Senior Associate, Harness Engineer

Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Seramount, Fair360 and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team. KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Associate, Harness Engineer to join our Clients, Technology and Innovation organization. Responsibilities: - Design, build, and ship production features hands-on and at high velocity within established standards and architecture - Own end-to-end workstream engineering, focusing on hardening, scalability, reliability, and maintaining live environments under scale - Deliver functional software in two-to-six-week cycles, actively utilizing direct stakeholder feedback while surfacing risks and constraints early - Join working sessions with key stakeholders and present technical progress through product demos, narrative, and working software - Pair with senior engineers to raise the quality bar through rigorous code reviews, comprehensive testing, and detailed documentation - Build core agent loop components (orchestration, state, step limits), tool layers (schemas, validation, dispatch), context engineering (retrieval, memory), and evaluation infrastructure (CI regression suites, telemetry) - Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment Qualifications: - Minimum four years of recent, hands-on experience shipping secure production software, specifically focused on data, ML, and AI-native applications - Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in a STEM field or five years of relevant practical experience - Deep experience hardening, scaling, and operating live systems in production cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud (GCP)) - Deep fluency with modern AI coding harnesses, agentic tooling (for example, Claude Code, Cursor, frameworks), and the broader open-source LLM ecosystem - Early signals of technical leadership, including a strong product mindset, startup velocity, owning outcomes, and raising the capability of surrounding engineers (founder or early-stage startup experience is a strong plus); possess a portfolio or GitHub repository showing shipped systems is a plus - Excellent customer-facing presence and communication skills to make complex technical products compelling to non-technical audiences - Ability to travel domestically as needed KPMG LLP and its affiliates and subsidiaries ("KPMG") complies with all local/state regulations regarding displaying salary ranges. If required, the ranges displayed below or via the URL below are specifically for those potential hires who will work in the location(s) listed. Any offered salary is determined based on relevant factors such as applicant's skills, job responsibilities, prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications and market considerations. In addition, KPMG LLP is proud to offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, with options designed to help you make the best decisions for yourself, your family, and your lifestyle. Available benefits are based on eligibility. Depending on job classification, standard work hours, and years of service, KPMG LLP provides a Total Rewards Package that includes 401(k) and medical and may include dental, vision, disability and life insurance, personal well-being and Personal Time Off. Additionally, each year KPMG publishes a calendar of h