About the Role
Serve as the primary driver of AI enablement and solutions engineering across all departments at Checkr. This hands-on role blends deep technical expertise with a passion for teaching and empowering others to unlock the full potential of AI.
Responsibilities
- Embed with internal teams to understand workflows, gather requirements, and identify AI use cases.
- Translate business needs into actionable technical solutions.
- Own and facilitate recurring AI office hours for support.
- Design and lead company-wide AI hackathons.
- Evaluate, configure, and recommend AI tools and platforms.
- Make informed build-vs-buy recommendations for AI tooling.
- Design, develop, and deploy custom AI solutions using LLMs, RAG architectures, and agentic workflows.
- Develop reusable playbooks, prompt libraries, workflow templates, and how-to guides.
- Architect and implement standardized, templatizable AI workflows.
- Lead hands-on training sessions, workshops, and demos on AI tools.
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams to integrate AI technologies.
- Contribute to the organizational AI strategy and roadmap.
- Present findings, demo solutions, and advocate for AI adoption to stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in engineering, solutions engineering, or technical enablement roles.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience developing AI-centric products and solutions.
- Deep proficiency in Python.
- Experience with AI frameworks and integration of LLM models into applications.
- Familiarity with cloud hosting platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Demonstrated ability to lead enablement programs.
- Proven experience gathering requirements from non-technical stakeholders.
- Exceptional ability to tackle open-ended, ambiguous problems.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- A builder’s mindset: comfortable architecting, coding, creating training decks, and facilitating workshops.
- A deep passion for AI and a desire to help others harness its potential.
Skills
- AI enablement
- Solutions engineering
- Machine learning
- Generative AI
- LLMs
- RAG architectures
- Agentic frameworks
- Prompt engineering
- Python
- AI frameworks
- LLM model integration
- Cloud hosting platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Enablement program leadership
- Requirements gathering
- Technical solution design
- Communication
- Presentation
- Workshop facilitation
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
- 3+ years of hands-on AI experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Graduate degree is a plus
Salary/Compensations
- $177,000—$208,000 USD
Benefits
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive cash and equity compensation
- Opportunity for advancement
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
- Flexible PTO policy
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Lunch five times a week
- Commuter stipend
- Relocation stipend may be available
About the Company
- Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions.
- Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification.
- Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, and Anthropic.
- Recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
Equal Opportunity
- Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences.
- Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.
