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From the employer's careers site First seen 31 Oct 2026 · Still live on 3 Nov 2026

Staff Engineer, Agentic AI

Airwallex San Francisco, CA Hybrid staff full-time

Salary

$182K – $310K per year

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Description

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $182K – $310K, with equity offered.

How you'll make impact

You'll design and deploy intelligent systems that automate complex, multi-step financial workflows. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Architecting intelligent systems that automate complex, multi-step financial workflows
  • Applying prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning, or training models from scratch as needed
  • Designing and optimizing agent architectures for reasoning, tool use, and workflow automation
  • Building systems that improve with usage and create compounding AI flywheels
  • Partnering with backend and frontend engineers to integrate AI reasoning into secure, production systems

What we're looking for

Essentials

  • 5+ years of experience in applied AI/ML engineering, including production deployments
  • Strong Python skills and experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
  • A track record of building and deploying AI agents, orchestration frameworks, or multi-step reasoning systems
  • Experience designing monitoring, evaluation, and iteration practices for production AI systems
  • Ability to balance innovation with reliability, scalability, and compliance

Preferred

  • Experience architecting and deploying intelligent systems that automate complex, multi-step financial workflows
  • Experience using agentic frameworks, orchestration layers, and pragmatic model selection to build production systems
  • Experience designing AI systems for reasoning, tool use, and workflow automation
  • Experience building systems that improve with usage and create compounding AI flywheels
  • Experience partnering with backend and frontend engineers to integrate AI reasoning into secure, production systems

Benefits

Benefits vary by country and employment type. US-based employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits. They also receive 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • agentic frameworks
  • orchestration layers
  • pragmatic model selection
  • reasoning
  • tool use
  • workflow automation

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airwallex/9ccb29da-56e0-48d7-8476-4c2b0b716598

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