AI Solutions Engineering – Software Engineer

Chainguard

AI Solutions Engineer applying AI tooling for internal prototypes at Chainguard. Collaborating across teams to find and validate high-impact AI opportunities.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Find high-leverage opportunities: Run listening tours and current-state assessments across functions. Identify and prioritize the workflows where AI can deliver outsized impact, weighing impact potential against feasibility, and focus on opportunities that can materially bend the revenue/opex curve.
Prototype and validate: Take prioritized use cases from idea to working prototype — internal workflow automations, reusable prompt systems and templates, AI-enabled tools and assistants, and early workflow integrations — to test whether an opportunity is worth broader investment.
Partner across the business: Work directly with functional owners, the AI Enablement Council, and AI Ambassadors to understand real workflow needs, validate selected opportunities, and build the business case and evidence base needed to inform investment decisions.
Build responsibly: Build and test using approved tools and established Legal and Security review pathways. Validate outputs, ensure clear human review, and maintain strong data hygiene. No AI tool is used on Chainguard, customer, or personal data until it has cleared review.
Make it visible and reusable: Document what you built, the problem it solves, and what you learned. Share your work across the company through Builder Hours, demos, and showcases, and surface recurring technical needs and reuse opportunities back to the AI Enablement Council.
Set the standard for internal AI building: Model responsible, high-quality AI building so that what you prototype can be handed off, scaled, and maintained by the functional experts who own the workflow.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience: Minimum of 4 years building software, automation, or internal tooling, with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to drive ambiguous, zero-to-one work independently.
Applied AI tooling: Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) in real work, and building on top of LLM APIs — tool/function calling, agents, prompt and context engineering, RAG, and patterns like MCP.
Builder and integrator: Able to wire together APIs, automations, and integrations across the SaaS systems a company runs on (e.g., Slack, Google Workspace, GitHub, Linear) into reliable internal tools and prototypes.
Product and consulting sense: Comfortable talking with non-technical stakeholders, framing problems, sizing impact, and prioritizing by impact and feasibility — translating fuzzy needs into shippable prototypes.
Development: Programming proficiency in at least one language, with strong preference for Go and/or Python.
Responsible-use mindset: Respects security, legal, and data-handling guardrails, and treats responsible AI use as part of doing the job well.
Communication: Strong communication skills, proficiency in English, and the ability to work autonomously in a remote, globally distributed team — taking initiative and seeking help proactively when needed.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmentautomationinternal toolingAI toolingLLM APIsAPI integrationprompt engineeringprogramming (Go)programming (Python)data hygiene

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcommunicationautonomyinitiativecollaborationconsultingprioritizationframing problemsresponsible use mindsetadaptability