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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