Software Engineer - AI

About the role

ABOUT MAXIMA

Nobody went into accounting to spend the first week of every month matching transactions by hand. Maxima was built so they don't have to. Our agents do the accounting work itself: journal entries, transaction matching, reconciliations, and flux analysis, continuously and with a full audit trail. Accountants review and approve. Nothing posts without a person signing off. We remove the grind, not the human.

Maxima is the agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting. Our three co-founders scaled finance at Rubrik from $5M ARR to a $15B NYSE IPO, built the reconciliation and billing systems behind Netflix's $32B in annual revenue, and built AI infrastructure serving two billion monthly users at Meta. We've raised $41M from Redpoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and Audacious Ventures, joined by former BlackLine executives and the CFOs of Rubrik and Vanta. To date we've processed more than $400B across 350M transactions at 100.00% accuracy, for customers including Scale AI, Rippling, Glean, Zendesk, Handshake, Zip, and Decagon.

We're early and moving fast. The playbook here gets written, not inherited, and the person closest to the work makes the call. We're looking for people who build from first principles and hold themselves accountable for what actually lands — people who'd rather build the category than join it. Everything you need to know is below.

THE ROLE

We are working on some of the hardest problems in enterprise automation, with an engineering team that includes staff-level talent from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta. The system handles high-volume financial data and complex accounting workflows, and every execution has to be accurate and reliable, because the output is a company's books.

As an AI Engineer at Maxima, you will work where AI systems and product meet, building the agentic workflows behind enterprise accounting automation. This is not pure research or modeling. The job is turning modern AI capabilities into reliable, production-ready systems that customers use every day, in financial workflows where reliability is not optional.

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

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Design and iterate on prompts, evaluations, and model interfaces

- Build and orchestrate agent workflows

- Integrate AI components deeply into the product and infrastructure

- Make AI-driven systems reliable and scalable in high-stakes financial workflows

- Ship end-to-end features with product, design, and engineering

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 2 or more years building product at high-growth companies

- Familiarity with the latest AI developments, practices, and frameworks