Software Engineer - AI

As an AI Engineer at Maxima, you’ll work at the intersection of AI systems and product, building agentic workflows that power real-world enterprise accounting automation. This role is not pure research or modeling-you’ll focus on turning modern AI capabilities into reliable, production-ready systems used by customers every day.

You’ll design and iterate on prompts, evaluations, and model interfaces; build and orchestrate agent workflows; and integrate AI components deeply into our product and infrastructure. A core part of the role is ensuring AI-driven systems are reliable and scalable, especially in high-stakes financial workflows.

You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to ship end-to-end features, and you’ll help shape how AI is developed, tested, and deployed across the company. We value engineers who are pragmatic, product-minded, and excited to push AI systems from experimentation into dependable production.

• 2+ years building product at high-growth companies
• Familiarity with latest AI developments, practices, and frameworks
• Familiarity with web development, relational databases, and distributed systems
• Experience with data pipelines, mission-critical systems (e.g. fintech), or complex workflow engines is a plus
• Loves in-person culture, we are 5 days a week in office in downtown San Mateo

• Be a core part of a mission-driven startup looking to transform accounting processes.
• Work in a fast-paced environment where your decisions directly impact product direction and company growth.
• Opportunity to grow with the company and build a technical team from the ground up.
• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits (401k, unlimited PTO)

Join us in revolutionizing accounting month-end close and making accounting operations more efficient for businesses everywhere!

At Maxima, we’re building an agentic AI platform to automate enterprise accounting.

Our system handles high-volume financial data, complex accounting workflows, and robust executions that must be accurate and reliable.

We’re tackling some of the hardest problems in enterprise automation, and we’ve assembled a world-class engineering team with staff-level talent from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta. Maxima is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins and Redpoint Ventures, and we’re trusted by category-defining customers like Scale AI and Rippling.