Senior Staff AI Enablement Engineer

WA - Seattle; CA - San Francisco. Posted 4 days ago

The role

You will own the strategy and day-to-day operation of the MCP gateway platform. You will design customer experiences for AI tool access and partner with security and engineering teams to enable AI productivity.

What you will do

Own the MCP gateway platform end to end.
Design the customer experience for AI tool access.
Partner with Product Security and IAM on MCP approval and threat modeling.
Run operations for the platform including support models and monitoring.
Drive adoption and measure impact by defining usage and value metrics.
Automate access governance and integrate with joiner/mover/leaver processes.
Set technical direction for emerging agent and tool-access standards.
Mentor and influence IC1–IC4 engineers and analysts.

Required qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree + 4+ Years of Experience OR Master’s Degree + 3+ Years of Experience in software engineering or a related field.
Track record of owning complex, companywide programs or platforms.
Hands-on experience with LLM and agent tooling: MCP servers and clients, API gateways, and AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot.
Deep knowledge of identity and access: SSO/SAML, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, SCIM, Okta, and least-privilege and RBAC design.
Strong integration and automation skills including REST/GraphQL APIs, scripting (Python, TypeScript, or similar), iPaaS (Workato or similar), and ServiceNow workflows.
Experience operating in a regulated environment.
Ability to translate between security, engineering, and business stakeholders, and to influence without authority.

Nice to have

Experience building or running an AI gateway, API gateway, or developer platform (e.g., Cequence, Kong, Apigee).
Experience building Slack bots, deflection bots, or agentic workflows for IT or employee support.
Familiarity with AI governance frameworks (NIST AI RMF) and LLM security risks (OWASP LLM Top 10, prompt injection, tool poisoning).
Experience in financial services

About the company

SoFi is a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology. They aim to change how people think about and interact with personal finance.