AI Engineer, Workbench

Reposted 2 Months Ago
San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
171K-240K Annually
Mid level
Fintech
All-in-one finance for every business.
The Role
Build the product harness for an Audit Agent: design backend systems, data contracts, APIs, and feedback/evaluation loops; ship customer-facing features; run experiments; and collaborate with frontend, agent, and customers to improve workflows and trust.
Summary Generated by Built In

Why join us

Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.

Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.

AI at Brex

AI Engineering at Brex is redefining how businesses run their finances by building intelligent, autonomous systems directly into the Brex platform. Our teams develop AI agents that don’t just surface insights—they take action, optimizing spend, managing workflows, and making real-time decisions on behalf of our customers. By deeply integrating proprietary financial data with product and platform infrastructure, we’re turning complex financial operations into simple, automated experiences and setting a new standard for how modern finance works.

What you’ll do

As an AI Engineer on our Finance Agents team, you’ll build Brex’s Agent Workbench: our singular conversational surface where finance professionals work with Brex’s agents through documents, charts, spreadsheets, and other interactive surfaces. You’ll help customers understand financial activity, investigate findings, revise policies, and steer agents doing consequential work.

Your first substantial project will be evolving the existing workbench into an extensible platform that can support multiple agent experiences, including bookkeeping and Brex Assistant. You’ll own the extension model, integration protocols, and application architecture that enable other teams to bring their agents and experiences into a coherent workspace.

You’ll establish the agentic design system with the technical depth to connect interaction design to platform decisions. Working closely with frontend engineers, agent teams, Product, and Design, you’ll build across application layers as needed and iterate with customers. The scope includes experiences such as policy editing, reporting, backtesting, and interactive data exploration, with priorities shaped by user needs.

Where you’ll work

This role will be based in our San Francisco office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We require three coordinated days in the office per week — Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!

Responsibilities

  • Design and build a reusable agent workbench platform that supports multiple agent personas and enables other teams to integrate their agents and product experiences.
  • Design and implement extension models, integration protocols, and application architecture that connect agent capabilities with rich, consistent user interactions.
  • Build and ship customer-facing workflows that combine conversation with documents, charts, spreadsheets, and interactive artifacts, owning UI implementation and the supporting application behavior.
  • Partner with frontend engineers, agent teams, Product, and Design to turn ambiguous user needs into cohesive experiences, making thoughtful tradeoffs across usability, extensibility, and reliability.
  • Own features from design through production and iteration: talk directly with customers, investigate failures, and use feedback and observed outcomes to improve how users understand, configure, and steer agents.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software development experience delivering customer-facing applications
  • Experience building or contributing to a production grade agent, agent harness, workbench, or agentic product.
  • Experience in application architecture and integration design, with the ability to translate interaction needs into extensible interfaces, protocols, and clear boundaries between components.
  • Deep familiarity with agent clients such as Claude, ChatGPT, and OpenCode, grounded in sustained use.
  • Strong product judgment and ownership in ambiguous environments. You work effectively across engineering, Product, and Design, challenge decisions constructively, and take responsibility for production quality and customer outcomes.

Bonus points

  • Full-stack experience spanning rich frontend interactions, backend services, APIs, and data modeling.
  • Experience building IDEs, developer tools, real-time collaborative applications, or similarly sophisticated web products.
  • Experience designing extension systems or reusable application platforms adopted by other teams.
  • Professional experience shipping LLM or agentic products, including human-in-the-loop workflows, tracing, evaluation, or feedback mechanisms.
  • Experience with financial software or other consequential workflows where transparency, traceability, and user control matter.

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $216,000 - $240,000 USD.  However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.

Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.

Skills Required

  • Track record of shipping customer-facing features end-to-end across backend and frontend
  • Product mindset; comfort with ambiguity and talking to customers directly
  • Strong bias towards action; ability to ship initiatives without detailed tickets
  • Ability to work across team boundaries and push back on seams between systems
  • Strong backend foundation: system design, data modeling, API shape
  • Work in San Francisco office with three coordinated days per week (Mon/Wed/Thu)
  • Early-stage startup experience or owning a product surface end-to-end
  • Experience building products on top of LLMs or agentic systems (evaluation, tracing, feedback loops)
  • Background in fintech, compliance, audit, fraud, or review workflows
  • Experience operating with non-deterministic systems and compensating in product
  • Track record of being the cross-functional engineer pulled into stuck projects

Brex Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Brex and has not been reviewed or approved by Brex.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for many engineering and senior product roles, with strong total compensation relative to late‑stage tech peers. Flexibility to balance cash and equity has historically reinforced perceptions of market alignment.
  • Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, and vision coverage are paired with mental‑health resources like Spring Health and Calm, forming a comprehensive healthcare stack. This combination signals an above‑average mental‑health offering in tech.
  • Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as generous and is complemented by Carrot fertility support and Milk Stork for nursing parents. These elements indicate a family‑friendly package that exceeds common fintech baselines.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
800 Employees

What We Do

Brex is all-in-one finance for growing businesses. We help companies spend, save, and earn smarter—and take every dollar further—by doing more than a bank, bookkeeping, or reward program could ever do alone. After completing the Y Combinator accelerator program in 2017, Brex has grown to over 600 employees and raised over US $940 million in venture capital. Learn more at brex.com.

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