Software Engineer, Agents (Internal Audit)

About the Role

You'll join a genuine 0→1 team on the ground floor of one of the company's biggest new bets. This seat is specifically product-focused: you'll own agent quality, ship agents that do real audit work, and work alongside practitioners.

Depending on your experience and what you're looking to own, you may join building within a major agent area, owning one end-to-end, or setting technical direction for agentic audit work across the team. We're hiring across all levels and will calibrate during interviews based on scope and demonstrated experience.

What You'll Do

• Make agent judgment repeatable: run error analysis on real testing data and turn findings into concrete fixes
• Tradeoffs such as quality/latency/cost across a long multi-phase run
• Build structured-output pipelines that turn model output into real audit artifacts
• Take ambiguous problem statements and turn them into a plan, a shipped feature, and a clear read on what was cut and why
• Work directly with an embedded subject matter expert and with design-partner firms, turning their feedback into agent changes within days
• Expand agent coverage into new controls and new areas of internal audit

Who You Are (All Levels)

• Product-minded and full-stack: you've shipped LLM-backed features to production against real users, and you measure yourself on whether they got used
• You're fluent in evals and error analysis, and you apply them in service of shipping something practitioners trust
• You have real opinions on model selection, prompting, and orchestration tradeoffs, and you can defend them with evidence rather than vibes
• Energized by 0→1 work: you'd rather define the problem than inherit a spec, and you don't stall on ambiguity
• Strong instincts for human-in-the-loop design
• A genuine team player across the organization, not just within engineering: you'll work daily with PM, design, domain experts, and customer-facing teams, and you treat that as the best part of the job
• Ship fast without leaving a mess: your code is reviewable, tested where it counts, and instrumented
• Able to internalize a hard domain fast. You don't need to know SOX today, but you'll understand it well enough to make the right product calls

Higher-Level Responsibilities

At the Senior level, you may:

• Own a major agent area end-to-end, from how the agent reasons about a class of controls through to the artifact a reviewer signs
• Set the evals and error-analysis practice for the team's agent work, and decide what evidence justifies shipping a change or rolling it back
• Collaborate with PMs and designers to shape roadmaps and define architectural tradeoffs, including where the agent acts and where the auditor decides
• Own the harder model and orchestration judgment calls across a long multi-phase run
• Mentor other engineers and raise the bar on 0→1 execution and applied eval rigor

At the Staff level, you may:

• Drive agent initiatives that reach beyond Internal Audit and influence how agents are built across Fieldguide
• Set and champion engineering standards for agent reliability, reproducibility, and defensibility
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to define long-term technical strategy for agentic audit work
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders across Engineering, Product, and Design
• Represent Fieldguide externally through writing, speaking, and open-source contributions

Experience

Must-have

• Shipped LLM-backed product features to production against real users
• Applied AI skillset: evals, error analysis, and model-selection decisions you owned and can explain
• Comfortable full-stack, with enough backend depth to work in agent orchestration
• Autonomy working from an ambiguous spec
• A collaborative mode that works across PM, design, and domain experts

Nice-to-have

• Python, TypeScript, React, Postgres, Hasura, GraphQL
• Temporal or comparable durable-execution / workflow orchestration
• Hands-on eval experience (Langfuse, Braintrust, LangSmith, Arize Phoenix, or comparable)
• Structured-output work including schema contracts, generating real artifacts from model output
• Startup experience, as a founder or as an early engineer
• A 0→1 track record: things you started where no scaffolding existed
• Experience working directly with customers, and comfort being in the room when they use what you built
• Background in internal audit, SOX, accounting, or another regulated domain
• Document processing, including PDF and Excel manipulation and annotation

Not a fit if

• Prompt engineering is your whole skill set
• Your agent work never carried production traffic
• You want to own eval methodology or the evaluation harness itself rather than ship product features (better fit on Foundation Agents)
• You need a fully specified ticket to start
• You'd rather not be in the room with customers and domain experts

What Should Excite You

• 0→1 on the biggest bet: You're building the agent and the product from scratch, on the ground floor of where the company is going
• Repeatable judgment: Making an agent reach the same defensible conclusion twice, in a domain where ground truth requires expert judgment
• Real audit stakes: Your work directly affects what firms put in front of their clients, and what a reviewer is willing to sign
• Customer proximity: Design-partner firms and an embedded SOX expert use what you ship within days of it landing
• Human-in-the-loop design: Deciding where the agent acts and where the auditor decides, on work that genuinely matters
• High trust, high autonomy: You're given ambiguous problems and trusted to define the plan

Benefits

• 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 your first day

Our Values

• Fearless — Inspire and break down seemingly impossible walls
• Fast — Launch fast with excellence; iterate to perfection
• Lovable — Deliver happiness and 11-star experiences
• Owners — Execute and run the business with ownership
• Win-win — Create mutual value and earn trust for life
• Inclusive — Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams