# Staff/Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Search at Ironclad

- Company: Ironclad
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: http://www.ironcladapp.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $188K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-05
- Apply by: 2026-11-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ironcladhq/4be2d35a-9aa0-415c-ba13-30da080158ad?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ironclad-staff-senior-staff-software-engineer-agentic-search/

## 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

Tags: Engineering, Product & Design

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