Lead AI Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a focused team building enterprise contract-intelligence software. As a senior, hands-on engineer, you will help shape a customer-facing application that uses AI agents to support complex contract workflows. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Architect, develop, and own user-facing application features across frontend and backend systems. - Build and ship production AI agent workflows for contract intelligence. - Collaborate with engineering, product, and design partners to deliver product capabilities. - Promote strong engineering practices and help guide technical strategy and roadmaps. - Define measures of success and drive technical projects from idea through delivery. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including 6 or more years building AI products professionally. - Experience in a SaaS startup environment and ownership of end-to-end software development on a small team. - Demonstrated experience shipping customer-facing, multi-step agentic products to production, including tool use and orchestration. - Strong Python and SQL/PostgreSQL skills, plus proficiency in JavaScript and React or a modern frontend framework. - Experience with agent frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen, and familiarity with databases, Git, and CI/CD. - Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP. - Computer science degree or equivalent fundamentals, with experience across multiple AI domains; monitoring, evaluations, or model training experience is valuable. - Comfort working through ambiguous technical challenges and using AI coding tools in day-to-day development. 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.