Software Engineer - AI

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

Familiarity with web development, relational databases, and distributed systems

Nice to have

Experience with data pipelines, mission-critical systems such as fintech, or complex workflow engines

Where and how you'll work

This role is based in our San Mateo office. We value in-person collaboration and are in office four to five days a week for our on-site roles.

Why join Maxima

The work. Agentic accounting is a category being defined right now, and Maxima is one of the companies defining it. The product does the accounting work itself, so what you build, sell, or deploy shows up in a customer's books

The people. Founders who ran the finance org at Rubrik and built the close systems at Twitter and Netflix. Engineers from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta. Controllers and accountants on the team who have closed books themselves. Small teams in San Mateo and Toronto that work in the same room, say what they think, and hold a high bar

The benefits. Competitive salary, 401(k) for US employees, unlimited PTO, lunch in the office, and commuter benefits

The process. A person reads every application, and we tell you where you stand at every stage

A note on AI

We build AI and we expect you to use it. Use it to research us and to prepare. In live conversations we want your own thinking in your own words, and if you use AI on a take-home exercise, tell us where it helped.

Equal opportunity

Maxima is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status. If you need an accommodation at any point in the process, tell us and we will arrange it.