We're looking for an engineer to lead our internal AI agent enablement efforts. You'll build the systems that let AI agents safely and effectively increase velocity across Sphere, starting with engineering and expanding into ops, customer success, tax research, and implementation workflows.
\nWithin days: Ship AI agent features that help Sphere's engineering team use agents more effectively and responsibly. Iterate on versions of Sphere's agent sandbox environments. Create workflows where agents can inspect the codebase, run local infrastructure, make changes, run tests, and prepare work for human review. Work directly with engineers to identify high-leverage internal workflows where agents can create immediate velocity.
\nWithin months: Lead Sphere's internal efforts to enable AI agents to act more autonomously across engineering, ops, customer success, tax research, and implementation. Build 'Goose' for Sphere: the internal AI agent layer that helps agents understand and operate across Sphere's systems. Own the infrastructure, tooling, and workflows that let agents safely take on more complex internal work over time. Establish the patterns for how Sphere uses agents internally, including context, permissions, review, observability, and escalation.
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\nYou'll be the first CS hire at Sphere, building a full customer lifecycle function from scratch. Triaging customer issues, expanding contracts, and enhancing our CS ops stack. You'll get deep on cross-border compliance, protect engineering bandwidth, and operate with a high degree of autonomy.
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\nWe're looking for someone with proven experience building out CS processes, teams, and playbooks, preferably in early-stage startups. You should be comfortable navigating admin tools, reading API documentation, and handling basic data validation to resolve issues quickly.
","enriched_at":1777036461162},{"id":"job_b5cca71a-e89","title":"Founding Forward Deployed Engineer","source_url":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sphere/7b5f39b0-6f3f-4bc4-9469-74ae9722d85a","location":"San Francisco HQ","job_type":"Full time","experience_level":null,"work_arrangement":"onsite","category":"Engineering","description":"As the Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Sphere, you'll embed directly with Sphere's most strategic customers to understand their cross-border business workflows, identify the highest-impact compliance challenges, and design and deliver custom solutions that make Sphere fit seamlessly into their operations.
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\nThis role is ideal for engineers who thrive on owning problems end-to-end, from discovery to deployment, and who are energized by the challenge of translating intricate, jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements into elegant, production-grade software. We're looking for someone who is as comfortable in a customer conversation as they are in a codebase, and who brings the same rigor to building internal processes as they do to solving customer problems.
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\nEvery breakthrough in trade infrastructure has followed the same pattern: reduce a transaction cost, expand the market. Sphere built the system that solves it. Our AI (TRAM) ingests global trade law, interprets it, resolves conflicts across jurisdictions, and produces compliance determinations more reliable than human experts.
\nWe are seeking a highly experienced tax professional to serve as the bridge between tax domain expertise and AI/engineering teams. This role will oversee the development and validation of our AI-driven tax engine, TRAM, by guiding research teams, refining tax logic, and ensuring the system produces accurate, defensible outcomes.
\n$100K – $150K
\nEvery breakthrough in trade infrastructure has followed the same pattern: reduce a transaction cost, expand the market. Containerization for goods. SWIFT for money. Stripe for payments. Compliance is one of the last and largest , and the hardest, because trade rules aren't data to be looked up. They're a complex adaptive system with 190+ sovereign jurisdictions, in different languages, changing constantly, reacting to each other.
\nSphere built the system that solves it. Our AI (TRAM) ingests global trade law, interprets it, resolves conflicts across jurisdictions, and produces compliance determinations more reliable than human experts. We handle the entire lifecycle , calculation, registration, filing, remittance , at millisecond latency with zero downtime.
\nWe’re looking for a swiss army knife / Chief of Staff to work directly with our CEO at [Sphere](https://www.getsphere.com/). You'll be an extension of Nick, helping him across GTM, Ops, Finance, Tax and more. It will be intense (our Founder is an intense person) but you'll learn more than you would in any other role.
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\nWe're looking for senior full stack engineers who will own and build out new product lines such as input tax, withholding tax, e-invoicing, and tariffs as well as mission-critical parts of the Sphere platform.
\nWithin weeks, you'll ship mission-critical features that clients will use daily, own and manage a feature, and drive measurable outcomes. You'll work directly with customers to improve and optimize key components of the platform.
\nWithin months, you'll own the end-to-end development of new product lines that will help build out our AI-native revenue-based compliance platform. You'll lead and mentor additional engineers in component areas that you have worked in.
\nYou'll thrive here if you're a dog who's been underestimated, gone through struggle, and never stopped running. You have a chip on your shoulder and enormous drive. You look at Stripe, Deel, and Flexport all punting on compliance and think: good, that means the opportunity is ours. Hunger beats pedigree.
\nYou own it end to end. Give you a goal and you figure out your own path. Small team, global surface area , everyone owns a domain that would be a full team at a larger company. No one tells you how.
\nYou believe speed and accuracy are both possible. We're building a complex product that requires robustness and 100% uptime, and we have to build at our customers' pace. Move fast. Don't break things. Both.
\nBeing in the room is a feature, not a cost. Five days in SF isn't a policy, it's how the work gets done. The speed and density of collaboration we need doesn't survive over video.
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\nYou'll build the data pipelines that ingest legal sources, the model stack that produces structured evidence, the evaluation frameworks that measure accuracy, and the fine-tuning loops that improve performance. The unusual constraint: you need speed, scale, correctness, and robustness simultaneously , at millisecond latency, zero downtime, heading toward billions of transactions where a single error costs a customer $20K.
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\nBuild out partner channels: We get 35% of our inbount leads from partners (accounting / tax firms, other fintech software providers). We want to double down on that in the US and especially internationally.
\nSet up international GTM operations: What we do best is international and it continues to be our strategic focus into 2026. You'll need to help build out our growth channels in these regions and may even set up there for a period of time.
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