Staff Software Engineer, AI - Elite Squad Team

IroncladSan Francisco, CA
Hybrid

About The Position

Ironclad is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for a new elite Squad Team focused on high-priority AI initiatives. This role is for a technical anchor in a small, high-leverage engineering group that moves quickly across product and platform boundaries to incubate new AI capabilities, accelerate strategic bets, and bring ideas from concept to production. The ideal candidate is a high-agency builder with strong technical depth, product sense, urgency, and excellent judgment, who is excited about ambiguity and fast context switching.

Requirements

  • Significant experience building and shipping production software in fast-paced environments.
  • A strong track record of leading 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

  • Equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure)
  • Competitive health and wellness benefits
  • Commitment to career growth and development
  • 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision)
  • 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
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