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Senior AI Engineer

Fieldguide
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$190k - $240kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior AI Engineer at Fieldguide, a vertical AI platform for audit and advisory firms. The role focuses on building AI agents for complex audit and advisory workflows, shipping production-grade agent systems, mentoring teammates, and shaping end-to-end AI-powered features for enterprise reliability and impact.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build agentic systems that automate complex audit workflows end-to-end
  • Translate customer problems into concrete agent behaviors and orchestration logic
  • Orchestrate LLMs, tools, retrieval, and business logic into reliable, production-grade agent experiences
  • Own agents across their lifecycle: delivery, reliability, performance, and observability
  • Use AI to accelerate design, build, test, and iteration cycles
  • Prototype quickly, then harden systems for enterprise-grade reliability
  • Build evaluation frameworks, feedback loops, and guardrails to improve agents over time
  • Design prompts, retrieval pipelines, and orchestration logic that perform at scale
  • Make clear trade-offs on what to build, cut, or skip based on customer value
  • Partner with Product and Design to define capabilities that deliver real outcomes
  • Stay close to customer workflows and optimize for highest-impact problems
  • Identify capability gaps and unblock team progress proactively
  • Raise the quality bar through code review, design feedback, and pairing
  • Create reusable abstractions, patterns, and tooling that increase team velocity
  • Share learnings across the team and establish engineering best practices

Qualifications

  • 3–6+ years shipping production software in complex, real-world systems
  • Strong command of TypeScript, Python, and Postgres
  • Shipped LLM-powered features serving real production traffic
  • Built retrieval pipelines and agent orchestration systems
  • Implemented evaluation frameworks for model outputs and agent behavior
  • Worked with vector databases, embedding models, and RAG architectures
  • Hands-on experience with modern LLM APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic) and agent frameworks
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and taking responsibility for outcomes

Skills

Required:Agent design and orchestrationLLM integration and toolingEvaluation frameworksRetrieval and RAG

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with equity
  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Flexible time off and work schedules
  • Technology reimbursements
  • 401(k) plan
  • Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the U.S.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Fieldguide

Vertical AI for Audit & Advisory Firms

‍Fieldguide is a vertical AI platform for modern assurance and advisory firms that digitizes the end-to-end engagement workflow on a single platform. Built by former Big Four practitioners and experienced technology leaders, Fieldguide is trusted by top CPA firms to improve margins, win new business, and build stronger client relationships. We’re based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're backed by top investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Y Combinator, Floodgate, Elad Gil, Justin Kan, Qasar Younis, Eric Ries, and more.

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