Senior/Staff Software Engineer in AI

Ironclad is the leading AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform, processing billions of contracts every year.

Every business is powered by contracts, but managing them can slow companies down and cost millions of dollars. Global innovators like L’Oréal, OpenAI, and Salesforce trust Ironclad to transform contracting into a strategic advantage - accelerating revenue, reducing risk, and driving efficiency. It’s the only platform that manages every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement or a complex NDA.

We’re building the future of intelligent contracting and writing the narrative for how contracts unlock strategic growth. Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant have consistently recognized Ironclad as a leader in our category. We’ve also been named one of Fortune’s Great Places to Work six years running, featured on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work, and recognized by Forbes’ 50 Most Promising AI Companies.

We’re backed by leading investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and BOND. We’d love for you to join us!

AI Engineering @ Ironclad

Ironclad is accelerating its AI initiatives, starting with the successful launch of Jurist and many AI-powered features. We're looking for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to help scale our AI capabilities and lead the development of product-facing applications powered by LLMs and ML capabilities. In this role, you’ll play a central part in turning state-of-the-art AI into intuitive, reliable experiences that solve real problems for legal teams.

As a key member of the AI teams, you’ll work across the stack to design and ship user-facing features, build scalable systems that integrate with LLMs, and help shape the technical strategy behind Ironclad’s AI product surface. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers and designers to prototype, test, and iterate quickly, and work directly with customers to gather feedback and validate impact. If you thrive at the intersection of AI and product, and enjoy solving real user problems with code, this role is for you.

What you’ll do:

• Design and build full-stack applications that integrate AI/LLM capabilities into intuitive, performant user experiences
• Own and scale backend systems that support high-throughput, low-latency AI product features
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and AI/ML engineers to turn ideas into working software
• Guide architectural decisions, mentor team members, and promote engineering best practices
• Evaluate and integrate emerging LLM technologies and APIs into the product surface where appropriate
• Drive data-informed product development by leveraging metrics and instrumentation
• Help grow the team through interviewing, mentoring, and knowledge sharing
• Contribute to a modern TypeScript-based codebase using agile and iterative development processes

Required skills:

• Strong experience with TypeScript, React, Node.js, and backend service development
• 3–5+ years of experience building and maintaining scalable, production-grade systems
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred), Docker, and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with integrating AI/ML or LLM APIs into user-facing applications
• Proven ability to ship high-quality, user-tested software in a fast-paced environment
• Strong backend fundamentals—performance optimization, data modeling, observability
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• A product mindset and passion for crafting thoughtful, high-impact user experiences

Nice to have:

• Experience in 0-to-1 product development or AI-driven feature iteration
• Experience with infrastructure and application scaling, including performance tuning, caching strategies, and distributed systems
• Exposure to prompt engineering or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Comfort working with product analytics and experimentation frameworks
• Familiarity with document-centric workflows (e.g., PDF, DOCX parsing)
• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus) and debugging in production environments

Benefits:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k
• Wellness reimbursement
• Take what you need vacation policy
• Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers

Base Salary Range:

• Senior Software Engineer: $160,000 - $175,000
• Staff Software Engineer: $190,000 - $210,000

The base salary range represents the minimum and maximum of the salary range for this position based at our San Francisco headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate. Our base salary is just one component of Ironclad’s competitive total rewards package, which also includes equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure), competitive health and wellness benefits, and a commitment to career growth and development.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Compensation Range: $190K - $240K