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Staff Software Engineer, AI

FloQast· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Jose, CA), Hybrid (Los Angeles, CA)Full-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Staff AI Engineer on FloQast's Core AI team to architect, build, and scale AI products for the accounting automation platform; lead technical direction, establish platform standards, and drive AI adoption across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and lead development of production AI products including intelligent chatbots, document processing systems, and agentic workflows using Python and modern AI frameworks
  • Design and implement our centralized AI platform including model routing, provider management, vector search, and AI application frameworks with seamless MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations
  • Build scalable AI products that integrate with diverse technologies including accounting systems, document repositories, and external APIs while maintaining robust monitoring and observability
  • Master context engineering and system design for AI applications, ensuring optimal information retrieval, context assembly, and multi-turn conversation management
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Security teams to ensure AI products are robust, compliant, and aligned with business objectives in the regulated accounting space
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the growing AI team, establishing best practices for AI product development, deployment, and governance

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with 4+ years focused on building backend for production applications
  • Mastery of Python, Familiarity with some AI application frameworks, context engineering, and scalable system design for AI products
  • Expertise in designing products that integrate with multiple technologies, APIs, and data sources in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred)
  • Strong desire to develop deep hands-on experience with LLM APIs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), conversational AI, document processing, and MCP integrations
  • Proven ability to lead tech product initiatives, establish technical standards and communicate complex system designs to both technical and business stakeholders

Skills

Required:Backend software engineeringPythonLLM APIs
Nice to have:RAG / retrieval-augmented generation

Benefits

  • FloQast is committed to operating fair and unbiased recruitment procedures... (see job description for complete statement)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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