AI Engineer, LLMs, Autonomous Agents – R&D

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Ascend

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2023

🤝 B2B

💼 Consulting

💰 $2M Seed Round - Ascend on 2025-02

B2B • Consulting

Ascend is a modern platform that partners with entrepreneurial CPA firms, bringing the resources and advantages of a large accounting firm while preserving each firm's independence. Backed by people-focused private equity firm Alpine Investors and founded in January 2023, Ascend provides growth capital, talent acquisition and development, transformative technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives to help regional accounting firms scale. The company is already recognized as a Top 25 firm by Accounting Today.

📋 Description

• Design and ship the autonomous agent framework that makes those workflows vanish behind a chat-first interface • Prototype and deploy autonomous agents that take a request, gather context, decide next steps and deliver finished work with minimal human touch • Design the tool-API layer that lets agents trigger real-world actions (emails, filings, database updates) safely and auditable from day one • Build the backbone of our agents: a lightning-fast context engine that digests messy inbox threads, docs, and notes, and serves only the gold-standard facts to the model • Own the whole eval stack, datasets, lightning-fast benches, and live telemetry, so we can prototype in hours, A/B with real metrics, and ship to prod (or roll back) with total confidence • Embed red-team tests, PI-scrubbing, and role-based access gates directly into the inference path, so safety is baked in, not bolted on • Ship an internal playground where PMs and engineers can compose, test, and share agent chains in minutes, no local setup required.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production-grade frontend applications • Driven by speed, innovation, and delivering products that users genuinely love. • Demonstrated experience rapidly designing, building, and iterating product prototypes. • Strong passion for deeply understanding and solving customer problems. • Proven ability to independently design and deliver products that make an immediate impact. • Daily hands-on experience with AI-driven coding tools (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Codex). • Expertise in HTML, CSS (incl. pre-processors), TypeScript, and modern frontend frameworks (React preferred) • Deep understanding of responsive design, accessibility (WCAG), and frontend performance optimization • Familiarity with design systems (e.g., Storybook, Radix, shadcn/ui) and component-based architectures • Experience with modern build systems and tooling (Vite, Webpack, Next.js, Remix, Indexdb, TanStack) • Knowledge of testing tools (Jest, Testing Library, Playwright) and QA practices for frontend applications • Appreciation for elegant code and the craft of UI engineering, clean, maintainable, expressive • Bonus: Exposure to AI/LLM interfaces or agentic UIs a major plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development