Founding AI Engineer — Autonomous Accounting Systems

Specter; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Specter is seeking a lead for autonomous accounting to own the agent loop, context systems, and production-ready infrastructure that can act on real general ledgers without breaking them. You’ll tackle hard problems like giving an agent a defensible view of a company’s books, measuring decisions, and making the system better every week.

You will design architectures for accounting workflows, build the knowledge capture of customer domains, and develop evals with customer-specific tests and

Qualifications

• Experience with modern LLMs and agent-based systems.
• Ability to model complex accounting workflows.
• Proven track record shipping production systems.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity in new architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design architectures for accounting workflows where decisions cost dollars.
• Build systems to capture customer domain knowledge and make it retrievable.
• Develop evals predicting production behavior with fixtures and criteria.
• Turn research into constrained experiments with gates and audits.
• Set technical direction for how agents reason, retrieve, verify, and improve.

Skills

LLM systems

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Latency optimization

Agent loops

Cost awareness

Tools

Evaluation frameworks

Retrieval systems

Audit trails

Open-source agent libs

Job description

Specter is seeking a lead for autonomous accounting to own the agent loop, context systems, and production-ready infrastructure that can act on real general ledgers without breaking them. You’ll tackle hard problems like giving an agent a defensible view of a company’s books, measuring decisions, and making the system better every week.

You will design architectures for accounting workflows, build the knowledge capture of customer domains, and develop evals with customer-specific tests and