AI Solutions Engineering - Software Engineer

• Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure
• production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant
• Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
• Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
• The role, in a nutshell:
• Chainguard is becoming an AI company
• we’re hiring an AI Solutions Engineer to make that real in the daily work of every team. This is a dedicated, hands-on role with a clear mission: find the highest-leverage opportunities where AI can materially change the economics of how Chainguard operates — revenue, efficiency
• quality — and build the working prototypes that prove they work.
• The role is part internal consultant, part builder. You’ll partner with functional owners across the company (Engineering, GTM, Product, Operations
• beyond), the AI Enablement Council
• our AI Ambassadors to take prioritized use cases from idea to validated prototype. You’ll turn promising ideas into internal workflow automations, reusable prompt systems, AI-enabled tools and assistants
• early integrations — using approved tools, keeping humans in the loop
• holding a high security and quality bar.
• This is an applied tooling and building role, not a research role. You’ll work with tools like Claude Code, the Anthropic API, Glean
• the systems Chainguard already runs on. Your job is to reduce the frustration of great ideas stalling for lack of capacity or technical skill — and to build the evidence base that tells the company where to invest next

What You’ll Do

• 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
• 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
• 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
• AI Ambassadors to understand real workflow needs, validate selected opportunities
• 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
• maintain strong data hygiene. No AI tool is used on Chainguard, customer
• personal data until it has cleared review.
• Make it visible and reusable: Document what you built, the problem it solves
• what you learned. Share your work across the company through Builder Hours, demos
• 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

What We’re Looking For

• 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
• building on top of LLM APIs — tool/function calling, agents, prompt and context engineering, RAG
• 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.
• This role is about applying AI tooling and building internal prototypes across the business — not training, fine-tuning
• building foundation models from scratch. It also does not own product roadmap work, independent tool purchasing
• any path that bypasses Legal and Security review.
• Nice to haves:
• Agent ecosystems: Experience building agent skills, MCP servers, or orchestration and automation frameworks.
• From idea to adoption: A track record of turning internal workflow ideas into tools that teams actually adopt.
• Cross-functional background: Experience in internal consulting, solutions engineering, or forward-deployed/applied roles.
• Open Source: Actively involved in the open-source community.
• Security: Interest in software supply chain security, secure SDLC, or responsible AI governance.
• Explore our work:
• https://www.chainguard.dev
• Chainguard Academy
• About Us
• We live and breathe our company values:
• We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
• We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
• We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
• A few of the benefits we offer:
• 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.
• If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
• Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions
• related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity
• other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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