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Senior Software Engineer, AI Enablement
Chime Financial INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA, USA
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 81 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 20 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Chime Financial INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles21 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $175k–$225k, median $200k. Most were filed at wage level II (48%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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Sponsor Radar — Chime Financial INC
The US Department of Labor certified 81 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 20 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
About the role As a Senior Software Engineer on the AI Enablement team, you will build the internal platforms, primitives, and guardrails that make AI a trusted co-pilot for employees across Chime. You’ll work on systems like Archimedes , Bosun , and easyRAG that power internal AI assistants, developer workflows, and retrieval-backed applications. These platforms make it easier for teams across the company to build, adopt, and scale LLM-powered tools safely and effectively. This team defines Chime’s golden paths for AI : opinionated but flexible patterns that help teams move quickly while maintaining safety, reliability, cost control, and governance. In this role, you’ll help turn emerging AI capabilities into durable, reusable platform features that can be adopted across the company. You’ll partner closely with Platform Engineering, Security, Risk, Legal, and product teams to build scalable, well-governed systems that support internal AI use cases from early prototyping through production adoption. In this role, you can expect to • Build and evolve internal AI platforms such as Archimedes, Bosun, and easyRAG , enabling teams to develop and scale LLM-powered applications and workflows • Design and implement reusable platform capabilities such as APIs, SDKs, templates, and shared services that make it easier to build safe, high-quality AI-powered tools • Prototype and productionize new AI capabilities, identifying high-leverage use cases and turning successful patterns into durable platform features • Define and improve Chime’s golden path patterns for LLM usage, balancing developer velocity with safety, reliability, and cost efficiency • Develop systems that let teams launch AI-powered assistants and workflows in a standardized, observable, and governed way • Establish evaluation, observability, and cost-management practices across AI systems, including quality, latency, safety, and spend • Partner with Security, Risk, and Legal to implement practical guardrails for responsible AI development and usage • Drive consistency and standardization in how AI systems are built, deployed, and operated across the company • Collaborate with engineers and partner teams across Chime to embed AI into internal tools, workflows, and employee experiences To thrive in this role, you have • Significant experience as a software engineer building distributed systems, platform services, or internal developer tools • Hands-on experience building with LLMs or ML services and shipping production-quality features on top of them • Strong coding skills in at least one of Python, Go, or TypeScript/JavaScript , with comfort working across services, CLIs, and internal tooling • A platform mindset: you think in reusable primitives, contracts, and paved roads rather than one-off solutions • Familiarity with AI-specific engineering concerns such as evaluation, prompt and version management, observability, cost control, safety, and data privacy • Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders such as Security, Risk, Product, and Operations, and influencing direction through strong technical judgment • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences • Engineers are required to participate in on-call rotation. Being on call may include responding to incidents outside of regular working hours when necessary. #LI-Remote #LI-WW1 Below is the base salary offered for this role and level of experience. Full-time employees may also be eligible for bonus(es), competitive equity, and benefits. For commissioned roles, the base salary listed in this job description does not include incentive/variable pay. The actual base salary offered may be h