FurtherAI

Staff AI Engineer - Agent Team at FurtherAI (San Francisco, CA)

FurtherAI· San Francisco, CA· $300k–$400k·

Role details

Salary
$300k–$400k
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time
Equity
Yes

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), 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 AI Engineer to join our agent team and shape both our product and how we build agents.

WHY JOIN US

  • Outsized ambition: We're out to build the definitive AI company for insurance - and we're moving faster than anyone in the space.
  • 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 big pieces of the product from day one - ideal if you want to start your own company one day.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

  • Set up end-to-end evals to measure and improve agent performance.
  • Experiment with new agentic techniques - multi-agent systems, reasoning-from-feedback, and more.
  • Build lightweight tools, servers, and orchestration layers (e.g. MCP servers) that let agents run reliably in production.
  • Stay on top of emerging research on LLMs/agents and bring ideas into production experiments.

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

  • Eval harnesses that measure and lift agent accuracy on real insurance work
  • Orchestration and tools (e.g. MCP servers) that keep agents reliable in production
  • Multi-agent systems and reasoning-from-feedback loops
  • Long-running agents that read documents, pull from connected systems, and take actions end to end

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

  • Amazing ability to speak with LLMs - Occam's razor in prompting
  • Strong experience with Python
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years building in AI/ML.
  • Clear communicator - both in person and in writing.
  • Bonus: background in B2B SaaS and 0 - 1 experience
  • Above all: drive, grit, and ownership. If you excel here, other requirements are secondary

Note that this is not a model-training role - you’ll be building orchestration and reasoning systems on top of existing LLMs (think Claude-Code over Claude-Model).

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. If you thrive in environments where the pace is fast, expectations are high, and the rewards are outsized, you’ll love it here.

YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO THE FOLLOWING BENEFITS:

  • Fully covered, best-in-class health, dental, and vision benefits
  • 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, such as happy hours and off-sites
  • Pre-tax Commuter benefits

Why work at FurtherAI

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.

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