Software Engineer, Applied AI

About Norm Ai

Norm Ai, the agentic law company, serves clients with a combined $30 trillion in assets under management. Norm Ai pioneered Legal Engineering, which enables lawyers to build and oversee domain-specific AI agents using its proprietary suite of no-code software tools. This technology is used by many of the world's largest and most significant institutions. Norm Ai also powers Norm Law, LLP, an AI-native law firm that advises leading institutions in areas such as private funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate, registered funds, and financial regulation.

AI Fluency

AI Fluency: Norm Ai expects all team members to be fluent in AI. Successful candidates actively use AI in their daily work to support thinking, creation, and problem-solving. They use AI to improve the quality and speed of their work and to continually refine how work gets done end-to-end. Candidates should be prepared to demonstrate and discuss their AI usage throughout the interview process, including concrete examples of tools, workflows, and outcomes. Practical, hands-on experience is preferred over theoretical knowledge.

The Role

As an Applied AI Engineer at Norm Ai, you will design, build, and iterate on enterprise-grade AI agents for end-to-end completion of high-stakes legal workflows. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on shipping reliable, scalable AI-driven functionality into a live enterprise platform. You will work closely with our software engineering, legal engineering, and product teams to bridge disciplines and expand the coverage and capabilities of our automation platform.

• Build and integrate LLM-backed workflows, including prompt systems, retrieval, memory, evaluation, and feedback loops.
• Develop new AI workflows and systems that make cutting-edge AI available across our platform.
• Regularly contribute performant, high-quality code to our production codebase, conforming to the high standards of our engineering team.
• Oversee data collection, experimentation, and data analysis to continuously improve the platform, working closely with domain experts.
• Build comprehensive benchmarks and evaluation suites to measure AI agent performance and guide future improvements to the platform.
• Architect the system of underlying prompts that power our AI agents, engineering effective context structures and automated pipelines for prompt optimization.
• Enable continuous learning in our AI agents through memory, feedback, and client-specific preferences.
• Develop a legal and compliance domain expertise to assist with all of the above.

Skills & Experience

• Core: 4+ years of experience as a software engineer, applied AI engineer, ML engineer, or data scientist
• Strong programming skills in Python, proficiency in Docker and data storage technologies such as Postgres and Redis
• Experience working with production systems, including debugging, monitoring, and iterating on live software
• Willingness to work with frontend technologies (Typescript, React, etc.) to bridge the gap between research ideas and the productization of new initiatives
• Experience in AI/ML infrastructure and tooling
• Experience integrating AI or ML components into real-world systems (LLMs, classical ML, or hybrid approaches)
• Interest in becoming a legal and compliance domain expert and working closely with professionals in the field
• Strong reading, writing, and quantitative skills, as well as a data-driven approach to problem solving

Pluses

• Familiarity with and eagerness to apply the latest AI research
• Experience applying traditional ML systems and processes in the context of state-of-the-art LLMs
• Experience deriving insights from PDFs and other unstructured or semi-structured data types
• Experience with context engineering and memory in the context of AI agents
• Experience modeling uncertainty in ML systems

Compensation & Benefits

Senior Engineer: $190,000 - $250,000 per year + equity
Staff Engineer: $240,000 - $280,000 per year + equity

The range displayed in this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salary for this position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including job-related skills (as uncovered during the interview process), experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed here reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity or benefits. We offer a competitive salary along with equity compensation. Our comprehensive benefits package includes a 401(k) plan with an employer match. Employees enjoy top-tier insurance coverage, encompassing health, dental, hospital, accident, and vision plans. For candidates needing to relocate to NYC, we provide relocation reimbursement.