgment to distinguish implementation gaps from core product gaps
• Ability to prototype rapidly using modern AI coding harnesses and development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex

Tech stack

• Python
• TypeScript
• Java