Fieldguide
Staff AI Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 88 days ago
TypeScriptPythonDistributed SystemsVector DatabasesMachine LearningLLMsRAGAgentic AILangGraphAI OrchestrationProduct StrategyAccountingResearchLeadershipMentoring
About the role
- This role is for experienced engineers who combine deep technical judgment with strong product instincts and organizational influence.
- Set the architectural direction for Fieldguide's agentic systems and intelligence layer
- Identify and resolve systemic gaps that limit reliability, scalability, or product velocity
Responsibilities
- You see second-order effects and design for them
- You own outcomes, not just deliverables
- As a Staff AI Engineer, you'll shape the technical direction of our intelligence layer-defining the architecture, standards, and roadmap that enable Fieldguide to build the most reliable AI agents in the enterprise.
- This role is for experienced engineers who combine deep technical judgment with strong product instincts and organizational influence. You'll operate across the engineering organization to drive impact that compounds over time.
- Make high-leverage technical bets and drive them to completion across the organization
- Own the most complex, cross-cutting product areas end-to-end
- Design agent orchestration and retrieval systems that handle enterprise-grade complexity
- You'll operate across the engineering organization to drive impact that compounds over time.
- Partner with Engineering leadership, Product, and Design to shape the AI roadmap
- Identify and develop the next generation of senior engineers
Requirements
- Principled pragmatism: You know when to push boundaries and when to ship what works
Skills
- 8+ years shipping production software, with 3+ years leading complex AI/ML systems
- Proven track record shipping LLM-powered products at enterprise scale
- Experience defining evaluation infrastructure and reliability standards for AI systems
- Mastery of retrieval architectures, RAG, vector databases, and embedding pipelines
- Hands-on with cutting-edge LLM APIs and agent frameworks (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, LangGraph, etc.)
- Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams or product areas
- Track record mentoring senior engineers and growing engineering culture
- Establish evaluation standards, observability infrastructure, and reliability frameworks at scale
Compensation
- Competitive compensation with equity
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with equity
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
- Flexible time off and work schedules
- Wellness benefits starting on your first day
Company info
- Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets by automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners-specifically in cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits. We build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
- We're based in San Francisco, CA, and built remote-first. We're backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, and more. Over 50 of the top 100 accounting and consulting firms trust Fieldguide to power mission-critical work.
- Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets by automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners-specifically in cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits.
- We build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
- We're based in San Francisco, CA, and built remote-first.
- We're backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, and more.
- Over 50 of the top 100 accounting and consulting firms trust Fieldguide to power mission-critical work.
- Delivering agent experiences customers use every day
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