Staff AI Engineer

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 building AI agents for the most complex audit and advisory workflows. 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.

• Set the architectural direction for Fieldguide's agentic systems and intelligence layer

• Identify and resolve systemic gaps that limit reliability scalability or product velocity

• Make high-leverage technical bets and drive them to completion across the organization

• Establish evaluation standards observability infrastructure and reliability frameworks at scale

• Own the most complex cross-cutting product areas end-to-end

• Design agent orchestration and retrieval systems that handle enterprise-grade complexity

• Lead the evolution of Fieldguide's LLM infrastructure: models prompts guardrails and feedback loops

• Prototype validate and harden novel approaches before sharing with the broader team

• Partner with Engineering leadership Product and Design to shape the AI roadmap

• Create reusable platforms patterns and tooling that multiply team velocity across the org

• Identify and develop the next generation of senior engineers

• Translate long-term product vision into concrete technical strategies

• Stay at the frontier of LLM and agent research; rapidly evaluate and adopt what matters

• Build internal knowledge and shared understanding of AI system design

• Contribute to Fieldguide's reputation as a technical leader in vertical AI

You’re a strong software engineer who’s built your skills for an AI-native world. These principles resonate with you:

• Technical depth with organizational influence: You lead through expertise not authority

• Systems thinker: You see second-order effects and design for them

• Strong product judgment: You prioritize ruthlessly and keep customer outcomes in focus

• Multiplier: You make everyone around you more effective—you don't just ship solo

• Principled pragmatism: You know when to push boundaries and when to ship what works

• End-to-end ownership: You own outcomes not just deliverables

We care more about capability and trajectory than years on a resume but most strong candidates have:

• 8+ years shipping production software with 3+ years leading complex AI/ML systems

• Deep expertise in TypeScript Python and distributed system design

• 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

• Enterprise-grade reliability: Building systems professionals depend on

• Human-in-the-loop design: Knowing when to automate vs. when to surface decisions

• Nuanced evaluation: Audits require judgment so feedback structures matter

• Explainability: Making AI outputs and reasoning transparent and trustworthy

• Complex domains: Navigating compliance and enterprise rigor while moving fast

• Shipping daily value: Delivering agent experiences customers use every day

• 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.

• Wellness benefits starting on your first day

• Fearless — Inspire and break down seemingly impossible walls

• Fast — Launch fast with excellence; iterate to perfection

• Lovable — Deliver happiness and 11-star experiences

• Owners — Execute and run the business with ownership

• Win-win — Create mutual value and earn trust for life

• Inclusive — Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams

What We Do

Fieldguide offers market-leading Artificial Intelligence and Cloud for Advisory and Audit firms. Built by former Big Four practitioners and veteran technology leaders our platform digitizes the end-to-end engagement workflow on a single cloud-native platform. Fieldguide's AI Advisory & Audit Cloud is trusted by top CPA firms to unlock growth increase margins and delight clients. Fieldguide AI is award winning being recognized by CPA Practice Advisor (3x Technology Innovation Award) and Accounting Today (2x Top New Product). Fieldguide is based in San Francisco and backed by top investors like 8VC Floodgate Y Combinator Fourth Realm Justin Kan Eric Ries and many more