Software Engineer, Agents (Foundation Agents)

Fieldguide; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Health benefits

Flexible time off

Tech reimbursements

401(k) plan

In-person offsites

Wellness benefits

Job summary

Fieldguide is hiring for a role on the Foundation Agents team in San Francisco. You will own and evolve AI agents, focusing on long-horizon capabilities that perform real-world tasks and scale reliability across production systems.

The role emphasizes hands-on AI product development, robust evals, and backend engineering to ensure quality and platform stability. Competitive compensation with equity and in-person offsites across the U.S. are offered.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building AI products.
• Working knowledge of evals and error analysis.
• Backend engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain agent knowledge and evaluation infrastructure for Fieldguide's long-horizon agents.
• Build the next generation of agents at Fieldguide to solve complex customer use cases.
• Perform error analysis on agent behavior and translate findings into quality improvements.
• Build backend systems that support agent execution, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Partner with senior engineers to execute the platform's reliability and quality roadmap.

Skills

Hands-on AI products

Evals & error analysis

Backend engineering

Job description

About Us

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets by automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners—specifically in cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits. We build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.

About Us

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets by automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners—specifically in cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits. We build software for the people who enable trust between businesses. We're based in San Francisco, CA, and backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, and more. Over 50 of the top 100 accounting and consulting firms trust Fieldguide to power mission-critical work.

About The Role

The Foundation Agents team stewards the long-horizon agents powering the Fieldguide AI platform. We work at the frontier of AI product development: agent knowledge, evaluations, and improving quality and reliability at scale. If you're excited by long-horizon agents that do real-world work, this is the team for you.

What You’ll Own

• Build and maintain agent knowledge and evaluation infrastructure for Fieldguide's long-horizon agents
• Build our next generation of agents at Fieldguide, solving increasingly complex customer use cases
• Perform error analysis on agent behavior and help turn findings into concrete quality improvements
• Build backend systems that support agent execution, evaluation, and monitoring
• Partner with senior engineers on the team to execute the platform's reliability and quality roadmap

Who You Are

• You've built AI products, not just called an LLM API
• You're curious about evals and error analysis. You want to understand why an agent failed, not just that it did
• You're comfortable in the backend, with a bias toward reliable systems
• You're motivated by long-horizon agents that do real work in production

Experience

Must-have

• Hands-on experience building AI products
• Working knowledge of evals and error analysis
• Backend engineering experience

Nice-to-have

• Platform engineering skills
• Frontend experience
• Distributed systems experience

What Should Excite You

• Long-horizon agents: working on agents that do real, sustained work and not one-shot demos
• Evaluation as a craft: Evals and error analysis are core to how this team improves quality
• Platform-level impact: Your work shapes the reliability and quality of every agent built on top of it
• Frontier problems: You're working on open problems in agent reliability that don't yet have established playbooks

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

Compensation Range: $190K - $220K