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AI Engineer - Agents in USA

Campfire
Full time
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USA
09/15/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Design, build, deploy, and operate production AI agents that automate financial workflows and help customers use their accounting data.
Develop agent capabilities including tool calling, orchestration, retrieval, and integration with application data and workflows.
Own production agent quality through evaluations, tracing, monitoring, and systematic debugging.
Design safeguards for permissions, data access, human approvals, and recovery from partial failures.
Shape agent architecture, make architectural decisions across teams, and balance accuracy, latency, cost, and complexity.
Lead complex initiatives, mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and collaborate with engineering, product, and design while remaining hands-on.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience owning consequential production systems.
Strong backend software engineering experience, including maintainable Python and sound judgment around APIs, data models, distributed systems, and testing.
Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered agents used by real customers, including tool calling, orchestration, retrieval, and workflow integration.
Experience improving AI agents based on real usage and operating them in production.
Experience making architectural decisions, leading complex initiatives, mentoring engineers, and influencing engineering standards at staff level.
Ability to evaluate when to use an agent, a deterministic workflow, or a combination of both, while balancing accuracy, latency, cost, and complexity.
Clear technical communication, cross-functional collaboration, ownership, and curiosity about accounting and financial workflows.
Prior fintech or accounting experience is a plus.

Salary: $180k - $300k/yr

Campfire

Campfire builds an AI-native ERP for finance and accounting teams, unifying general ledger, revenue automation, and close management in a single platform. It sells subscription software to mid-market and enterprise companies and integrates with tools like Ramp, Rippling, and Salesforce. Founded i...

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