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# Tech Lead, Agentic Engineering at Sema4.ai

- **Company:** Sema4.ai
- **Location:** Atlanta GA OR Madison, WI
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-01-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sema4.ai/54102c2a-4282-4657-a2d0-bab882410898

## Job description

## THE OPPORTUNITY

At Sema4.ai, we're building an Enterprise AI Agent platform that reinvents how knowledge work happens—how people and AI agents collaborate to get work done better and faster. You'll be the hands-on leader responsible for building the core of our product: the Agent framework.

We're looking for a Technical Lead who can architect cutting-edge AI systems while remaining hands-on with implementation. You'll guide the technical direction of our agent framework while mentoring senior engineers and driving engineering excellence across the team.

## WHO YOU ARE

- GenAI Expert: You understand how to use LLMs (and other cutting-edge models) to do useful work. You know the common challenges around using LLMs in enterprise settings, the most useful context management strategies, prompting strategies, and the nitty-gritty API-level details such as tool use, prompt caching, multi-modality, structured outputs, model-provider-specific differences, etc. You know the difference between top-p and temperature and you’ve maybe seen emerging works (like min-p). You use this significant base of understanding to drive useful outcomes in unique ways that non-experts in GenAI simply can’t.
- Technical Visionary: You can see around corners in the AI space. You understand not just current capabilities but where the field is heading. You make architectural decisions that will scale as models improve. You’ve grown with the field, tracking key changes, and implementing them when they make sense (avoiding the hype and creating clarity through your vision). You’re the kind of person who may have skipped on GraphRAG after a closer look, anticipated the emergence of truly long context models, and paid close attention to Anthropic’s excellent blog on SOTA retrieval techniques.
- Hands-On Builder: You write production code daily. You lead by example, contributing to the most challenging technical problems while establishing patterns for others to follow. You act as a force multiplier to the team around you.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Lead Technical Implementation: Spend at least 50% of your time hands-on with Python code, building core platform capabilities, optimizing LLM performance, and solving complex technical challenges.
- Set Technical Direction: Define technical standards, review critical code, and ensure architectural decisions align with our product vision. Guide the team on best practices for building AI-native applications.
- Drive AI Architecture: Design and implement our agent framework, orchestration systems, and LLM integration patterns. Make critical decisions about model selection, prompt strategies, and system architecture.
- Mentor & Elevate: While not necessarily managing people directly, you'll mentor senior engineers, conduct technical reviews, and help the team level up their AI and systems expertise.

## WHAT YOU BRING

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering including 3+ years applying AI/ML in practice, and 3+ years in a technical leadership position.
- Technical Leadership: Proven ability to drive technical decisions, influence architecture, and guide teams without formal authority. You lead through expertise and example.
- Communication Skills: Ability to explain complex AI concepts to various audiences and document architectural decisions clearly.

## About Sema4.ai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sema4.ai provides an enterprise AI agent platform that enables organizations to build, run, and manage AI agents to automate complex back-office workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Rob Bearden (CEO), Ram Venkatesh (CTO), Paul Codding (SVP of Product and Customer Experience)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Enterprise AI Agent Platform, Back-Office Automation, Software Development
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises with complex, document- and data-heavy back-office operations (Finance, Accounting, Operations)
- **Mission or purpose**: To empower enterprises to automate their most complex challenges with cutting-edge agentic AI, transforming business operations through autonomous, intelligent agents.

## Products & Services
- **Sema4.ai Enterprise AI Agent Platform**: A comprehensive platform (SaaS/Cloud) for building, running, and managing AI agents. It includes three layers:
    - **Agent Layer**: Automates key back-office workflows like quote-to-cash and procure-to-pay, integrating with enterprise systems.
    - **Context Layer**: Provides shared business understanding by creating a consistent view of data across sources, enabling natural language interaction.
    - **Admin Layer**: A single, focused experience for business users to find, use, and work with agents.
- **Document Intelligence**: Agents with "X-ray vision" to see and understand any kind of document.
- **Runbooks**: Enables non-technical users to create and manage AI agents using natural language.
- **AI Actions**: Pre-built integrations to connect agents with applications and data sources in minutes.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$55.5M** (Series A)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 6 investors (names not publicly listed on LinkedIn); partners include major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake) and LLM providers (OpenAI, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Bedrock, Snowflake Cortex).
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Robocorp in January 2024; raised a $30.5M Series A in January 2024 and a subsequent $25M Series A in July 2025; LinkedIn followers grew 39.4% year-over-year; serves leading enterprises.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-Source Foundation**: Built on an open-source framework that empowers developers and engineers, fostering community innovation and transparency.
- **Enterprise-Grade Security & Control**: Agents run in the customer's own cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake) with their own LLMs, providing complete control over security, compliance, and data.
- **Natural Language Runbooks**: Enables non-technical business users to create and manage AI agents without coding, lowering the barrier to automation.
- **Deterministic & Auditable Outcomes**: Designed for back-office processes requiring auditable, deterministic results, unlike many "black box" AI solutions.
- **Proven Leadership Team**: Founded by industry veterans from Cloudera, Docker, Hortonworks, SpringSource, and JBoss, with deep expertise in data management, distributed systems, and open source.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise Adoption**: Scaling the platform to serve large enterprises, with a focus on finance and accounting automation (invoice reconciliation, AP help desk, receivables matching).
- **Open-Source Community**: Building an open-source framework to drive innovation and developer adoption.
- **Platform Expansion**: Continuously adding new agent capabilities, integrations, and use cases to expand the platform's reach.
- **Global Growth**: Operating in 8 countries (including Finland, Latvia, India, Poland, and Monaco) with a remote-first culture.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: The company has been remote-first since day one, offering flexible working hours and the ability to work from anywhere. Some roles may be hybrid or require specific locations.
- **Ownership & Equity**: All employees receive equity, reflecting a belief that hard work should be rewarded.
- **Health & Wellness**: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; annual wellbeing benefits reimbursement; work-from-home equipment allowance.
- **Retirement**: 401(k) pension plan with matching contributions.
- **Time Off**: Flexible time-off policy, encouraging employees to plan based on personal needs and workload.
- **Culture**: Values include "Start with the customer," "Action over deliberation," and "Be kind to one another." The company emphasizes a fast-paced, results-oriented environment with a bias for action.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: A modern, flexible, and caring workplace where diversity and inclusion are fundamental.
- **Fun & Connection**: Annual hackathons with fantastic prizes, company-wide off-sites, and meetups to connect with colleagues worldwide.
- **Interview Process**: Typically 3-4 rounds, with some roles requiring a take-home challenge (presentation or coding challenge). Most interviews are virtual.
- **Early Career Programs**: Offers internships and early career roles (e.g., Forward Deployed Engineer, Product Manager – Agents, AI/ML Researcher).

## Sources
1. [sema4.ai](https://sema4.ai/)
2. [sema4.ai/about-us](https://sema4.ai/about-us/)
3. [sema4.ai/careers](https://sema4.ai/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sema4-ai)
5. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/sema4-ai)

## Other roles at Sema4.ai

- [Founding Product Manager - Finance](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-manager-finance-sema4-ai-atlanta-qjxpwpcm9a40) — Atlanta, GA
- [Staff Engineer, Agentic Backend](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-engineer-agentic-backend-sema4-ai-atlanta-jzh9brje1gb4) — Atlanta, GA
- [Staff Engineer, AI](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-engineer-ai-sema4-ai-atlanta-ga-or-madison-ssa0ytjs2ps8) — Atlanta GA OR Madison, WI
- [Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Agent Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-ai-agent-engineer-sema4-ai-atlanta-bevne1h6mbxt) — Atlanta, GA