Brex

Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Agent Builder

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5 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$152k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with partner teams to understand workflows through shadowing and learning different job functions.
  • Scope, design, deploy, and iterate agents that automate workflows across internal organizations.
  • Integrate agents with internal systems, APIs, and data sources.
  • Define evaluation frameworks, success metrics, and feedback loops to measure and improve agent performance.
  • Build shared tooling and deployment playbooks while owning reliability, adoption, and business impact.

Requirements

  • At least four years of experience in engineering, technical product or program management, applied AI, or a similar technical role, with a record of shipping AI or automation systems to production.
  • Hands-on experience building with LLMs, agent frameworks, and tool-use patterns such as MCP, function calling, and RAG across data, APIs, orchestration, and product layers.
  • Experience designing and optimizing SQL and/or NoSQL databases, including data modeling, query performance tuning, and schema design.
  • Ability to decompose human workflows into scalable agentic systems.
  • Strong ownership and cross-functional influence, with the ability to build trust across teams and seniority levels.
  • Experience automating back-office functions is a bonus.
  • Experience with OpenClaw, Hermes, or other general-purpose agent harnesses is a bonus.

Benefits

  • The role is based in the San Francisco office with a hybrid schedule requiring at least three coordinated in-office days per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
  • Employees may work fully remotely for up to four weeks per year.

Tech Stack

Categories

Forward Deployed
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About Brex

10,000+ employees

Brex builds a spend management platform for businesses, combining corporate cards with expense management, bill pay, travel, and cash management software. It earns revenue from SaaS subscriptions and card interchange, and serves over 30,000 businesses including DoorDash and ServiceTitan. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.

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