--- title: 'Software Engineer - AI at Maxima' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-ai-maxima-san-mateo-g5gvkc14n1zd' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Software Engineer - AI at Maxima - **Company:** Maxima - **Location:** San Mateo, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2025-11-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/maxima/39df5dd3-d593-403c-a0fa-e23851507643 ## Job description Company Description At Maxima, we’re building an agentic AI platform to automate enterprise accounting. Our system handles high-volume financial data, complex accounting workflows, and robust executions that must be accurate and reliable. We’re tackling some of the hardest problems in enterprise automation, and we’ve assembled a world-class engineering team with staff-level talent from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta. Maxima is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins and Redpoint Ventures, and we’re trusted by category-defining customers like Scale AI and Rippling. ## Role Overview As an AI Engineer at Maxima, you’ll work at the intersection of AI systems and product, building agentic workflows that power real-world enterprise accounting automation. This role is not pure research or modeling—you’ll focus on turning modern AI capabilities into reliable, production-ready systems used by customers every day. You’ll design and iterate on prompts, evaluations, and model interfaces; build and orchestrate agent workflows; and integrate AI components deeply into our product and infrastructure. A core part of the role is ensuring AI-driven systems are reliable and scalable, especially in high-stakes financial workflows. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to ship end-to-end features, and you’ll help shape how AI is developed, tested, and deployed across the company. We value engineers who are pragmatic, product-minded, and excited to push AI systems from experimentation into dependable production. ## What We're Looking For - 2+ years building product at high-growth companies - Familiarity with latest AI developments, practices, and frameworks - Familiarity with web development, relational databases, and distributed systems - Experience with data pipelines, mission-critical systems (e.g. fintech), or complex workflow engines is a plus - Loves in-person culture, we are 5 days a week in office in downtown San Mateo Why Join Us: - Be a core part of a mission-driven startup looking to transform accounting processes. - Work in a fast-paced environment where your decisions directly impact product direction and company growth. - Opportunity to grow with the company and build a technical team from the ground up. - Competitive salary, equity, and benefits (401k, unlimited PTO) Join us in revolutionizing accounting month-end close and making accounting operations more efficient for businesses everywhere! ## About Maxima ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Maxima is the first agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting, automating the record-to-report close process with AI agents that are accountant-reviewed. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Yogi Goel (Co-founder & CEO), Akshaya Srivatsa (Co-founder & CPO), Jack Liao (Co-founder & CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Enterprise accounting automation / AI-powered financial close software. - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise finance and accounting teams at high-growth and large-scale companies. - **Mission**: Maximize every customer's long-term financial performance through real-time accounting. ## Products & Services - **Maxima Agentic Accounting Platform**: An AI-native platform that automates the month-end close end-to-end. AI agents pull data from ERPs, banks, payroll, billing, and other systems to prepare journal entries, reconciliations, variance explanations, and audit trails – all accountant-reviewed and SOX-compliant. Handles cash coding, payroll JEs, balance sheet reconciliations, prepaids, commissions, leases, fixed assets, and more. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $41.0M (Seed + Series A); processes over $300B in transaction volume for customers. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Redpoint, Audacious Ventures (led Series A); customers include Rippling, Scale AI, Zip, Glean, Zendesk, and Bilt Rewards. - **Growth Signals**: 53 employees as of mid-2025, with presence in the US, Canada, and South Korea. Headcount growing rapidly (LinkedIn followers at 5,193 with +2.3% monthly growth). Active hiring across engineering, sales, and go-to-market roles. ## Competitive Advantages - **Agent-prepared, accountant-reviewed** model: AI agents perform the work, accountants review – combining speed with trust and auditability. - **Finance graph**: Unifies all financial data sources into a single context and lineage model, enabling true end-to-end automation. - **Deterministic logic with transaction-level lineage**: Every output is review-ready with full audit trail, meeting SOX compliance. - **Built by a team of top fintech engineers (Google, Apple, Robinhood, Bolt, Meta) and former auditors from EY, PwC** – deep domain expertise. ## Strategic Focus - Expand agentic capabilities across the entire record-to-report cycle. - Continue building out integrations with major ERP and finance systems (150+ native integrations). - Scale go-to-market and customer success to serve more enterprise accounting teams. - Recruit top AI and engineering talent to advance the platform. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Builders who want to raise the bar” – values include customer first, act like an owner, rigor at speed, invent don’t inherit, and making each other formidable. Strong emphasis on ownership and impact. - **Work model**: Primarily onsite in San Mateo (CA) headquarters; also remote roles available across the US and Canada. Strong in-office culture with commuter benefits. - **Perks**: Equity + top-of-market salary, health/dental/vision, 401(k) plan, unlimited PTO, free lunches and snacks, shiny new Apple equipment, team building events. - **Engineering culture**: Small, high-impact teams working on cutting-edge LLM/agentic AI applied to a decades-old enterprise problem. Co-located in San Mateo and Toronto. ## Sources 1. [maxima.ai](https://www.maxima.ai/) 2. [maxima.ai/careers](https://www.maxima.ai/careers) 3. [maxima.ai/about](https://www.maxima.ai/about) 4. [linkedin.com/company/maximaai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maximaai) 5. 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