AI Engineer(startup experience)

Hi,

My name is Deepankar, and I am a Sr. Recruiter with LinQ Global. I am reaching out regarding an exciting React Developer opportunity

If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity, please contact me directly at and send me a copy of your updated resume.

I’d like to share a brief overview of the position:

Role : AI Software Engineer (VC-Backed Satrtup Experience)

Duration: Full-time

Location: NYC, NY/SFO,CA

We're looking for a senior or staff-level software engineer to build the AI systems that help the world's best and brightest build in the U.S.

You'll own the agents and infrastructure that power complex legal workflows: drafting documents, reviewing evidence, and moving cases toward filing. This includes workflow orchestration, backend services, and evaluations that measure quality and catch regressions. You'll work directly with our legal team to understand their processes and turn early experiments into reliable production systems.

What you'll do:

• Build agentic systems that automate complex, multi-step legal workflows, with human review and intervention at the right points.
• Redesign our task and workflow orchestration to support long-running work, dependencies, retries, and recovery.
• Build evaluation systems to measure output quality, catch regressions, and guide improvements to agents, prompts, and models.
• Improve the architecture of our backend services, event pipelines, and scheduled job infrastructure.
• Make agent execution observable, so we can understand what happened, debug failures, and manage quality, latency, and cost.
• Connect these systems to our internal tools and applicant-facing portal, including the APIs and interfaces people need to supervise their work.

You might be a good fit if:

• You have 4+ years shipping production software, with deep experience in backend systems and experience building AI/ML powered applications.
• You've built with LLMs beyond a basic chat interface and thought carefully about tool use, context, evaluation, and handling unreliable outputs.
• You can work with domain experts to turn nuanced processes and quality judgments into software behavior and meaningful evaluations.
• You're comfortable working in Python and TypeScript, or similar languages.
• You've led projects end to end, from ambiguous requirements through deployment and ongoing operation.
• You have a solid understanding of workflow orchestration and asynchronous systems, including queues, events, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.
• You have high agency: you can independently research unfamiliar problems, test approaches, and drive them to a working solution.

Experience operating agents in production, building eval infrastructure, or working on complex document workflows is especially relevant. Strong engineering judgment matters more to us than experience with a particular framework.

Role Requirements

• Full Stack Engineer with a back-end leaning focus, skilled in TypeScript, React, and project structures.
• Experience with production-level APIs, access controls, and complex systems.
• Understanding of both front-end and back-end architecture.

Candidate Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with a preference for 7-9 years, ideally having shipped full projects or supported open-source initiatives.
• Experience in relational databases like Postgres; familiarity with Python frameworks such as FastAPI or Django is beneficial.

Seniority

·         4+ years of experience shipping production software,​ with deep experience in backend systems and experience building AI/ML powered applications

Work experience

·         Experience at a VC-​backed startup or early employee at a growth-​stage company)

Work experience

Built with LLMs beyond a basic chat interface and thought carefully about tool use,​ context,​ evaluation,​ and handling unreliable outputs

Education

Holds a bachelor's degree or higher,​ preferable in CS or related field.​

Hard skills

Deep expertise in TypeScript and Python

Pain Points

• Need for engineers who can handle back-end complexity while understanding front-end interfaces.
• Focus on improving system architecture and handling end-to-end workflows efficiently.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Generalist with a strong back-end focus, capable of understanding product usage and triaging issues.
• Experience in small environments with close product interaction is crucial.