Senior Software Engineer, AI - Squad Team
About The Position
Ironclad is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, AI to join a new elite Squad Team. This small, high-leverage engineering group will focus on fast-moving, high-priority AI initiatives across Ironclad. The Squad Team is designed to move quickly across product and platform boundaries, incubating new AI capabilities, accelerating strategic bets, unblocking critical delivery gaps, and bringing promising ideas from concept to production. As a member of the Squad Team, you will be a technical anchor, reporting to the VP Engineering of AI. You will work across multiple codebases and domains, partner closely with product and engineering leaders, and help execute the company’s most important AI initiatives. This role is ideal for individuals who are excited about ambiguity, energized by fast context switching, and motivated by building real products that deliver customer value quickly. We are hiring for a range of levels for this role, which is suited for high-agency builders who combine strong technical depth with product sense, urgency, and excellent judgment.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
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
- Opportunity to help build the company you want to work at
- Equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
