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.