Staff AI Solutions Engineer

About Checkr

Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Checkr's innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including Amazon, DoorDash, Kia, Kimpton, McDonalds, and Netflix.

Join the IT Engineering team as a Staff AI Solutions Engineer, where you will serve as the primary driver of AI enablement and solutions engineering across all departments at Checkr. This is a highly visible, hands-on role that blends deep technical expertise with a passion for teaching and empowering others. You will lead the charge on understanding team-specific requirements, configuring and evaluating AI tools, building bespoke AI-powered solutions, and standing up templatizable workflows that scale across the organization. From running office hours and hackathons to creating reusable resources and training materials, you will be the go-to person for helping every team at Checkr unlock the full potential of AI.

What you'll do

• Requirements Gathering & Enablement: Embed with internal teams across departments to deeply understand their workflows, gather requirements, identify high-impact AI use cases, and translate business needs into actionable technical solutions.
• Lead Office Hours & Hackathons: Own and facilitate recurring AI office hours for drop-in support and guidance. Design and lead company-wide AI hackathons that inspire experimentation, knowledge sharing, and the discovery of innovative use cases.
• AI Tool Configuration & Evaluation: Evaluate, configure, and recommend the right AI tools and platforms for the organization. Stay on top of the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape and make informed build-vs-buy recommendations.
• Build Bespoke AI Solutions: Design, develop, and deploy custom AI solutions tailored to specific team needs — leveraging LLMs, RAG architectures, agentic workflows, and automation frameworks to solve real business problems.
• Create Resources & Artifacts: Develop reusable playbooks, prompt libraries, workflow templates, how-to guides, and reference architectures.
• Templatize AI Workflows: Architect and implement standardized, templatizable AI workflows that can be adapted and deployed across multiple teams.
• Training & Teaching: Lead hands-on training sessions, workshops, and demos to teach teams how to effectively use AI tools.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Engineers, Business Systems, Security, Data Engineering, and other AI Solutions Engineers to integrate AI technologies into existing systems.
• Strategic Planning & Roadmapping: Contribute to the AI strategy and roadmap at the organizational level.
• Communicate & Evangelize: Present findings, demo solutions, share progress updates, and advocate for AI adoption.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent experience. A graduate degree is a plus.
• 5-7+ years of experience in engineering, solutions engineering, or technical enablement roles, with a track record of deploying solutions that measurably enhance productivity.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience developing AI-centric products and solutions, including machine learning, generative AI, LLMs, RAG architectures, agentic frameworks, and prompt engineering.
• Deep proficiency in Python and experience with AI frameworks and tools such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, OpenAI API, and similar; familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Demonstrated ability to lead enablement programs — including running office hours, hackathons, training sessions, and creating scalable documentation and resources.
• Proven experience gathering requirements from non-technical stakeholders and translating them into well-scoped technical solutions.
• Exceptional ability to tackle open-ended, ambiguous problems in unstructured environments.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• A builder's mindset: comfortable architecting a solution, writing production code, creating a training deck, and facilitating a workshop.

What you'll get

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive compensation
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
• Flexible PTO policy
• Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA): $177,000 — $208,000 USD

In-office work environment expected 3+ days a week. Hub locations: Denver CO, San Francisco CA, Nashville TN, Santiago Chile.