Draftwise
Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Backend - New York
$135K–$175K
New York City, NY · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 25, 2026
About the job
Build and deploy backend and AI systems that adapt Draftwise’s legal drafting, review, and search product to law firms’ workflows.
What you'll do
- Model firm precedent and playbooks in the legal ontology and build backend features and services.
- Develop and evaluate production LLM workflows, including prompts, retrieval, and quality measurement on customer data.
- Support firm deployments and improve platform scale and performance through profiling, query tuning, and cost work.
What they ask for
- Comfort with SQL, API design, and debugging services written by others.
- Backend engineering experience building real software; no specific programming language is required.
- High ownership, user focus, and ability to turn customer problems into technical models or fixes.
- Interest in LLMs and judgment about their strengths and limitations.
Nice to have
- Project or internship experience with retrieval systems, evaluation harnesses, or agent frameworks.
- Customer-facing experience or exposure to legal, financial, or other document-heavy domains.
Pay
USD 135,000–175,000 (YEARLY), base salary
Tools
Postgres, OpenSearch, AWS, TypeScript, React, Claude Code
AI focus
Build and test prompts, retrieval and evaluation infrastructure, and measure LLM quality on real customer data; use AI tools with judgment.
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