Staff Software Engineer - Applied AI

🕒 September 11, 2025

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $210k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Ironclad

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201 - 500 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Enterprise • AI

Ironclad is a leading company providing AI-powered contract management software that enables businesses to manage contracts across their entire lifecycle with greater efficiency and security. Their platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed for legal, sales, finance, HR, marketing, and procurement teams, integrating capabilities such as drafting, editing, negotiation, search, storage, analytics, and e-signature in one cohesive system. Ironclad's advanced AI features assist in legal drafting and research, optimizing the contract creation and management process for enterprises worldwide. They are widely recognized as a leader in the contract lifecycle management industry.

📋 Description

• Build and Tune models and AI capabilities that ingest legal documents, extract key information, and deliver actionable insights to customers • Implementing backend services that power document understanding, classification, and natural language search • 2 years of previous experience exploring and applying cutting-edge techniques in NLP, LLM integration, Prompt / Context Engineering, and semantic search to advance Ironclad’s AI/ML vision • 2 years of previous experience designing and maintaining robust systems for context management, model training / tuning, orchestration, evaluation & inference, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and observability • 2 years of previous experience developing and scaling retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and agent-based orchestration frameworks for complex legal workflows • Help build foundational AI/ML infrastructure, including tools for experimentation, model versioning, and online/offline performance monitoring • Partner closely with product managers and designers to shape user-facing AI experiences and deliver value through APIs and intelligent features

🎯 Requirements

• BS or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field • Experience working with large language models (e.g., GPT, Claude) or building RAG systems • Experience with embedding models and vector databases • Experience in training, evaluating, and serving AI/ML models • 7+ years of hands-on experience with Python, backend service development, and RESTful APIs • Experience in NLP techniques such as text classification, entity extraction, document understanding, or question answering • Proficiency with AI frameworks and APIs (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace , OpenAI , LangChain) • 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

• Health, dental, and vision insurance • 401k • Wellness reimbursement • Take what you need vacation policy • Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers