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Everlaw

Staff AI Engineer

$228K–$288K

Oakland, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jan 28, 2026

Experience
At least 6 years in ML/AI and 8+ years overall in software engineering.

About the job

Lead Everlaw’s AI strategy and implementation for applying AI to large-scale legal discovery and litigation tasks, while guiding engineers and shaping product direction.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement the technical AI strategy, including approaches to frontier models and AI at trillion-token scale.
  • Guide and mentor engineers across the organization on AI, sharing developments and expertise.
  • Collaborate with engineering, security, data science, product, design, and other teams to identify and deliver AI opportunities.

What they ask for

  • At least 6 years of experience working in ML/AI and 8+ years overall in software engineering.
  • Experience leading significant AI projects, including applying LLMs in production and NLP/text analysis.
  • Programming skills in at least one scripting language, such as Python.
  • Ability to collaborate across teams, communicate technical concepts clearly, and share knowledge.

Nice to have

  • Experience with retrieval-based LMs or RAG, knowledge representation, vector or graph databases, multimodal processing, or AI agents.
  • Previous experience with SaaS and distributed systems.

Pay

$228,000 - $288,000 USD base salary

Tools

LLMs, NLP, Python, RAG, vector databases, graph databases, MCP

AI focus

Apply AI, including frontier models and evolving open-source offerings, to legal discovery and litigation reasoning at very large scale; guide AI adoption and identify new product opportunities.

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