# Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform

**Company:** [Everlaw](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/everlaw)
**Location:** Oakland, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $173k – $251k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, Rust, RAG, LLMs, Semantic Search, Vector Databases, AWS, Postgres, MySQL, Distributed Systems, Cloud Architecture, Frontend Frameworks
**Posted:** 2026-05-08

> Builds and operates AI platform capabilities including RAG pipelines, semantic retrieval, agentic orchestration, and LLM integrations to power legal tech products. Requires 4+ years in distributed cloud systems, AI/ML experience, and proficiency in modern programming languages.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build AI platform capabilities powering product experiences like Deep Dive, predictive coding, multi-modal understanding, agentic workflows, translations, search, and review.
- Contribute to RAG, semantic retrieval, and agentic orchestration patterns, including indexing pipelines, query flows, tool-calling, planning logic, relevance tuning, benchmarking, and multi-modal workloads.
- Collaborate with Product, Platform, Security, and DevOps to build and ship features in production.
- Scale system to handle hundreds of millions of documents.
- Provide technical mentorship to engineers and become expert in codebase.
- Perform code reviews using knowledge of languages, design patterns, and best practices.
- Fix defects by triaging issues and writing code to debug, track, and resolve.
- Provide on-call support, answering customer questions, triaging defects, and carrying pager.
- Contribute to internal and external documentation.
- Conduct technical interviews for recruiting.

## Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Proficiency in coding with C, C++, C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, Go, or Rust.
- Knowledge of algorithms, fundamental CS concepts, relational databases, API design, and building user interfaces.
- Practical experience with AI/ML systems: retrieval pipelines, semantic search, agentic pipelines, document classification, or LLM-integrated features.
- Experience with AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code.
- At least 4 years building distributed cloud systems with service-based architecture, frontend frameworks for rich web apps, and best practices for testing, maintaining, launching cloud software.
- At least 1 year leading or coordinating multi-developer efforts.

## Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with AWS.
- Familiarity with MySQL, Postgres.
- Familiarity with vector or graph databases.
- Familiarity with LLMOps.

## Compensation
**Salary range:** $173,000 - $251,000 (dependent on experience and skills).  
Equity program, 401(k) matching, health/dental/vision, FSA, paid parental leave, sick leave, vacation, holidays, mental health benefits, L&D stipend, life/disability insurance.

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