Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform

Everlaw • Oakland, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Everlaw is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform to build and operate AI platform capabilities that power user-facing software in complex ecosystems. This role involves transforming legal tech with software and AI, applying patterns like retrieval, vector search, model orchestration, evaluation, and agentic patterns, alongside search, databases, and real-time collaboration. The position offers significant autonomy across the full stack, with opportunities to specialize in areas such as RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, or large-scale retrieval pipelines. Everlaw values self-driven engineers who are passionate about their craft, write clean software, use appropriate tools, and avoid dogma. The company fosters a culture of ownership, learning, and collaboration, with a focus on building reliable, reproducible, explainable, scalable, and secure systems. The mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth, supported by a vibrant company culture committed to professional growth through learning and development stipends, career check-ins, and mentoring.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent coursework.
• Experience and proficiency in coding in a language such as C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Javascript, Go or Rust.
• Good knowledge of algorithms and fundamental computer science concepts, relational databases, API design, and building user interfaces.
• Practical experience with AI/ML-powered systems such as retrieval pipelines, semantic search features, agentic pipelines, document classification systems, or LLM-integrated features.
• Work experience with AI development tools like Cursor and Claude Code, accelerating your planning, coding, and testing of production features.
• At least 4 years of experience building distributed systems in the cloud with service based architecture, using frontend frameworks to create rich, deep, web applications, and experience with the best practices to test, maintain, and launch cloud based software.
• At least 1 year of experience leading or coordinating multi-developer efforts, including planning and technical breakdown.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with building software on the AWS platform.
• Familiarity with MySQL, Postgres.
• Familiarity with vector or graph databases.
• Familiarity with LLMOps.

Responsibilities

• Build AI platform capabilities that power product experiences such as Deep Dive, predictive coding, multi-modal understanding, agentic workflows, translations, search, review, and more.
• Contribute to RAG, semantic retrieval, and agentic orchestration patterns, including indexing pipelines, query flows, tool-calling and planning logic, relevance tuning, benchmarking, and multi-modal workloads where applicable.
• Collaborate with Product, Platform, Security, and DevOps partners to build and ship new features in our production environments.
• Help with scaling our system to larger datasets with hundreds of millions of documents.
• Provide Technical Mentorship to other engineers by both sharing your technical knowledge and becoming an expert in an area of our code base.
• Be a Code Reviewer by reviewing code developed by others using your knowledge of programming languages, design patterns, and best practices.
• Fix defects in our product by triaging product or system issues and writing code to debug, track and resolve these issues.
• Provide on-call support for the product by answering questions from customers, triaging defects and exceptions, and carrying the pager.
• Contribute to documentation for internal engineering consumption or for external the Everlaw platform.
• Do technical interviews to help us recruit engineers and grow the team.

Benefits

• The expected salary range for this role is between $173,000 - $251,000.
• Equity program
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• Health, dental, and vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Paid parental leave and approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leave
• Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
• Membership to Modern Health to help employees prioritize mental health and wellness
• Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior