Lead AI Engineer

This is a senior individual contributor role on a small high-ownership AI engineering team embedded within a larger enterprise legal tech organization. You will help build the next generation of contract-intelligence software working directly with founding leadership to shape architecture strategy and shipped product.

• Collaborate with engineers product managers and designers to architect and develop user-facing AI applications end-to-end.
• Design intelligent solutions spanning both back-end and front-end systems.
• Drive technical strategy roadmaps and engineering best practices across the team.
• Define and implement success metrics for engineering initiatives.
• Initiate and lead technical projects with direct ownership over shipped systems.
• Leverage AI coding tools daily to accelerate development velocity.

• 8 or more years of relevant software engineering experience with at least 4 years focused on building AI or ML products in production.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL/Postgres; working knowledge of at least one additional language such as JavaScript Java or Go.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents or applications using frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph.
• Practical experience integrating large language model APIs (e.g. OpenAI Anthropic) into production systems.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker Kubernetes) and at least one major cloud platform (AWS Azure or GCP).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern version control workflows.
• Background in SaaS startups with direct ownership of backend or AI systems in a small team environment.
• Comfort navigating ambiguous fast-moving environments and delivering results with autonomy.
• Experience with LLM monitoring observability or evaluation tooling is a plus.
• Exposure to fine-tuning or training machine learning models is a plus.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

Salary range: $175000 to $300000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

On-site 5 days per week in New York NY. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate.