FurtherAI - Director of Engineering - AI Agents
Quick facts
- Pay
- $300,000 - $450,000 a year
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Skills
- Engineering, Python
- Industry
- Information Technology — 678 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B, OPT
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
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
- 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
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name deCircle in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
Occupation: Computer and Information Systems Managers (SOC 11-3021) — estimated from the job title.
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B, OPT
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- TN (citizens of Canada and Mexico)
This role doesn't clearly match a profession on the USMCA (TN) list.
- E-3 (Australia) and H-1B1 (Chile, Singapore)
Same degree requirement as H-1B, but no lottery and a separate quota that is rarely filled.
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
- STEM OPT extension (F-1 students)
Requires an E-Verify employer. We didn't find this company in the E-Verify list — ask HR.
Salary vs prevailing wage
Level IV (fully competent)Computer and Information Systems Managers · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $167,565 | ~15% |
| Level II | $208,104 | ~31% |
| Level III | $248,643 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $289,182 | ~61% |
This job pays $300,000–$450,000 a year — that's Level IV (fully competent). In the wage-weighted H-1B lottery a Level IV registration gets 4 entries; estimated selection chance about 61% — better than average.
* Odds are DHS projections for the FY2027 wage-weighted lottery (actual results vary by year and employer). Since the FY2027 cap season the H-1B lottery is weighted by wage level: Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. The level is set by the offered wage against the prevailing wage for the occupation and worksite. Separately, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions for workers outside the US was announced in 2025; as of September 2026 a federal court ruling keeps it unenforceable while appeals continue — check the current status.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.