Senior Software Engineer (Agentic Search)

Join Ironclad, a leading contract lifecycle management platform, as a Senior AI Software Engineer. You will be part of a new elite Squad Team focused on fast-moving, high-priority AI initiatives across the company. This role offers the opportunity to work across multiple codebases and domains, incubate new AI capabilities, and partner closely with product and engineering leaders. You should be excited about ambiguity, fast context switching, and building real products that deliver customer value quickly.

• Lead the design and delivery of high-priority AI initiatives across Ironclad, from early prototype through production launch.
• Rapidly ramp into new systems, codebases, and problem areas, and drive execution with minimal hand-holding.
• Incubate new product ideas in areas such as contract AI, agentic workflows, intelligent extraction, search, and automation.

• We have multiple roles open, and hiring a range of levels. This is the right role for people who are high-agency builders who combine strong technical depth with product sense, urgency, and excellent judgment
• Strong bias to action, with the ability to balance speed and quality
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, especially in backend systems and distributed systems
• Excitement about iterating quickly, learning from real usage, and improving product quality over time
• Familiarity with modern LLM application patterns such as agentic workflows, retrieval, evals, tool use, and quality/error analysis
• Ability to build and ship production software in fast-paced environments
• Strong product instinct and customer empathy
• Ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly and be productive in codebases you did not originally build
• Comfort using AI coding tools to accelerate development, while maintaining engineering rigor and sound judgment
• Ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional efforts and turning them into concrete outcomes
• You care not just about whether a system works, but whether it solves an important user problem
• High agency and ownership: you see gaps, form a point of view, and drive things forward
• Experience building AI-powered product features, platforms, or internal developer systems
• Excellent collaboration skills and low ego; you work well by influence, not just authority