Campfire
AI Engineer - Agents
$180K–$300K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
About the job
Build and operate production AI agents that automate accounting workflows and help customers understand and act on financial data.
What you'll do
- Shape agent architecture and ship customer-facing features.
- Own agent quality in production through evaluations, tracing, monitoring, and debugging.
- Lead complex technical initiatives, make architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and establish reliable engineering practices.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering background and substantial experience building and operating production backend systems; maintainable Python and sound judgment across APIs, data models, distributed systems, and testing.
- Hands-on experience shipping customer-facing LLM agents, including tool calling, orchestration, retrieval, and application-data and workflow integration.
- Experience owning production agent quality and making practical decisions about permissions, data access, human approvals, and recovery from partial failures.
- Track record of staff-level impact, including leading complex initiatives, cross-team architectural decisions, mentoring, and raising engineering standards.
Nice to have
- Prior fintech or accounting experience.
Pay
$180K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
Python
AI focus
Develop and operate customer-facing AI agents for accounting and financial workflows, including agent architecture, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, monitoring, and reliability.
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