Software Engineer, Agents (Foundation Agents)

Fieldguide

$135K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience building AI products
  • Working knowledge of evaluations and error analysis
  • Backend engineering experience
  • Platform engineering skills (nice-to-have)
  • Frontend experience (nice-to-have)
  • Distributed systems experience (nice-to-have)

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain agent knowledge and evaluation infrastructure
  • Develop next generation AI agents for complex customer use cases
  • Perform error analysis to drive quality improvements
  • Construct backend systems for agent execution and monitoring
  • Collaborate with senior engineers on reliability and quality roadmap

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with equity
  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Flexible time off and work schedules
  • Technology reimbursements
  • 401(k) plan
  • Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the U.S.
  • Wellness benefits starting on your first day
Full Job Description
About the Role

The Foundation Agents team stewards the long-horizon agents powering the Fieldguide AI platform. We work at the frontier of AI product development: agent knowledge, evaluations, and improving quality and reliability at scale. If you're excited by long-horizon agents that do real-world work, this is the team for you.

What You'll Own
  • Build and maintain agent knowledge and evaluation infrastructure for Fieldguide's long-horizon agents
  • Build our next generation of agents at Fieldguide, solving increasingly complex customer use cases
  • Perform error analysis on agent behavior and help turn findings into concrete quality improvements
  • Build backend systems that support agent execution, evaluation, and monitoring
  • Partner with senior engineers on the team to execute the platform's reliability and quality roadmap
Who You Are
  • You've built AI products, not just called an LLM API
  • You're curious about evals and error analysis. You want to understand why an agent failed, not just that it did
  • You're comfortable in the backend, with a bias toward reliable systems
  • You're motivated by long-horizon agents that do real work in production
Experience

Must-have:
  • Hands-on experience building AI products
  • Working knowledge of evals and error analysis
  • Backend engineering experience

Nice-to-have:
  • Platform engineering skills
  • Frontend experience
  • Distributed systems experience
What Should Excite You
  • Long-horizon agents: working on agents that do real, sustained work and not one-shot demos
  • Evaluation as a craft: Evals and error analysis are core to how this team improves quality
  • Platform-level impact: Your work shapes the reliability and quality of every agent built on top of it
  • Frontier problems: You're working on open problems in agent reliability that don't yet have established playbooks
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation with equity
  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Flexible time off and work schedules
  • Technology reimbursements
  • 401(k) plan
  • Twice-yearly in-person offsites across the U.S.
  • Wellness benefits starting on your first day

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