Senior Software Engineer – AI, CoCounsel FDE

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Design and implement AI-driven solutions specifically tailored for legal workflows, including contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis.

• Construct scalable, secure, and maintainable AI systems within architectural frameworks established by the AI Solutions Architect, encompassing RAG pipelines, custom agents, and enterprise integrations.

• Create and configure multi-step agentic workflows utilizing CoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, third-party AI APIs, and enterprise systems.

• Execute observability, evaluation, and quality control measures for production AI systems, which include monitoring, tracing, benchmarking, and red-teaming protocols.

• Engage in technical discovery with clients and legal stakeholders, converting legal workflows and business objectives into clear engineering plans and prototypes.

• Collaborate closely with AI architects, legal AI engineers, and team members to provide high-quality solutions, contribute reusable assets, and enhance engineering practices throughout the team.

• Assess and prototype emerging AI methodologies, interoperability standards, and prompt engineering approaches to enhance solution quality and speed of delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience with a robust foundation in system design, distributed systems, and clean architecture.

• A minimum of 2 years of practical experience in building and deploying AI/ML or LLM-powered applications in production environments.

• Strong expertise in Python and backend engineering, with experience in developing RESTful APIs, asynchronous services, and event-driven systems.

• Familiarity with orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, or AutoGen, along with a solid understanding of RAG architectures and vector databases.

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP, as well as knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD practices, and secure API development.

• Proficiency in observability and AI evaluation tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, LangSmith, Langfuse, Braintrust, or Weights & Biases.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently in ambiguous, client-facing situations, including collaboration with legal professionals and non-technical stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flex My Way supportive workplace policies.

• Flexible work arrangements, including the option to work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks each year.

• Career Development and Growth programs.

• Flexible vacation options.

• Two company-wide Mental Health Days off.

• Access to the Headspace app.

• Retirement savings plans.

• Tuition reimbursement programs.

• Employee incentive initiatives.

• Resources promoting mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Optional hospital, accident, and sickness insurance fully paid by the employee.

• Optional life and AD&D insurance fully paid by the employee.

• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.

• Fitness reimbursement opportunities.

• Access to Employee Assistance Program.

• Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit fully paid by the employee.

• Access to 529 Plan.

• Commuter benefits.

• Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance.

• Tuition Reimbursement programs.

• Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.