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Staff Software Engineer, Agents

New York💼 Full-time💰 $231,000–$231,000🗓 2026-07-22 → 2026-08-02

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, model selection systems, and evaluation harnesses

Domain

Legal technology + Agentic AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

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 with subagent patterns, caching strategies, parallel tool calls, profiling agent behavior

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 to implement low-latency agent execution infrastructure; 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

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