<h2><strong>Who we are </strong></h2> <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.</span></p> <h3>About the team</h3> <p>The AI Build team is a new, industry-focused team dedicated to building with the world’s leading and fastest-scaling AI companies. We work alongside Stripe’s AI Solutions Architecture and GTM teams, and across Stripe’s product suite to help customers adopt emerging products, close interoperability and 0→1 solution gaps, and bring field learning directly into Stripe’s product roadmap. The team owns strategic proof-of-concept engagements across the pre- and post-sales lifecycle, complementing Stripe’s AI account teams and the product depth of Stripe’s specialist teams.</p> <h2><strong>What you'll do </strong></h2> <p>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. You’ll own complex proof-of-concept engagements on Stripe’s frontier products, from initial scoping through activation and handoff, combining customer discovery, solution design, rapid prototyping, and cross-functional leadership. You won’t simply implement a finished product: you’ll build with customers, identify where Stripe’s products or integrations need to evolve, and help customers feel as though they are inside our product roadmap.</p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Own strategic POCs end to end: </strong>Sell, scope, and lead proof-of-concept engagements from initial customer commitment through activation.</li> <li><strong>Build with customers: </strong>Work deeply with users’ engineers and technical leaders to understand their workflows, rapidly prototype solutions, and establish credible paths to production.</li> <li><strong>Design across Stripe: </strong>Create solutions that span multiple Stripe products and determine whether blockers require configuration, integration work, custom development, or a core product change.</li> <li><strong>Close 0→1 gaps: </strong>Navigate incomplete products, evolving requirements, and interoperability gaps while balancing immediate customer outcomes with reusable solutions.</li> <li><strong>Influence the roadmap: </strong>Translate customer needs and deployment friction into clear product requirements, and partner with product and engineering teams to shape how Stripe’s frontier products are built.</li> <li><strong>Lead cross-functionally: </strong>Coordinate AI account teams, AI and specialist Solutions Architects, product and engineering teams, Professional Services, and post-sales technical resources across the engagement lifecycle of new builds and deployments.</li> <li><strong>Create repeatable patterns: </strong>Turn successful customer-specific work into reusable prototypes, reference architectures, implementation playbooks, and solution components.</li> <li><strong>Stay close to the AI frontier: </strong>Operate at the pace and in the working style of AI-native companies, and remain current on emerging companies, products, business models, and technical developments across the industry.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2> <p>You are a customer-oriented technical builder who thrives in ambiguous, fast-moving environments. You build trusted relationships with engineers, technical leaders, and senior stakeholders, and you are equally comfortable discovering an unclear problem, designing an architecture, prototyping a solution, and coordinating teams through activation. You use code pragmatically to accelerate your work. You communicate clearly, lead through influence, and look for patterns that can turn one customer engagement into a better product or repeatable approach for many customers.</p> <h3><strong>Minimum requirements</strong></h3> <ul> <li>7+ years of relevant experience in customer-facing technical delivery, solutions engineering, implementation, technical product management, or a related field</li> <li>Experience owning complex customer engagements from discovery and solution design through implementation or activation, including work across both pre- and post-sales phases</li> <li>Demonstrated success in ambiguous, 0→1 environments where the standard product, integration, or implementation pattern did not yet exist</li> <li>Strong understanding of APIs, integrations, application architecture, and data flows, with the judgment to distinguish implementation gaps from core product gaps</li> <li>Ability to prototype rapidly using modern AI coding harnesses and development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex</li> <li>Working proficiency in one or more relevant languages, such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Ruby; depth in a particular language is less important than the ability to learn quickly and build credible prototypes</li> <li>Ability to build trusted relationships with customer