[Remote] Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Agent Builder

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Brex is an intelligent finance platform that empowers companies to manage their spending effectively. The role involves building AI agents to automate internal functions, requiring collaboration with various teams to design, develop, and deploy these solutions.


Responsibilities

  • Embed with partner teams to deeply understand workflows, including shadowing and learning different job functions
  • Scope, design, and deploy agents that take over real workflows across internal orgs
  • Integrate agents with internal systems, APIs, and data sources
  • Define evaluation frameworks, success metrics, and feedback loops to measure and improve agent performance
  • Build shared tooling and contribute to playbooks that accelerate deployments, while owning reliability, adoption, and business impact

Skills

  • 4+ years in engineering, technical product/program management, applied AI, or a similar technical role, with a track record of shipping AI/automation systems to production
  • Hands-on experience building with LLMs, agent frameworks, and tool-use patterns (e.g., MCP, function calling, RAG) across the full stack (data, APIs, orchestration, product)
  • Experience designing and optimizing SQL and/or NoSQL databases, including data modeling, query performance tuning, and schema design
  • Strong ability to decompose human workflows into scalable, agentic systems, grounded in a deep curiosity for how people work
  • High ownership and cross-functional influence, with the ability to quickly build trust across teams and seniority levels
  • Experience automating back-office functions rather than just customer-facing AI features
  • Experience with OpenClaw, Hermes, or other general-purpose agent harnesses

Benefits

  • 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 currently require a minimum of 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!

Company Overview

  • Brex is a financial service and technology company that provides business credit cards and cash management accounts. It is a sub-organization of Capital One. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Brex has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2026, 31 in 2025, 49 in 2024, 53 in 2023, 65 in 2022, 70 in 2021, 37 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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