Senior/Staff AI Engineer
Description For Senior/Staff AI Engineer
Ironclad, the leading contract lifecycle management platform, is seeking a Senior/Staff AI Engineer to drive their AI initiatives in transforming legal document management. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technologies like HuggingFace, OpenAI APIs, and Rivet to develop state-of-the-art models for contract analysis.
The position combines technical leadership with hands-on development, focusing on building intelligent systems that extract structured insights from legal documents. You'll work directly with product teams to create AI-powered features while ensuring robust, scalable, and production-ready solutions.
As a Senior/Staff AI Engineer, you'll lead efforts in model evaluation, deployment, and MLOps, ensuring systems are both powerful and practical. The role requires expertise in NLP, machine learning, and software engineering, with opportunities to work on cutting-edge problems in document understanding and legal AI.
Ironclad offers a competitive compensation package including base salary ($160K-$210K), equity, and comprehensive benefits. The company has been recognized by Fortune, Glassdoor, and Forbes for its innovative work and culture. You'll join a collaborative team backed by top investors like Accel, Y Combinator, and Sequoia, working to revolutionize how businesses handle contracts.
This role is perfect for someone passionate about applying AI to solve real business challenges, with the technical depth to build production systems and the leadership skills to drive innovation in a fast-growing company.
Responsibilities For Senior/Staff AI Engineer
- Build models and AI capabilities that ingest legal documents, extract key information, and deliver actionable insights
- Lead the design and implementation of backend services for document understanding, classification, and natural language search
- Explore and apply cutting-edge techniques in NLP, LLM integration, and semantic search
- Design and maintain robust pipelines for model training, evaluation, and inference
- Develop and scale retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems
- Help build foundational AI/ML infrastructure
- Partner closely with product managers and designers
- Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence
- Own and maintain production systems
Requirements For Senior/Staff AI Engineer
- BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in training, evaluating, and serving machine learning models in production
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with Python, backend service development, and RESTful APIs
- 2+ years of experience in NLP techniques
- Proficiency with deep learning frameworks and APIs
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Solid understanding of Git or other version control systems
- Strong engineering fundamentals and attention to code quality, testing, and maintainability
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Passion for building AI products that solve real-world customer problems
Benefits For Senior/Staff AI Engineer
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k
- Wellness reimbursement
- Take what you need vacation policy
- Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers
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