Lead AI Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join an early-stage product engineering team building AI-powered contract intelligence software for enterprise legal teams. You will help shape a customer-facing application that uses agentic workflows to support complex contract work. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Architect, build, and own user-facing application features across front-end and back-end systems. - Develop and ship production agentic workflows that use tools and orchestration to solve complex product problems. - Collaborate with engineering, product, and design partners to deliver product capabilities. - Drive technical strategy, engineering practices, and project roadmaps. - Define and implement measures of success for the team and its product work. - Take end-to-end ownership of technical projects in a fast-changing environment. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including 6 or more years building AI products professionally. - Experience at a SaaS startup and ownership of end-to-end software development on a small team. - Experience shipping customer-facing, multi-step, tool-using agentic products to production, beyond simple RAG chatbots or internal tools. - Strong production engineering skills across multiple programming languages, including Python and JavaScript, with React or a modern front-end framework. - Proficiency with SQL and PostgreSQL, databases, Git, and CI/CD. - Experience with agent frameworks or orchestration tools such as LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, or AutoGen. - Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and a major cloud platform, plus experience with LLM evaluation, monitoring, or model training. - A computer science degree, broad experience across AI domains, and a track record of working through ambiguous technical challenges. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary is $175,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site, five days per week in New York, NY.