Ironclad
Principal Engineer
$285K–$315K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted May 1, 2026
- Experience
- At least 10+ years of software experience.
- Education
- A formal degree is not required; the posting prioritizes industry experience.
About the job
Architect and deliver AI-powered contract intelligence products and platform capabilities for enterprise legal teams.
What you'll do
- Own and evolve core platform architecture for AI capabilities, including service boundaries, data models, multi-tenant scale, and reliability.
- Lead cross-functional design and end-to-end delivery of AI-powered product experiences, from problem definition and experimentation through production.
- Set technical direction, mentor and recruit engineers, and partner on testing strategy.
What they ask for
- At least 10+ years of software experience architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex systems.
- Track record driving technical strategy and architectural evolution across organizations, with leadership across teams.
- Deep experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed SaaS or platform architectures.
- Experience building AI applications and shipping AI-powered product features to production.
Nice to have
- AI product experience ideally including LLM integration, retrieval, experimentation, and measurement.
Pay
USD $285,000 - $315,000 base salary
Tools
TypeScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, LLMs
AI focus
Build AI-powered contract intelligence features and production systems using capabilities such as LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and classification.
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