Lead, AI Agent Systems for Finance

Poesis; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered lunches

Relocation allowance

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Poesis, a US-based AI-native investment firm, seeks an experienced software engineer to lead our agent engineering efforts in a hybrid role at our Menlo Park area office. The role focuses on translating frontier model capabilities into production systems and defining scalable architectures for agent-driven workflows.

You will collaborate with Poesis leaders to set the vision, guide the development roadmap, and ensure reliable deployment, observability, and risk-aware operations as the team

Qualifications

• 3+ years building software at a frontier AI lab, agentic startup, hedge fund, big tech, or similar.
• Strong familiarity with the modern AI stack (LLMs, tool use, orchestration, evaluation).
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, bonus for TypeScript, Go, or Rust.
• Basic understanding of financial markets and an investing interest.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and deploying multi-agent systems in production environments; agent orchestration, tool calling, context window management, and grounding.
• Proven ability to address failure modes with hands-on observability and evaluation of agent systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across the agent platform.
• Design and build early versions of agent-driven products and internal systems.
• Establish patterns and infrastructure for reliable agent deployment.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLMs

Agent orchestration

Observability

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Poesis, a US-based AI-native investment firm, seeks an experienced software engineer to lead our agent engineering efforts in a hybrid role at our Menlo Park area office. The role focuses on translating frontier model capabilities into production systems and defining scalable architectures for agent-driven workflows.

You will collaborate with Poesis leaders to set the vision, guide the development roadmap, and ensure reliable deployment, observability, and risk-aware operations as the team