FurtherAI - Director of Engineering - AI Agents
About The Position
FurtherAI is a domain-specific AI for the insurance industry. Its AI Workspace automates workflows like submission intake, policy comparisons and underwriting audits; a submission that took an underwriter 6-8 hours can be completed in as little as 10-15 minutes. FurtherAI supports customers writing over $15B in premiums across all 50 US states, serving insurers, reinsurers, MGAs and brokers. Founded 2024, $30M total funding, backed by a16z, Y Combinator, Nexus, South Park Commons and Converge. Both founders are engineers. The role Own and scale FurtherAI's AI organization, leading the team building production LLM-powered agents that automate critical insurance workflows, and shaping the technical direction of the entire AI org.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering and managing teams at a VC-backed startup
- Hands-on technical leadership in production LLM agents (model routing, multi-agent orchestration, evals, reliability)
- Experience recruiting, mentoring and retaining engineering teams
Responsibilities
- Own and grow the AI org, scaling it into three teams: AI infrastructure (routing & reliability), Agent intelligence (evals, shared tools, multimodal pipelines), and Agentic products (customer-facing AI assistant, long-running workflows)
- Set technical direction for agents that hold up in real production on real customer money, including model routing, multi-agent orchestration and reliability
- Recruit, mentor and retain a world-class team of AI engineers, hiring the leaders beneath you as the org scales post-Series A
- Stay deeply technical: still in the code and architecture, setting the bar by example
- Push the frontier of what AI agents can do for insurance
Benefits
- competitive equity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
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