# AI Agent Infrastructure Lead at Sphere

- Company: Sphere
- What the company does: Manage VAT, GST, and sales tax worldwide with Sphere’s global tax compliance software. Automate registration, calculation, and filing seamlessly. Backed by Y Combinator, a16z and Felicis.
- Company website: https://www.getsphere.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco HQ
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sphere/9e1defbe-b135-4117-90b0-06548fa75fa7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sphere-ai-agent-infrastructure-lead/

## About the role

Sphere is 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. Ship AI agent features that help Sphere’s engineering team use agents more effectively and responsibly.

## What they're looking for

- Experience building production-quality software
- Experience in AI agents, coding agents, internal developer tooling, or AI agent enablement
- Comfort working across backend systems, infrastructure, local development environments, CI, and internal tools
- Strong judgment around autonomy, safety, permissions, and human review
- High agency. You can take a vague internal problem and turn it into a working system people actually use
- Strong attention to detail. Agents are only useful here if they improve speed without reducing correctness

Tags: Engineering