--- title: 'AI Engineer - Agents at Campfire' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ai-engineer-agents-campfire-san-francisco-6q44c5qmntc9' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-09' --- # AI Engineer - Agents at Campfire - **Company:** Campfire - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $180k–$300k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/campfire/d7f80e1c-e92a-49df-8ac8-4be6179e5387 ## Job description ## About Us Campfire is on a mission to redefine the accounting software landscape by taking on giants like Netsuite to build modern accounting software for startups and mid-size tech companies. We graduated from Y Combinator's Summer 2023 cohort, and we are backed by prominent investors like Foundation Capital and a rapidly growing customer base. 🌟 The Role Join Campfire as an AI Engineer to build production AI agents that help customers get real accounting work done. You’ll combine strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience developing and operating agentic applications, from automating financial workflows to helping customers understand and act on their financial data. This is a hands-on technical role. You’ll shape our agent architecture, ship customer-facing features, and establish the engineering practices that make them reliable. You’ll work closely with engineering, product, and design to turn ambiguous problems into software our customers can trust 💼 We Need Someone Who Has Expertise - Strong software engineering background, with substantial experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems. You write maintainable Python and bring sound judgment to APIs, data models, distributed systems, and testing. - Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered agents used by real customers, including tool calling, orchestration, retrieval, and integration with application data and workflows. - Experience owning agent quality in production through evaluations, tracing, monitoring, and systematic debugging of failures. - Practical judgment around agent permissions, data access, human approvals, and recovery from partial failures, especially when agents take actions on behalf of users. - Ability to balance accuracy, latency, cost, and complexity, and to choose when a problem calls for an agent, a deterministic workflow, or a combination of both. - A track record of staff-level impact: leading complex initiatives, making architectural decisions across teams, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards while staying close to the code: Thrives in Agility: - Our team is lean and moves quickly. You’re comfortable experimenting, iterating, and shipping fast. Values Autonomy: - You take ownership end-to-end — from prototyping models to deploying and monitoring them in production. 👥 Ideal Candidate - You’re an experienced engineer with software engineering experience who has owned consequential production systems and can explain the tradeoffs, failures, and lessons behind what you’ve shipped. - You’ve taken AI agents beyond demos and prototypes and improved them based on real usage. - You care about customer outcomes and bring curiosity about accounting and financial workflows. Prior fintech or accounting experience is a plus. - You collaborate closely with engineering, product, and design, communicate technical decisions clearly, and help other engineers grow. - You want the ownership and scope of a staff role while remaining an active builder. 📢 Let’s Connect Think you’re the perfect fit? We’re excited to meet you! Reach out, share your story, and let’s explore how you can bring intelligence to Campfire’s mission. ## About Campfire ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Campfire is an AI-native Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform that automates accounting workflows — including transaction categorization, bank reconciliation, revenue recognition, and reporting — for mid-market and enterprise finance teams. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also New York office) - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: John Glasgow (CEO/CFO) and Paul C Nichols (CTO) are key executives; founding team details are not publicly disclosed. ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Accounting & Finance Software / Enterprise SaaS - **Target customers**: B2B – mid-size to enterprise companies (50–5,000 employees), including SaaS, usage-based, consulting, and transaction-heavy businesses - **Mission / Purpose**: “Superpower your accounting team” – Campfire aims to multiply what finance teams can do by automating manual, repetitive tasks so they can focus on strategic business drivers rather than spreadsheets. ## Products & Services - **Core Accounting (General Ledger)**: Multi-entity consolidation with 180+ currencies, global compliance support, and real-time sync. - **Revenue Automation**: Revenue recognition for any billing model (SaaS, usage, etc.). - **Close Management**: Built-in close checklists, flux analysis, account reconciliations, and autonomous reconciliation. - **Reporting**: Real-time dashboards with drill-down to any transaction. - **AI Assistant (Ember)**: Conversational AI that answers questions, detects anomalies, auto-categorizes transactions, performs cash forecasting, and more. - **Integrations**: 100+ natively built integrations (e.g., Ramp, Rippling, Salesforce) plus 1,200+ granular permission controls. All offerings are cloud-based SaaS with API endpoints for custom workflows. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding = **$103.6M** (as of late 2025); Annual Revenue = **$3.9M** (LinkedIn estimate) - **Notable Investors**: Accel, Ribbit Capital (led Series B), Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, Capital49 (Airwallex) - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew **+800% year-over-year** to 81 employees - 25 active job postings (monthly postings down 7.4% but quarterly up 525%, yearly up 1,150%) - Customers include Replit, Decagon, PostHog, Advisor360 - LinkedIn followers grew +341.4% year-over-year ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native foundation**: Autonomous reconciliation, auto-categorization, anomaly detection, and conversational reporting built into the core product – not bolted on. - **Depth for scaling**: Multi-entity, multi-currency (180+ currencies), unlimited entities, and granular permission controls ideal for global high-growth companies. - **Integrated ecosystem**: 100+ native integrations and 1,200+ permissions, reducing manual data entry and spreadsheet reliance. - **Domain expertise**: In-house support from accountants who have closed books themselves. - **Enterprise readiness**: Policies, roles, approval workflows, and comprehensive compliance support. ## Strategic Focus - **Product expansion**: Continuing to add AI capabilities (Ember assistant, flux analysis, cash forecasting) and deepen core accounting features. - **Global scaling**: Supporting international subsidiaries and compliance (EMEA, Australia presence) while growing headcount across sales, customer success, and engineering. - **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring (25+ open roles) across sales, customer success, engineering, and implementation – particularly looking for people who want “real ownership” in a hyper-growth startup. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as “hyper-growth startup” where employees get “meaningful responsibility from day one.” The team includes alumni from Deloitte, PwC, NetSuite, Brex, Rippling, and other top finance/tech companies. - **Work model**: In-office (on-site) – offices in San Francisco and New York City. - **Notable perks**: Not detailed in search results, but the company emphasizes a driven, ownership-minded environment and the chance to “do the kind of work that moves your career forward.” - **Engineering culture**: 13% of staff in technical roles, with a focus on building AI-first solutions. The CTO (Paul C Nichols) leads a team that includes AI engineers. ## Sources 1. [Campfire AI](https://campfire.ai/) 2. [Campfire Careers](https://campfire.ai/careers) 3. [Campfire Jobs on Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/campfire) 4. [Built In – Campfire Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/campfire) 5. 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