Lead AI Engineer

About the Role

Join a small team building enterprise contract-intelligence software powered by customer-facing AI agents. As an early engineering leader, you will shape the product and technical direction while delivering reliable, full-stack systems for complex legal workflows.

What You'll Do

• Architect, build, and own user-facing applications and the backend systems that power them.

• Develop production AI agents that handle multi-step workflows and use tools to support contract analysis.

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver product capabilities.

• Set engineering practices, influence technical strategy, and guide the team's roadmap.

• Define and implement measures of product and engineering success.

• Drive technical projects from initial problem definition through deployment and ongoing improvement.

What We're Looking For

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including 6 or more years building AI products professionally.

• Experience at an early-stage SaaS startup and ownership of end-to-end software development on a small team.

• Evidence of shipping customer-facing, production agentic products with multi-step workflows, tool use, and orchestration.

• Strong Python and SQL/Postgres skills, plus experience with JavaScript, React, or modern frontend frameworks.

• Proficiency across multiple programming languages and experience with agent frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen.

• Experience with databases, CI/CD, Git, and deploying software using Docker, Kubernetes, and a major cloud platform.

• Computer science degree or equivalent strong computer science fundamentals, and experience across multiple AI domains.

• Comfort working through ambiguous technical challenges; experience with LLM evaluation, monitoring, or model training is useful.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range: $175,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site, five days per week in New York, NY.