# FurtherAI - Director of Engineering - AI Agents at deCircle

> Onsite · United States · Director+ · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/recruitee%3Adecircletalentpartner%3A2780342 (read 2026-11-08).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [deCircle](https://alderhq.app/companies/decircle)
- Location text: San Francisco, California, United States
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Onsite · United States (evidence: "Location: San Francisco, California, United States")
- Posted: 2026-10-12 (27 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://talent.makerdao.network/o/furtherai-director-of-engineering-ai-agents
- Skills listed (inferred): Python, LLMs

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $300k–$450k per year (from the description)
- Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 819): p25 $214k, median $254k, p75 $293k

## Description (the employer's text)

Source: Paraform - https://www.paraform.com/share/furtherai/cmrtt91wm00060cjr9af0gg8b · Company: furtherai.com

Location: On-site, 5 days in-office in San Francisco, CA · Full-time · $300K - $450K base salary plus competitive equity · Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers) and visa sponsorships (e.g. new H1B, TN)

### About FurtherAI

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.

### What you'll do

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

### Tech stack

LLMs, Agentic AI, Python, Multi-agent orchestration, Model routing, Evaluation frameworks, Multimodal pipelines

### 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

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