Staff AI Engineer

Who you are

• If you’re looking for a place that values passion, integrity, thinking big, and a desire to learn, we’d love to hear from you!
• Think you’re missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply? We do not believe in the ‘perfect’ candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team
• You have at least 6 years of experience working in ML/AI, and 8+ years overall in software engineering
• You have led significant AI projects, including applied use of LLMs in production settings and experience with NLP/text analysis,
• You have programming skills in at least one scripting language (like Python)
• You’re a constant learner, staying abreast of the latest AI developments from the industry, and how you might apply these to your work
• You're able to collaborate effectively with coworkers on different teams. You can zoom in to discuss technical details with other experienced AI engineers, and can zoom out to explain technical concepts without jargon. You’re willing to share your knowledge and help others learn
• You’ve used Retrieval-based LMs or hybrid approaches with RAG to find answers in very large custom data sets
• You’ve designed approaches for storage and representation of knowledge, and are familiar with vector and graph databases
• You’ve explored multimodal approaches, including image, audio, or video processing
• You’ve built agents to accomplish tasks, including approaches for supervision, backtracking, exception handling, tool use, MCP, etc
• You have previous experience with SaaS and distributed systems

What the job involves

• Everlaw is looking for a Staff AI Engineer to help design and execute our overall technical strategy of applying AI in our product, directly contributing to our company’s vision of being the AI leader in legal discovery and litigation technology
• AI is central to our product – not a bolt-on or afterthought – and represents a step-function advancement of our company’s mission of promoting justice by illuminating truth. We take the hardest problems of applying AI to complex litigation reasoning tasks, at the scale of millions (or 100s of millions) of documents and multimodal inputs
• In this role, you will help to drive the work of a core squad of AI engineers, as well as providing technical guidance to engineers to level up their AI expertise across the broader engineering organization
• You’ll also collaborate with (and learn from) a community of other staff and principal engineers with industry-leading expertise in databases and storage technologies, search, cloud infrastructure, full stack SaaS application design, data science, and performance
• You’ll have regular visibility to, and interactions with, our Chief Technology Officer and other senior leaders at the company
• At Everlaw, engineering is key to our mission. Our company culture is open and vibrant and we’re committed to the professional growth of our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular check-ins with managers regarding career goals
• We want you to feel like part of the team early on! Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals
• We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust that you’ll bring industry experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1
• Lead the design and implementation of Everlaw's technical AI strategy. This includes staying on the cutting edge of the latest frontier models. Including participating in early access programs with all the major AI labs (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) to provide direct feedback on unreleased models and API design, as well as staying abreast of evolving open-source offerings. You’ll devise our overall approach to using AI at trillion-token scale, including:
• Guide the work of engineers across our company in using AI. We’re an organization devoted to constant learning. As one of our staff/principal engineers, you’ll lead by example in staying abreast of industry developments and sharing your learnings with the team – whether in structured ways like feedback on design documents or code reviews, or in less formal ways, like giving occasional tech talks or leading a study group on AI research papers
• Collaborate with other software engineers, security engineers, data scientists, product leads and designers, and other cross-functional teams in the pursuit of our goal of being the AI leader in litigation
• Be on the lookout for new opportunities that AI enables. Help us spot cases where industry or research progression in ML/AI tech will translate to Legal Tech, and influence our engineering and product direction. We’re prepared to act and innovate in bringing the best ideas to market

The application process

• When preparing to engage with Everlaw as a candidate, you may use AI tools for research, polishing application materials, and interview prep. However, any assessments (unless explicitly stated), remote interviews or live interviews must be completed independently without AI support. By submitting your application, you agree to adhere to these rules

Benefits

• Mind & Body - Everlaw cares about the whole person, and that is underscored by our health care plan. Everlaw offers employees and their dependents private health insurance which covers 100% of employee health insurance premiums and 60% of dependent premiums.
• Investing in Your Future - Everlaw believes in building for the long-term – for both our product and our employees. Everlaw enrolls employees in a pension fund upon hire where employees contribute 4% of their salary with a company match of 4%. An additional 1% comes from the UK government in the form of tax relief.
• Family Bonding - Everlaw supports growing families by ensuring employees receive 100% of their salary for up to 10 weeks for family-bonding leave, in addition to 8 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents.
• Everlawlidays and More - When you have a group of highly skilled, highly driven truth-finders, it’s important to build in breaks for recharging. Everlaw offers employees 20 days of paid holiday per calendar year in addition to the eight public holidays in England and Wales. Everlaw also recognises four ‘Everlawlidays’ that are designated days off for the whole company. Upon their fourth work anniversary, employees are upgraded to 23 days of holiday and to 27 days on their seventh work anniversary.
• On-Site Lunches and Snacks - Enjoy delicious daily catered lunches and sample the rotating snack and beverage selections in our London office.
• Never Stop Learning - We are committed to Everlawyers’ professional growth and encourage employees to pursue the right learning and development opportunities for wherever they are in their journey. With an annual Learning & Development stipend of £1,600, Everlawyers can attend conferences, obtain certifications, join classes and meet with career coaches.
• Giving Back - We are committed to supporting our local communities so we build in time for you to give back. In addition to time off for company-sponsored volunteer events, employees get four paid hours per quarter to volunteer at any charity recognised by the HMRC.
• Creating Community - Everlaw is filled with empowered, passionate problem solvers who like to have fun. From team dinners to holiday parties, Everlaw hosts optional company-wide bonding events regularly. Additionally, each department is given a monthly budget for activities and events planned by you and your colleagues. Events have included go-karting, escape rooms, trapeze classes and intramural sports.