Draftwise
Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Backend - West Palm Beach
$120K–$150K
West Palm Beach, FL · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 25, 2026
- Experience
- No years specified; production LLM, legal industry, and prior customer-facing experience are not required.
About the job
Build and deploy backend and AI systems for legal drafting, review, and search, modeling law firms’ knowledge and adapting the product to customer workflows.
What you'll do
- Model legal precedent and playbooks into an ontology and build backend services and features.
- Develop and evaluate production LLM workflows, including prompts, retrieval, and quality measurement.
- Support law-firm deployments and improve platform scale, performance, and user-facing features.
What they ask for
- Comfort with SQL, API design, and debugging services written by others.
- Experience building real backend software; programming language is flexible.
- Strong ownership, user focus, curiosity, and ability to work directly with customers.
Nice to have
- Project or internship experience with retrieval systems, evaluation harnesses, or agent frameworks.
- Customer-facing, document-heavy-domain, or real-user product experience.
Pay
USD 120,000–150,000 (YEARLY), base salary
Tools
Postgres, OpenSearch, AWS, TypeScript, React, Claude Code
AI focus
Build and test prompts, retrieval and evaluation scaffolding, and measure LLM quality on real customer data; use AI coding tools with judgment.
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