Staff/Principal AI Engineer Job at Everlaw (Oakland)

Job Description

Everlaw is looking for a Staff/Principal AI Engineer to help design and execute our overall technical strategy of applying AI in our product, directly contributing to our company’s vision of being the AI leader in legal discovery and litigation technology. AI is central to our product – not a bolt-on or afterthought – and represents a step-function advancement of our company’s mission of promoting justice by illuminating truth. We take the hardest problems of applying AI to complex litigation reasoning tasks, at the scale of millions (or 100s of millions) of documents and multimodal inputs.

Job Responsibility

Lead the design and implementation of Everlaw's technical AI strategy
Guide the work of engineers across our company in using AI
Collaborate with other software engineers, security engineers, data scientists, product leads and designers, and other cross-functional teams
Be on the lookout for new opportunities that AI enables

Requirements

At least 6 years of experience working in ML/AI
10+ years overall in software engineering
Led significant AI projects, including applied use of LLMs in production settings and experience with NLP/text analysis
Programming skills in at least one scripting language (like Python)
A constant learner, staying abreast of the latest AI developments
Able to collaborate effectively with coworkers on different teams
Willing to share knowledge and help others learn

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

What we offer

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 and approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leave
Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
Membership to Modern Health to help employees prioritize mental health and wellness
Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
Work in Downtown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants
You will get a powerful Linux laptop and be able to customize your desk setup
Bond over team lunches and out-of-the-box events
Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choice
Take advantage of learning and career development opportunities

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