Lead the development of AI products at FloQast, architecting scalable systems and ensuring integration with multiple technologies, while providing mentorship to the AI team.
As a Staff AI Engineer on our Core AI team, you will be a cornerstone of FloQast's AI transformation. You will architect, build, and scale the AI products that power our accounting automation platform and enable our vision of an AI accountant teammate. This role requires deep expertise in production AI systems and a passion for solving complex accounting workflow challenges. You will not only build AI applications but also shape the technical direction of AI across FloQast, establishing the platform and standards that enable distributed AI execution company-wide.
What You'll Do
- Architect and lead development of production AI products including intelligent chatbots, document processing systems, and agentic workflows using Python and modern AI frameworks
- Design and implement our centralized AI platform including model routing, provider management, vector search, and AI application frameworks with seamless MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations
- Build scalable AI products that integrate with diverse technologies including accounting systems, document repositories, and external APIs while maintaining robust monitoring and observability
- Master context engineering and system design for AI applications, ensuring optimal information retrieval, context assembly, and multi-turn conversation management
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Security teams to ensure AI products are robust, compliant, and aligned with business objectives in the regulated accounting space
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the growing AI team, establishing best practices for AI product development, deployment, and governance
What You'll Bring
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with 4+ years focused on building backend for production applications
- Mastery of Python, Familiarity with some AI application frameworks, context engineering, and scalable system design for AI products
- Expertise in designing products that integrate with multiple technologies, APIs, and data sources in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred)
- Strong desire to develop deep hands-on experience with LLM APIs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), conversational AI, document processing, and MCP integrations
- Proven ability to lead tech product initiatives, establish technical standards and communicate complex system designs to both technical and business stakeholders
Nice To Haves/Other
- Experience building chatbots or conversational AI products in production
- Background in system integration, API design, or enterprise software platforms
- Familiarity with accounting workflows and financial data processing
- Experience with AI observability, debugging tools, and production AI monitoring
- Hands-on experience with advanced RAG architectures, reranking systems, and retrieval optimization techniques
- Knowledge of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) or other RL techniques for improving AI product performance
- Experience building AI platform components like embedding pipelines, semantic search systems, or multi-modal processing frameworks
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This job posting is for our Staff Software Engineer, the base pay range for this position is $164,000 - $246,000. Compensation is not limited to base salary. FloQast values our Total Rewards, and offers a competitive and elaborate Benefits Package including, but not limited to, Medical, Dental, Vision, Family Forming benefits, Life & Disability Insurance, and Unlimited Vacation. FloQast reserves the right to amend, change, alter, and revise pay ranges and benefits offerings at any time. All applicants acknowledge that by applying to this position you understand that this specific pay range is contingent upon meeting the qualifications and requirements of the role, and for the successful completion of the interview selection and process. It is at the Company's discretion to determine what pay is provided to a candidate within the range associated with the role.
About FloQast:
FloQast is the leading Accounting Transformation Platform in accounting workflow automation created by actual former accountants for accountants. By streamlining and modernizing daily accounting tasks, FloQast helps teams collaborate more effectively and complete their work with greater efficiency and precision. This cloud-based, AI-powered software is trusted by over 3,000 accounting teams, including those at Snowflake, Twilio, Instacart, and The Golden State Warriors—and continues to grow. Our mission is to continuously elevate the accounting profession, enhancing both its practice and perception.
Our values act as a guiding compass, shaping every decision we make, and are non-negotiable, particularly in our hiring process. Alongside our employees, partners, and customers, we embody these values every day:
Unwaveringly Authentic
Ambitious with Integrity
Empowered to Grow
Committed to Collaboration
Customer Obsessed in All Ways
FloQast is regularly rated as a Best Place to Work!
- Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces in 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021
- Best Places to Work by LA Business Journal since 2017 (that’s 8 years!)
- Built In’s Best Place to Work in Los Angeles 6 years in a row!
Because we are Customer Obsessed in All Ways, check out what our customers have to say about FloQast on G2 Crowd.
If this aligns closely with what you are looking for, hit “Apply” and come join our growing team!
FloQast, Inc is committed to operating fair and unbiased recruitment procedures allowing all applicants an equal opportunity for employment, free from discrimination on the basis of religion, race, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, color, ethnic or national origin, or any other classification as may be protected by applicable law. We aim to recruit the right people for the jobs we have to offer, and to assess applications on the basis of relevant skills, education, and experience. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and strive to provide a professional and welcoming workplace for all employees.
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Top Skills
Ai Frameworks
APIs
AWS
Conversational Ai
Llm Apis
Python
Rag
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