21 hours ago
Boston, MA, USA +21 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$102k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, maintain, and continuously improve AI agents and agent-assisted workflows for Crowe’s Audit practice.
- Partner directly with Audit practitioners as a forward-deployed engineer to understand workflows and build solutions alongside subject matter experts.
- Write, review, test, and maintain substantial Python codebases, agent Skills, instructions, prompts, and supporting resources.
- Manage scope, timelines, prioritization, stakeholder communication, and end-to-end delivery for owned agents.
- Design reusable Skills-based architectures and serve as the technical authority for the agent layer.
- Implement monitoring, observability, alerting, and trace-level visibility for production agents.
- Build and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for agent testing, evaluation, and deployment.
- Develop agent evaluation strategies, including test cases, automated evaluators, regression testing, accuracy metrics, and failure-mode analysis.
- Establish engineering patterns and practices for sustainably developing, deploying, supporting, and enhancing a growing agent portfolio.
- Mentor engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and provide technical leadership as the team grows.
- Use ROI, business cases, value pools, and KPIs to guide product decisions and communicate business impact.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience developing, implementing, and supporting enterprise applications and services.
- At least 5 years of professional Python development experience building enterprise-grade applications and services.
- At least 1 year of hands-on experience designing, developing, and productionizing AI agents or AI-assisted workflows using a major AI platform or model provider.
- Experience building agents with a Skills-based architecture, including Skills definitions, markdown instructions, supporting resources, and executable code.
- Experience testing and evaluating AI systems through automated evaluators, representative test cases, regression testing, and failure-mode analysis.
- Experience with AI-assisted software engineering practices, coding assistants, automated testing, and design-time AI tools.
- Demonstrated project management experience scoping, planning, and managing technical initiatives end to end.
- Experience mentoring software engineers, conducting code and design reviews, and establishing engineering practices and standards.
- Experience designing and deploying AI/ML solutions on AWS, Azure, and/or GCP using managed AI services, cloud-native integration patterns, scalable data architectures, and secure enterprise deployments.
- Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines or a similar platform, plus Git-based version control.
- Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical work to business leaders and translating requirements into practical solutions.
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience is preferred.
- Experience in Audit, accounting, public accounting, financial services, or another regulated industry is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes MCP, A2A, Microsoft Foundry, OpenAI Agent SDK, Microsoft Agent Framework, Claude SDK, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Microsoft Copilot Studio, RAG, vector databases, embeddings, .NET, C#, and SQL Server.
- Prior forward-deployed or embedded technical experience, consulting, product management, investment banking, or startup experience is preferred.
- Demonstrated curiosity and continuous learning in generative AI and applied machine learning, including engagement with research and technical papers.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Comprehensive total rewards package.
- Inclusive culture with diversity, career growth, and consistent Career Coach meetings.
- Employees are expected to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ApplicationsForward Deployed
About Crowe LLP
Crowe LLP is a public accounting and consulting partnership based in Chicago that provides audit, tax, advisory, and technology-enabled consulting to companies, nonprofits, and public-sector clients. It operates as part of the Crowe Global network, which includes 300+ independent firms across 150+ countries. Founded in 1942, Crowe serves U.S. and international clients across regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and the public sector.