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title: 'Director of Engineering - AI Agents at FurtherAI'
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# Director of Engineering - AI Agents at FurtherAI

- **Company:** FurtherAI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $300k–$450k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/furtherai/1dcd8ba4-06a4-4b66-87a4-19bfc31f9249

## Job description

## ABOUT US

At FurtherAI, we're building the AI agents that run insurance - a trillion-dollar industry still powered by manual work. By combining frontier agentic AI with deep domain expertise, we're reshaping how the industry's most critical work gets done.

We've raised more than $30M from top investors (Andreessen Horowitz, YC, Nexus, South Park Commons, Converge), grown more than XY00% in the last 12 months, and work with some of the largest names in insurance - top 10 carriers/brokers, F100 & public companies

We are a deeply technical company. Both founders are engineers and engineers have an outsized say on product direction.

Now, we're looking for an exceptional engineering leader to own our AI organization - the agents, infrastructure, and products at the core of everything we build.

## WHY JOIN US

- Outsized ambition: We're out to build the definitive AI company for insurance - a trillion-dollar industry - and we're moving faster than anyone in the space.
- Own the AI org: Lead our AI team and grow it into the engine of the company - hiring the leaders under you as we scale post-Series A.
- Elite team: Founders and engineers from the best companies and schools in the world - ex-Apple AI Research, Brex, Coinbase, and Uber; 4 YC founders and 6 ex-founders; grads of Stanford, Berkeley, IITs, and Cornell.
- Massive market impact: Insurance is the backbone of global commerce. Our work reshapes how the industry operates.
- Founder's mindset: Own a huge piece of the company and build a team from the ground up - ideal if you want to start your own thing one day.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own and grow the AI org. Lead our AI team today and scale it into three teams - AI infrastructure (routing & reliability), Agent intelligence (evals, shared tools, multimodal pipelines), and Agentic products (the customer-facing AI assistant, long running agentic workflows).
- Set technical direction for how we build agents that hold up in real production, on real customer money.
- Recruit, mentor, and retain a world-class team of AI engineers - and hire the team beneath you as the org grows.
- Stay deeply technical. You'll still be in the code and the architecture. You set the bar by example, not from the sidelines.
- Push the frontier of what agents can do for insurance as the field moves.

## REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

- Model router to operate on the Pareto frontier of speed and accuracy
- Infrastructure for long-running agents
- A general-purpose AI assistant that reads documents, pulls from connected systems, and takes actions end to end

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- Proven experience leading AI/ML engineering teams building production LLM/agent systems — you've managed engineers and shipped, not just advised.
- Deep, hands-on understanding of agentic architectures — tool use, planning, multi-agent orchestration, evals, reliability.
- Strong technical bar — still fluent in the code; can dive deep and evaluate experiment design rigorously.
- Track record building and scaling teams — recruiting strong people and growing leaders under you.
- Clear communicator, in person and in writing.
- Bonus: B2B SaaS and working at a early stage growth startup.
- Above all: drive, grit, and ownership. If you excel here, other requirements are secondary.

At FurtherAI, we set a high bar. We're not looking for someone who just wants a job — we're looking for someone who wants to build something transformative and own a big piece of it. If you thrive where the pace is fast, expectations are high, and the rewards are outsized, you'll love it here.

## BENEFITS

- Fully covered, best-in-class health, dental, and vision
- Competitive compensation, meaningful stock options, company 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Outstanding in-office culture in the heart of San Francisco
- Lunch and dinner onsite
- Team events - happy hours and off-sites
- Pre-tax commuter benefits

## About FurtherAI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: FurtherAI builds a domain-specific AI workforce that automates complex insurance workflows like submission intake, policy comparisons, and underwriting audits.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Aman Gour (CEO) and Sashank Gondala (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Insurance Technology (InsurTech) / Artificial Intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B — Commercial insurers, reinsurers, Managing General Agents (MGAs), and brokers
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "We build AI that works with people — it reads, reasons, and gets things done. We exist to free insurance teams from busywork so they can focus on judgment, relationships, and decisions that shape the future." [furtherai.com](https://www.furtherai.com/company)

## Products & Services
- **AI Assistant for Insurance Workflows**: A domain-specific AI that automates complex document processing and integrates disjointed systems. It handles submission intake, policy comparisons, underwriting audits, and claims processing. The AI extracts data from PDFs and SOVs, compares documents, automates workflows, and can make phone calls or send/receive messages. [furtherai.com](https://www.furtherai.com/)
- **Submissions Processing**: Automates the intake of submissions, extracting key details, running eligibility checks, and flagging inconsistencies to achieve 30x faster quote readiness. [furtherai.com](https://www.furtherai.com/)
- **Underwriting Audit**: Automates data extraction and policy reviews to cut audit time by 45% and boost compliance accuracy. [furtherai.com](https://www.furtherai.com/)
- **Policy Comparison**: AI-powered comparisons that instantly spot discrepancies and reduce manual effort, delivering up to 400% ROI within a few months. [furtherai.com](https://www.furtherai.com/)
- **Claims Processing**: Automates claims validation and compliance checks to reduce friction and accelerate operations. [furtherai.com](https://www.furtherai.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $30.55M (Series A of $25M raised ~9 months ago, plus a prior $5M round) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/further-ai)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2024 batch), Andreessen Horowitz (led the $25M Series A), Nexus Venture Partners, South Park Commons, Converge. Primary YC Partner: Tom Blomfield. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/furtherai)
- **Growth Signals**: Supports customers writing over $15B in premiums across all 50 states. One customer (a specialty insurer) saw three consecutive years of >20% premium growth. A top-10 global carrier with over $20B GWP partnered with them. Team size of 36 employees. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/furtherai) [furtherai.com](https://www.furtherai.com/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain-Specific AI**: Purpose-built for commercial insurance, not a general-purpose LLM. This allows it to handle complex, industry-specific documents (ACORD forms, loss runs, SOVs) with high accuracy (95% data accuracy reported). [furtherai.com](https://www.furtherai.com/)
- **Proven ROI**: Customers report 30x faster quote readiness, 646% ROI, and 45% reduction in audit time. [furtherai.com](https://www.furtherai.com/)
- **Enterprise-Grade Security**: Client prompts and data are never used for training; completely isolated firm-specific data storage; regularly audited and tested by third-party security specialists. [furtherai.com](https://www.furtherai.com/)
- **Deep Integrations**: Triggers flows based on email or messages, and can make phone calls, creating a seamless end-to-end automation layer.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the AI workforce across more insurance workflows (submissions, audits, claims, policy comparisons) and expanding the customer base among top-tier insurers, MGAs, and brokers. The company is focused on replacing manual, repetitive tasks with AI to help insurance professionals focus on higher-judgment work.
- **Direction for growth**: Deepening its foothold in the commercial insurance market, which faces increasing submission volumes, tighter margins, and a shrinking underwriting workforce. FurtherAI aims to be the standard AI layer for the entire insurance industry.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Mission-driven focus on freeing humans from busywork. The company emphasizes "human expertise and machine speed working together with trust and precision." [furtherai.com](https://www.furtherai.com/company)
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: The company is based in San Francisco, CA, but offers remote roles (e.g., Sales Development Representative is listed as remote). Engineering roles may be hybrid or in-office depending on location (e.g., a Backend/Fullstack role is listed for India). [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/furtherai)
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Backed by top-tier VCs (Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator) with a strong founding team (ex-Apple AI scientist, ex-Microsoft PM, ex-YC founder). The engineering culture is likely strong given the technical pedigree of the founders (former language modeling scientist at Apple, former Microsoft PM). The company is at an early growth stage (Series A, 36 employees), offering significant ownership and impact.

## Sources
1. [furtherai.com](https://www.furtherai.com/)
2. [furtherai.com/company](https://www.furtherai.com/company)
3. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/furtherai)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/further-ai)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/furtherai)

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