Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform
Everlaw is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for their AI Platform to build and operate AI capabilities that power user-facing software. This role involves working across the full stack, contributing to RAG, semantic retrieval, and agentic orchestration patterns, and collaborating with various teams to ship new features and scale the system.
Everlaw is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform who has experience in developing and managing AI platform capabilities for user-facing software within complex ecosystems. This role involves transforming legal technology with software and AI, addressing full-stack challenges through the application of retrieval, vector search, model orchestration, evaluation, and agentic patterns, alongside search, databases, and real-time collaboration. The goal is to assist customers in uncovering truth across millions of documents.
You will have significant autonomy to explore the entire system. Opportunities abound to leverage deeper expertise in areas such as RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, or large-scale retrieval pipelines. The ideal candidate is a self-driven engineer who values their craft, writes clean software, chooses appropriate tools, and avoids dogma.
Everlaw prides itself on building sophisticated technology with a talented team, maintaining a culture where engineers own significant capabilities, write high-quality code, learn extensively, and enjoy their work. You will collaborate directly with product and platform partners to deliver impactful AI platform features. The team operates with a high sense of urgency, respecting the profound opportunity ahead, but does not rely on sprints or arbitrary deadlines. Code quality and maintainability are paramount. The core enjoyment comes from the creative process of building systems that are reliable, reproducible, explainable, scalable, and secure, achieved through empowering team members, tackling complex engineering problems, and providing mentoring, coaching, and comprehensive feedback.
Everlaw's mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth. The company fosters an open and vibrant culture, committed to professional growth through an annual learning and development stipend, regular career goal check-ins with managers, and mentoring from staff and principal engineers. If you are passionate, embody integrity, think big, and wish to apply your experience while continuously learning, Everlaw encourages you to apply. Even if you feel you lack some skills, the company values potential and encourages applications.
This is a full-time, on-site position in Oakland, California, with an expected hybrid schedule of 3 days/week in the office and 2 days/week at home.
Posted June 2, 2026