Staff Software Engineer, Agents
Core
Design environments and actions for agentic professional work, manage context windows, create optimal tools, and develop evaluations to enable faster iteration loops for AI agents serving legal professionals.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer, Agents
Builds
AI agents for legal workflows including M&A diligence, contract playbook application, litigation retrieval, and board-ready document generation
Domain
Legal technology + Agentic AI systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, LLM APIs, agent frameworks, prompt engineering, model selection, tool design, skill writing, context window management, eval harness development, low-latency infrastructure design, observability/instrumentation
Preferred skills
Experience shipping user-facing products (backend or full-stack), iterative mindset for rapid v0 shipping, adaptability to new frameworks
Technologies
Python, LLM APIs, agent frameworks
Responsibilities
Partner with customers and PMs to design practical evaluations for legal workflows; Optimize agent performance via prompt engineering and tool design; Work with model infra team on low-latency execution and caching strategies; Improve observability to profile agent behavior and identify bottlenecks; Stay current on agentic systems developments and integrate learnings into products
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact