Senior Associate, Harness Engineer

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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 Git Hub repository showing shipped systems is a plus Excellent customer-facing presence and communication skills to make complex technical products compelling to non-technical audiences

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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…