Senior Software Engineer, AI
Lead design and delivery of high-priority AI initiatives across multiple codebases. Build and ship AI-powered features with strong backend fundamentals and product sense.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Lead the design and delivery of high-priority AI initiatives across Ironclad, from early prototype through production launch.
- Rapidly ramp into new systems, codebases, and problem areas, and drive execution with minimal hand-holding.
- Incubate new product ideas in areas such as contract AI, agentic workflows, intelligent extraction, search, and automation.
- Partner closely with product, design, legal domain experts, and go-to-market teams to turn customer needs into shipped product.
- Raise the engineering bar through strong technical judgment, crisp execution, and pragmatic use of AI-assisted development tools.
- Identify organizational or technical bottlenecks and help close them, whether by building, debugging, simplifying, or unblocking teams.
- Mentor other engineers through hands-on leadership, code reviews, technical direction, and example-setting.
- Help shape how Ironclad builds with modern AI systems, including evals, orchestration, prompting, retrieval, and production quality standards.
What We’re Looking For
Execution
- Ability to build and ship production software in fast-paced environments.
- Ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional efforts and turning them into concrete outcomes.
- High agency and ownership: you see gaps, form a point of view, and drive things forward.
- Strong bias to action, with the ability to balance speed and quality.
- Excellent collaboration skills and low ego; you work well by influence, not just authority.
Technical Strength
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, especially in backend systems and distributed systems.
- Ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly and be productive in codebases you did not originally build.
- Experience building AI-powered product features, platforms, or internal developer systems.
- Familiarity with modern LLM application patterns such as agentic workflows, retrieval, evals, tool use, and quality/error analysis.
- Comfort using AI coding tools to accelerate development, while maintaining engineering rigor and sound judgment.
Product Mindset
- Strong product instinct and customer empathy.
- You care not just about whether a system works, but whether it solves an important user problem.
- Excitement about iterating quickly, learning from real usage, and improving product quality over time.
Tech Stack
Our stack includes TypeScript, React, Node.js, and cloud-native infrastructure. Experience with the exact stack is less important than your ability to learn quickly, operate across systems, and ship high-quality work.
Success Looks Like
- Help launch meaningful new AI capabilities faster.
- Unblock important initiatives across teams.
- Elevate execution quality wherever you engage.
- Become a trusted technical leader for high-priority, cross-cutting work.
- Help Ironclad build durable advantage in contract AI.
Benefits
- 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options available.
- Market-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave.
- Family forming support through Maven for you and your partner.
- Paid time off - take the time you need, when you need it.
- Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and (if applicable) cell phone use.
- Mental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits (US Employees).
- 401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match (US Employees).
- Regular team events to connect, recharge, and have fun.
Skills
TypeScript, React, Node.js, Backend Systems, Distributed Systems, Llm Application Patterns, Agentic Workflows, Retrieval, Evals, Ai Coding Tools
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