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# Agent Architect, Audit at Fieldguide

- **Company:** Fieldguide
- **Location:** San Francisco CA OR, United States
- **Compensation:** $200k–$235k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fieldguide/aabb5e45-3c31-4531-8b57-a41d88640e37

## Job description

## About Us

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audit. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.

We’re based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.

We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth.

As an early stage start-up employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by bringing together up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.

## About the Role

Audit and assurance are entering a new era.

Advances in AI are transforming how firms prepare for engagements, evaluate evidence, and deliver assurance. Many of the workflows that have defined the profession for decades are being rebuilt from the ground up.

At Fieldguide, we’re building the AI-native platform that powers modern audit and advisory firms. Our platform combines workflow, collaboration, and AI agents to help firms operate more efficiently while maintaining the rigor and quality the profession requires.

As an Agent Architect, you’ll join a small, specialized team working at the intersection of audit expertise, product development, and AI. While you won’t be performing audits for clients in this role, you will work closely with audit professionals and Fieldguide’s engineering team to design and build the next generation of audit workflows.

This role is ideal for someone who understands how audits work today—but is excited to rethink how they should work in an AI-driven future.

## What You’ll Do

- Help design the AI-powered workflows that will define the future of audit and assurance.
- Partner closely with engineering, product, and design teams to translate real-world audit processes into scalable product capabilities.
- Work directly with audit firms using Fieldguide to understand their workflows, pain points, and opportunities for automation.
- Identify edge cases, controls, and quality requirements to ensure the product meets the standards required for professional services workflows.
- Collaborate with our ML team to develop AI agent capabilities that assist with tasks such as document analysis, testing procedures, and evidence evaluation.
- Help rethink long-standing audit processes and shape how AI can augment professional judgment.

## Who You Are

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting + CPA license or Master’s degree in Accounting.
- 8-10+ years of experience in audit at a leading public accounting firm at the Senior Manager level or above.
- Experience auditing financial statements end-to-end, including designing and executing audit workpapers across financial statement areas.
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and financial statement preparation.
- Experience performing financial statement audits end-to-end, including planning and risk assessment, evaluating internal controls (ICFR), executing substantive testing across key balance sheet and income statement areas, and reviewing financial statements and disclosures.
- Experience working across multiple clients and industries.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a high bar for accuracy.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to translate complex accounting concepts into clear product requirements.
- Strong prioritization skills and the ability to focus on the highest-impact work.

Bonus Points

- Curiosity about AI and how it will reshape professional services.
- Interest in working closely with engineers to build new systems from the ground up.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and building without a predefined playbook.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across teams.
- A deep interest in improving how audits are performed—not just digitizing existing workflows.

More about Fieldguide

Fieldguide is a values-based company. Our values are:

- Fearless - Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls.
- Fast - Launch fast with excellence, iterate to perfection.
- Lovable - Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences.
- Owners - Execute & run the business with ownership.
- Win-win - Create mutual value & earn trust for life.
- Inclusive - Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams.

Some of our benefits include

- Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
- Flexible PTO
- 401k
- Wellness benefits starting on your first day
- Technology & Work from Home reimbursement
- Flexible work schedules

## About Fieldguide

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fieldguide is an AI-native platform that automates audit and advisory engagements for professional services firms, replacing manual workflows with agentic AI and collaborative tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $125.3M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Jin Chang (CEO/Co-Founder) and Chris Szymansky (CTO/Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Vertical AI for Audit & Advisory (Regulatory Compliance, Risk Advisory, Financial Audit, SOC Readiness, IT Audit, Cybersecurity & Privacy, ESG)
- **Target Customers**: B2B — Audit and advisory practices (CPA firms, risk advisory firms, internal audit teams) ranging from top 100 firms to regional practices. Clients include KPMG, RSM US LLP, Baker Tilly, BDO, Grant Thornton, Forvis Mazars, CLA, CohnReznick, and many others.
- **Mission/Purpose**: "Increase trust in commerce and capital markets" by amplifying the assurance and advisory engagement experience through automation and AI.

## Products & Services
- **Fieldguide AI Platform**: The core end-to-end engagement management platform where practitioners and AI agents work together. Covers planning, testing, evidence review, reporting, and client collaboration.
- **Field Agents (Agentic AI)**: Purpose-built AI agents that automate end-to-end test procedures — validating evidence, summarizing results, and flagging exceptions. Includes Testing Agents, Substantive Testing Agents, Request Agents, and Agentic Chat.
- **AI Actions**: Handles recurring tasks across entire workpapers (drafting walkthroughs, suggesting test plans).
- **Client Hub**: Automated modern request management with a client-facing portal.
- **Reporting Automation**: One-click collaborative report generation.
- **Document Management**: Enterprise-grade workpaper management.
- **End-to-End Engagement Management**: Centralized platform for planning, execution, and delivery across every practice area and methodology.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (last round: Series C, $75M, announced February 2026)
- **Total Funding**: $125.3M (8 rounds)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $7.5M (156 employees)
- **Notable Investors**: Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (lead, Series C), Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Thomson Reuters, Y Combinator, Floodgate, Elad Gil, Justin Kan, Qasar Younis, Eric Ries. Corporate investment from KPMG (2025).
- **Growth Signals**: 64.5% YoY headcount growth (+78 people); 50% of the top 100 firms trust Fieldguide; 32% reduction in engagement hours for customers; 70% reduction in manual testing time; 95% reduction in manual testing time for certain workflows; error rate of less than 1% versus manual processes; 5-time winner of CPA Practice Advisor Technology Innovation Award.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertical AI Moat**: Purpose-built for regulated audit and advisory environments, not a generic AI tool. Field Agents are trained on industry standards (SOX, HIPAA, FFIEC, HITRUST, PCI DSS) and firm methodologies.
- **Founder-Market Fit**: Both co-founders have deep industry experience — Jin Chang spent 5 years at EY in audit & advisory; Chris Szymansky has a technical background and founded a crypto tax automation company.
- **Network Effects**: As more firms use the platform, the AI agents improve across methodologies and regulatory frameworks, creating a data moat.
- **Top-Tier Customer Base**: Already adopted by 50% of the top 100 firms, including Big Four (KPMG) and national leaders (RSM, Baker Tilly, BDO, Grant Thornton), providing credibility and a strong reference base.
- **Capital & Strategic Backing**: Backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer, 8VC, and a strategic investment from KPMG — signaling both financial strength and industry validation.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic AI First**: Doubling down on autonomous AI agents that execute testing, documentation, and evidence review, allowing practitioners to focus on judgment and client impact.
- **Platform Expansion**: Moving beyond audit into risk advisory, SOC, ESG, cybersecurity, and other assurance practices — becoming the single platform for all trust services.
- **Geographic Growth**: Expanding presence with offices/hubs in San Francisco (HQ), Denver, New York, Seoul, Los Angeles, Austin, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Toronto, London, Seattle, and Singapore.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring (+105.6% YoY job posting growth) across engineering, customer success, sales, and marketing to scale the platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: Work that directly increases trust in commerce and capital markets — a meaningful, high-impact problem.
- **Remote-Friendly Culture**: Described as a "remote-friendly, global company" with hubs across the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, South Korea, and Singapore. Not fully remote but flexible.
- **Strong Engineering Culture**: Cross-functional teams with autonomy and focus on core metrics. Engineers work on cutting-edge agentic AI problems in a high-regulation environment.
- **Learning Opportunity**: Daily exposure to industry experts (former auditors on staff) who share knowledge — no prior audit experience needed.
- **Perks & Benefits**: Competitive compensation, stock options, flexible PTO, wellness benefits, technology reimbursement, company offsites.
- **Culture Values**: "Loveable" (create mutual value, earn trust), "Fearless" (inspire, break down walls), "Fast" (launch fast, iterate to perfection), "Inclusive" (scale best ideas with inclusive teams), "Owners" (execute with ownership), "Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences."
- **Talent Density**: Team includes alumni from Meta, Amazon, Brex, Carta, EY, Thomson Reuters, FloQast, LaunchDarkly — high-caliber peers.

## Sources
1. [fieldguide.io](https://www.fieldguide.io/)
2. [fieldguide.io/about](https://www.fieldguide.io/about)
3. [fieldguide.io/careers](https://www.fieldguide.io/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/fieldguide-inc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fieldguide-inc)
5. [ycombinator.com/companies/fieldguide](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fieldguide)

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