Staff Engineer, Agentic AI

Reposted 2 Months Ago
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
182K-310K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Payments • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Generative AI
Do the most ambitious work of your career. Airwallex is building the future of global banking.
The Role
Design and deploy agentic AI systems that automate multi-step financial workflows. Architect agents using frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex, apply prompting, RAG, and fine-tuning, optimize reasoning and tool use, build feedback-driven systems, and integrate AI reasoning securely into production backend and frontend services.
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About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

 
How you'll make impact

You’ll design and deploy intelligent systems that automate complex, multi-step financial workflows. You’ll turn agentic frameworks, orchestration layers, and pragmatic model selection into reliable production systems at scale.

  • Architect intelligent systems that automate complex, multi-step financial workflows

  • Apply prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning, or training models from scratch as appropriate to the problem

  • Design and optimize agent architectures for reasoning, tool use, and workflow automation

  • Build systems that improve with usage and create compounding AI flywheels

  • Partner with backend and frontend engineers to integrate AI reasoning into secure, production systems

You’ll work from our San Francisco office three days a week.

What we're looking forEssentials
  • 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

You'll thrive here if
  • You're comfortable owning the roadmap yourself.

  • You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway.

  • You hold yourself to a high standard even when no one is watching. Quality and accountability aren't external expectations, they're internal ones.

  • You're comfortable with ambiguity. Give you a problem, not a prescription, and you'll run with it.

  • You simplify complexity rather than hiding behind it.

Learn more about your team

T:0's mission is to make finance run itself. We're building an AI-native accounting platform that closes the books, reconciles, and reports continuously, so founders can stop managing their finances and start using them to run the business. The hard part isn't adding AI to accounting. It's making AI you can trust with the books. We use AI to understand how a business works, then run the actual accounting on strict, checkable rules, and no black box deciding the numbers. That's why customers pick us over both the legacy tools they've outgrown and the AI wrappers they don't trust. And bookkeeping is just the start: we're building toward a full financial operating system for how companies account, plan, and operate. The team is small, elite, and builder-focused, led by operators with a track record of shipping AI products at scale. We sit inside Airwallex, which means startup speed with a scaled company's infrastructure, distribution, and capital behind us. You'll work directly from real customer pain, own outcomes end to end, and ship fast.

Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters

To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Skills Required

  • 5+ years in applied AI/ML engineering with production deployments
  • Strong Python skills
  • Experience with ML frameworks: PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow
  • Track record of building and deploying AI agents, orchestration frameworks, or multi-step reasoning systems
  • Experience architecting and deploying with agent frameworks: LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel
  • Understanding of monitoring, evaluation, and iteration in production AI systems
  • Ability to balance innovation with reliability, scalability, and compliance

What the Team is Saying

Airwallex Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards, with RSUs seen as offering long-term upside in a late-stage fintech. Equity opportunities are described as a core strength alongside competitive base pay.
  • Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options, complemented by mental health resources and an employee assistance program. This breadth of coverage is consistently highlighted as part of a strong overall package.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is described as generous, including vacation, company holidays, and extras such as birthday leave and volunteer days. These leave programs add tangible value beyond salary and equity.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
2,700 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000+ businesses worldwide – including Brex, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN, McLaren and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Why Work With Us

Airwallex was founded by people told their idea was unreasonable, and we've hired that way ever since. We move fast, think globally, and give you ownership from day one. If you want to pioneer global finance at scale alongside the ambitious, let's talk.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

At a global level, we have a strong in-office culture. We’ve invested in world-class office space in hub cities around the world. We see the benefits of in-person conversation, mentoring, and knowledge-transfer as vital to our long-term success.

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