This role pays more than
90%
of similar roles. Most pay
$162,000–$267,050
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$300k
versus about
$215k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Plaid
Plaid is a financial technology company that builds a data network powering digital finance applications, enabling consumers to securely connect their financial accounts to apps and services. Industry: Financial Technology & Data Infrastructure
Plaid currently has
35 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$190,800–$262,800
across 35 roles with salary data.
Engineering Manager, AI Applications will lead a newly formed team of four engineers to accelerate the company’s transition into an AI-first organization. The role involves defining long-term strategy and managing execution in partnership with technical and product leaders. Key responsibilities include developing integration patterns for AI providers, building official MCP Servers, redefining consumer link experiences for conversational interfaces, and architecting trust layers for agentic commerce. Additionally, the manager will scale internal customer support agents by implementing multi-turn systems, offline evaluation, RLHF, and long-term memory architectures. The ideal candidate possesses experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, semantic search, vector databases, and agent orchestration frameworks. This role addresses the challenge of integrating financial data into AI-powered products while navigating privacy-sensitive environments to create seamless conversational interfaces for managing personal finances and automated commerce.
What does a Engineering Manager earn in California?
Median $290250 from 64 postings across 19 companies.
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
LLMs
Computer Vision
CUDA
C++
C
OpenMP
MPI
pthreads
GPU Architecture
Parallel Programming
Linear Algebra
Performance Optimization
Multimodal Architectures
AI Agent Development
Python
Java
LangChain
LLM Orchestration
Prompt Engineering
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Microservices
Kafka
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Hugging Face
Anthropic SDK
Pydantic AI
DORA Metrics
SPACE Metrics
NoSQL