FloQast · 6 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Core AI
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$164K/yr - $246K/yr
10+ years expFloQast is the leading Accounting Transformation Platform focused on automating accounting workflows. The Staff AI Engineer will architect and scale AI products that enhance the accounting automation platform, driving the technical direction of AI initiatives across the company.
AccountingB2BEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Family Forming benefits
Life & Disability Insurance
Unlimited Vacation
Company
FloQast
FloQast is a financial close management software designed to streamline the month-end close process for accounting teams.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$302.85MKey Investors
ICONIQ GrowthMeritech Capital PartnersNorwest
2024-04-10Series E· $100M
2021-07-21Series D· $110M
2020-01-21Series C· $40M
Leadership Team
Mike Whitmire
Co-Founder and CEO
Cullen Zandstra
Co-Founder & CTO
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