Staff AI Engineer

Oakland, California, United States. Posted 9 months ago

The role

You will lead the design and implementation of the technical AI strategy and guide a core squad of AI engineers. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to apply AI to complex litigation reasoning tasks at scale.

What you will do

Lead the design and implementation of the technical AI strategy.
Stay on the cutting edge of frontier models and participate in early access programs with AI labs.
Devise the approach to using AI at trillion-token scale.
Guide the work of engineers across the company in using AI.
Collaborate with software engineers, security engineers, data scientists, product leads and designers.
Identify new opportunities where ML/AI tech translates to Legal Tech.

Required qualifications

At least 6 years of experience working in ML/AI
8+ years overall in software engineering
Led significant AI projects, including applied use of LLMs in production settings
Experience with NLP/text analysis
Programming skills in at least one scripting language like Python
Ability to collaborate effectively with coworkers on different teams

Nice to have

Used Retrieval-based LMs or hybrid approaches with RAG to find answers in very large custom data sets
Designed approaches for storage and representation of knowledge, and are familiar with vector and graph databases
Explored multimodal approaches, including image, audio, or video processing
Built agents to accomplish tasks, including approaches for supervision, backtracking, exception handling, tool use, MCP, etc.
Previous experience with SaaS and distributed systems

Benefits

Equity program
401(k) retirement plan with company matching
Health, dental, and vision
Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
Paid parental leave
Approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leave
Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
Membership to Modern Health
Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

About the company

Everlaw is a company building AI to re-wire the legal industry with a mission to illuminate the truth.