# Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Agent Builder

**Company:** [Brex](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/brex)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $152k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, Agent Frameworks, Mcp, Function Calling, RAG, SQL, NoSQL, APIs, Openclaw, Hermes
**Posted:** 2026-04-27

> Builds and deploys AI agents to automate internal workflows at Brex by embedding with teams, integrating systems, and measuring impact. Requires 4+ years experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, databases, and production AI systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Embed with partner teams to deeply understand workflows, including shadowing and learning different job functions.
- Scope, design, and deploy agents that take over real workflows across internal orgs.
- Integrate agents with internal systems, APIs, and data sources.
- Define evaluation frameworks, success metrics, and feedback loops to measure and improve agent performance.
- Build shared tooling and contribute to playbooks that accelerate deployments, while owning reliability, adoption, and business impact.

## Requirements
- 4+ years in engineering, technical product/program management, applied AI, or a similar technical role, with a track record of shipping AI/automation systems to production.
- Hands-on experience building with **LLMs**, **agent frameworks**, and tool-use patterns (e.g., **MCP**, function calling, **RAG**) across the full stack (data, APIs, orchestration, product).
- Experience designing and optimizing **SQL** and/or **NoSQL** databases, including data modeling, query performance tuning, and schema design.
- Strong ability to decompose human workflows into scalable, agentic systems, grounded in a deep curiosity for how people work.
- High ownership and cross-functional influence, with the ability to quickly build trust across teams and seniority levels.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience automating back-office functions rather than just customer-facing AI features.
- Experience with **OpenClaw**, **Hermes**, or other general-purpose agent harnesses.

## Compensation
Expected salary range: **$152,000 - $240,000** base pay, depending on location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Equity and other compensation may be provided.

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