Staff AI Engineer
FieldguideBase Salary
$240k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the architectural direction for Fieldguide’s agentic systems and intelligence layer.
- Identify and resolve systemic gaps affecting reliability, scalability, and product velocity.
- Establish evaluation standards, observability infrastructure, and reliability frameworks at scale.
- Own complex, cross-cutting product areas end-to-end.
- Design agent orchestration and retrieval systems for enterprise-grade complexity.
- Lead the evolution of LLM infrastructure, including models, prompts, guardrails, and feedback loops.
- Prototype, validate, and harden novel AI approaches before broader adoption.
- Partner with Engineering leadership, Product, and Design to shape the AI roadmap.
- Create reusable platforms, patterns, and tooling that increase organization-wide engineering velocity.
- Mentor senior engineers and contribute to engineering culture.
- Evaluate and adopt relevant advances in LLM and agent research and build internal knowledge of AI system design.
Requirements
- 8+ years shipping production software, with 3+ years leading complex AI/ML systems.
- Deep expertise in TypeScript, Python, and distributed system design.
- Proven experience 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 experience with cutting-edge LLM APIs and agent frameworks, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and LangGraph.
- Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams or product areas.
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers and growing engineering culture.
- Strong technical judgment, systems thinking, product judgment, organizational influence, and end-to-end ownership.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement
- 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 the first day
Tech Stack
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About Fieldguide
Fieldguide is a leading AI-native platform transforming how audit, advisory, and assurance work gets done. Purpose-built for regulated environments, Fieldguide brings professionals and agentic AI together to modernize engagement delivery from planning through close, enabling audit and advisory practitioners to deliver higher-quality work, strengthen client experiences, and unlock growth for the decade ahead. Fieldguide is trusted by leading firms including KPMG, RSM US LLP, Baker Tilly, CBIZ, BDO, Grant Thornton, Forvis Mazars, CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), CohnReznick, Wipfli LLP, Carr Riggs & Ingram, Cherry Bekaert, Aprio LLP, UHY Advisors Inc., Weaver, LBMC, Elliott Davis, Frazier & Deeter, Cohen & Co, BerryDunn, Schellman, and Warren Averett, among others. Fieldguide is also the recipient of the Accounting Today Top New Products Award as well as a five time winner of the CPA Practice Advisor Technology Innovation Award. Fieldguide is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Thomson Reuters, and other leading investors. Fieldguide announced its $75m series C in February 2026 and has raised $125m to date.