Variance

Software Engineer, Agent

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3 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$165k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and ship production-grade AI agents for fraud, risk, and identity workflows at enterprise scale.
  • Design customer-specific technical evaluations and proof-of-concepts and drive pilots through production deployments.
  • Translate operational stakeholders’ judgment and customer edge cases into agent workflows, context, tools, and evaluation systems.
  • Own the agent development lifecycle from initial pilot through deployment and continuous iteration using production data.
  • Create customized demos and partner with sales on technical discovery and customer presentations.
  • Shape the product roadmap based on recurring patterns across customer deployments.

Requirements

  • 3–5 years of experience in customer-facing technical, forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or software engineering roles with direct customer exposure.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping end-to-end production systems.
  • Hands-on experience building with LLMs, including prompt engineering, context engineering, tool use, and evaluations.
  • Ability to turn ambiguous customer workflows into working systems and communicate complex technical concepts to engineers and executives.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience deploying agentic systems in production, fraud or risk domain knowledge, or experience shipping into regulated environments involving security reviews, data residency, or audits.

Benefits

  • Platinum-level medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Unlimited paid time off, sick leave, and parental leave.
  • Up to $100 per month in personal health and wellness reimbursement.
  • Up to $200 per month in commuter benefits.
  • Free lunch and dinner.
  • 401(k) plan with employer match after six months of eligibility.
  • Meaningful equity in a fast-growing Series A company.
  • In-person work from the company’s San Francisco, California office.

Categories

Forward Deployed
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