Senior Associate, Harness Engineer

Job Duties

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

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California Salary Range: $78000 - $143500

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Minimum Education Required

Bachelor Degree

Minimum Experience Required

4 - 20 years

Shift

First (Day)

Number of Openings

1

Public Transportation Accessible

Yes

Veterans Encouraged to Apply

No

Physical Required

Yes

Drug Test Required

Yes

Compensation

$78,000.00 - $143,500.00 / Annually

Postal Code

55401

Job Type

Full Time

Place of Work

On-site

Requisition ID

139529-A

Job Benefits

Not specified