Design and deploy any type of contract in minutes. Instantly surface insights from legal agreements; manage risk. Get a custom demo. Backed by Accel, Sequoia and Y Combinator.
About the role
Ironclad's Intelligence Platform team owns Agent Assistant, Conversational Search, and Content Understanding — the systems that help customers and AI agents understand, find, and act on the right contract information. These are the flagship AI capabilities of our product, built and operated by a combined team of ML and ML infrastructure engineers. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years building production systems, with a substantial portion in search, information retrieval, content understanding, or recommendation systems at meaningful scale
- Demonstrated depth in one of: learned/hybrid retrieval (lexical + vector + reranking), query understanding/NLU pipelines, or production LLM agent systems — ideally more than one
- Experience with search frameworks (Elasticsearch or equivalent — Solr, Vespa, OpenSearch, embedding search) in production, including relevance tuning and reranking
- Fluency with modern LLM APIs and multi-provider orchestration (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) — reasoning about token budgets, provider-specific tool-calling semantics, and prompt-caching trade-offs
- Experience building eval-driven workflows — offline benchmarks, regression detection, structured A/B comparison — as opposed to shipping and hoping
- Strong autonomy, ownership, and technical leadership across teams, including mentoring senior engineers and driving architectural decisions
More about this role
Build AI contracting at enterprise scale. Ship it fast.
Ironclad is building AI on one of the most consequential datasets in enterprise software: over 2 billion contracts across thousands of the world's largest organizations. Contracts run every dollar, deal, and business relationship on the planet, and the AI transformation of this space is still largely uncharted. Engineers here are building agentic solutions to problems that haven't been solved yet, in a category that's still being defined. The feedback loop is short, the data is rich, and the people closest to the work are the ones deciding what gets built next. That ability to deliver impact quickly is why the the companies at the forefront of AI choose Ironclad to manage their contracts.
We’re consistently recognized as a leader in the industry: a Leader in the Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Lifecycle Management, a Fortune Great Place to Work, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Workplaces. Ironclad has also been named to Forbes’ AI 50 and Business Insider’s list of Companies to Bet Your Career On. We’re backed by leading investors including Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, BOND, and Franklin...
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