Senior Software Engineer, Agents (Foundation Agents)
- Salary
- $225K - $250K
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- Hybrid · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 16 September 2026.
About the role
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. As a Senior Software Engineer, Agents, you'll take ownership of how the team measures and improves agent quality, and help drive the platform forward.
What You’ll Own
- Evals strategy and error-analysis practice, shaping how the team measures and improves agent quality
- Design and build agent knowledge and evaluation infrastructure for Fieldguide's long-horizon agents
- Lead error analysis on agent behavior, turning findings into concrete platform-level reliability improvements
- Build and harden backend systems that support agent execution, evaluation, and monitoring at scale
- Drive the AI platform's reliability and quality roadmap forward, working closely with the broader AI team
- Mentor engineers on the team, raising the bar on eval rigor and error-analysis practice
Who You Are
- You've built AI products end-to-end, with real ownership over agent quality outcomes
- You think in evals and error analysis as a discipline; you dig into why an agent failed and fix the systemic cause
- You're strong in the backend and comfortable owning platform-level systems
- You're motivated by long-horizon agents that do real work in production
- You multiply the people around you, not just your own output
Experience
Must-have:
- 1+ years working specifically on agents
- Strong experience working on an AI platform
- Demonstrated experience building evals and performing error analysis
- Backend engineering experience
Nice-to-have:
- Strong platform engineering skills
- Frontend experience
- Distributed systems experience
What Should Excite You
- Long-horizon agents: Working on agents that do real, sustained work
- Evaluation as a craft: Evals and error analysis are core to how this team improves quality, not an afterthought
- 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 have established playbooks yet
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
What this role asks for
In most of Fieldguide's ads
Cybersecurity
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
Read against Fieldguide's other open postings on this site.
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 16 open in Engineering. 3 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in January: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Cybersecurity (14 of 16), PostgreSQL (11 of 16), LLM (10 of 16), TypeScript (10 of 16), React (9 of 16), GraphQL (8 of 16), Python (8 of 16)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Manager, Deployed Engineering posted Oct 14
- Head of Deployed Engineering posted Oct 14
- Software Engineer, Quality & Automation posted Sep 24
- Software Engineer, Internal Audit (All Levels) posted Sep 17
- Software Engineer, Agents (Internal Audit) posted Sep 17
- Software Engineer, Agents (Foundation Agents) posted Sep 16
- Staff Software Engineer, Audit (Full Stack) posted May 26
- Senior Software Engineer, Audit (Full Stack) posted May 26
- Staff Software Engineer, App Platform posted May 16
- Senior AI Engineer, Quality posted Apr 20
- Software Engineer - All Levels (Korea) posted Mar 31
- Senior AI Engineer (Korea) posted Mar 26
- AI Engineer (Korea) posted Mar 26
- Senior Infrastructure Engineer posted Feb 27
- Software Engineer (All Levels) posted Jan 7
From the team and dates on Fieldguide's own job board.
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