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Lead AI Engineer

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Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 24 August 2026 (6 days ago)
Application Deadline: 21 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Full-Stack AI Engineer

Location: Remote / Flexible
Employment Type: Full-time
Focus: AI Agents Enterprise Legal Tech Contract Intelligence Full-Stack Engineering

About Our Client

Our client is building the next generation of contract intelligence software for the enterprise.

Their platform is focused on transforming contracts from static archive documents into active business systems that help power enterprise workflows decision-making and automation.

Following a recent acquisition the team is operating as a focused founder-led group inside a larger enterprise software company. This gives engineers the opportunity to work with the speed and ownership of a startup while benefiting from the reach resources and customer base of an established market leader.

The enterprise legal technology market is at a major inflection point and our client is building AI-native products to help define the next era of contract management and contract intelligence.

About the Role

Our client is hiring a Full-Stack AI Engineer to help build and bring to market a contract operating system for the enterprise.

This person will join as an early engineer on a newly integrated high-ownership team. Youll work directly with the founding team and collaborate closely with engineers product managers and designers to architect build and own user-facing applications powered by AI agent technology.

This is a strong fit for an engineer who enjoys ambiguous high-impact problems wants meaningful product influence and is already using AI coding tools as part of their daily engineering workflow.

What Youll Do

  • Build full-stack product experiences for enterprise contract intelligence software

  • Work directly with the founding team in a focused high-impact product group

  • Architect develop and own user-facing applications from concept through production

  • Design intelligent solutions across frontend backend data and AI agent systems

  • Build with AI agent frameworks and modern AI-native development workflows

  • Help define technical strategy engineering standards and product roadmap execution

  • Promote strong engineering practices across architecture code quality testing CI/CD and reliability

  • Initiate influence and drive meaningful technical projects

  • Partner with product design and engineering to shape product direction

  • Help define success metrics and measurement systems for the engineering team

  • Contribute to products serving enterprise legal procurement and contract workflows

What Were Looking For

  • 4 years of experience building AI products or AI-powered software

  • Strong full-stack engineering experience across backend frontend databases and production systems

  • Professional experience with Python SQL databases CI/CD and Git

  • Experience with AI agent frameworks such as LangGraph CrewAI AutoGen or similar tools

  • Daily use of AI coding tools such as Cursor Codex Claude Code or similar platforms

  • Comfort working in ambiguous fast-changing environments

  • Strong ownership mindset and desire to have meaningful impact on the business

  • Ability to architect and ship high-quality software in a small focused team

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering product and design

  • Interest in enterprise software legal tech contract intelligence or AI workflow automation

Bonus Experience

  • Startup experience or experience operating in a small high-ownership product team

  • Experience building AI agents RAG systems workflow automation or enterprise AI applications

  • Experience with legal tech contract lifecycle management procurement software or enterprise SaaS

  • Experience working in founder-led teams or post-acquisition product environments

  • Experience shaping technical roadmaps and engineering standards in early-stage environments

Why This Opportunity

  • Join an early founder-led team inside a larger enterprise software company

  • Work directly on best-in-class AI agent technology

  • Build products in a large and rapidly evolving enterprise legal tech market

  • Own meaningful product and technical decisions from day one

  • Help shape the future of contract intelligence and enterprise contract automation

  • Operate with startup-level ownership while benefiting from enterprise reach and resources

  • Build alongside a focused team working directly with senior leadership

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineer who has already built AI-powered products and wants to take on meaningful ownership in a fast-moving environment.

They are comfortable working across frontend backend databases and AI agent systems. They use AI coding tools every day enjoy solving ambiguous problems and want to help build enterprise software that turns contracts into intelligent business infrastructure.


Required Experience:

IC


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