Our client, building the future of audit, is looking for a Software Engineer or Forward Deployed Engineer in New York.Backed by a top tier venture fund, they acquire and modernise CPA firms using agentic AI, streamlining financial audits from the ground up with real customers and real revenue. They have agreed their first firm acquisition and are growing the engineering team to build and deploy agents at scale. This role works directly with early customers and founders on production grade AI agents, owning zero to one systems across LLM pipelines, document parsing, browser automation and backend infrastructure. Base salary is $150K to $300K depending on experience plus meaningful early stage equity, in person in NYC.Role & Responsibilities:- Build and deploy AI agents that parse documents, extract entities, cross check financials and complete workflows end to end- Work across the stack, from Python backends and vector stores to browser based agents and internal tools- Ship fast, iterating on v1s quickly and returning to compound the wins- Own real outcomes with design partners, with your work hitting production- Evaluate and integrate emerging AI frameworks, tools and best practices- Help build the engineering cultureSkills & Experience:- Strong builder instincts with end to end ownership- Track record shipping AI, infrastructure or backend features fast, Python preferred- Experience or interest in LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, browser automation or document parsing- Bias for action, comfortable debugging in production and learning from real usage- Not above any task, whether writing the scraper, deploying the server or calling the customer- Comfortable with messy real world data and applied AI with direct business impact