Founding AI Engineer

Alldus International Consulting Ltd

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 200,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Alldus International Consulting Ltd. is seeking a Founding AI Engineer in San Francisco to design and deploy production-grade LLM systems for a next-generation legal tech platform.

You will transform complex workflows into reliable, agent-driven solutions spanning documents, communications, and structured data. You will build AI agents, orchestrate multi-step tasks, and develop evaluation frameworks to ensure accuracy, reliability and performance in production.

Qualifications

  • At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience, delivering production AI systems.
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript and backend service development.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, AI agents and orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain).
  • Experience building AI evaluation frameworks, benchmarks and performance monitoring.
  • Knowledge of RAG, prompt engineering, context engineering and tool-enabled LLM architectures.
  • Experience with document intelligence, OCR and unstructured data processing.
  • Demonstrated ownership to take complex systems from concept to production.
  • Startup or high-growth engineering experience is highly valued.

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy production-grade LLM systems for document analysis and workflow automation.
  • Design AI agents and orchestration frameworks for multi-step tasks.
  • Create evaluation frameworks to measure accuracy and performance in production.
  • Build scalable pipelines for ingesting and structuring documents, including OCR.
  • Improve model and agent performance via prompt engineering and retrieval optimization.
  • Develop RAG, memory and retrieval systems for large volumes of legal data.
  • Monitor and improve long-running agent workflows and production reliability.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to turn processes into scalable AI workflows.
  • Help shape AI architecture for growth and customer adoption from concept to production.

Skills

TypeScript
LLM engineering
Agent orchestration
OCR data extraction
RAG retrieval
Performance monitoring
Production back-end
Startup experience

Tools

LangChain
Deep Agents
OCR frameworks
Vector stores
Backend services

Job description

Our client, an AI-driven legal tech company, is hiring a Founding AI Engineer to join the team in San Francisco, CA. The successful candidate will design and deploy production-grade LLM systems for a next-generation legal technology platform, while also transforming complex legal workflows into reliable, agent-driven solutions that work seamlessly across documents, communications and structured data.

Responsibilities
  • Build and deploy production-grade LLM systems for document analysis, legal drafting and workflow automation.
  • Design and orchestrate AI agents that execute complex, multi-step tasks using frameworks such as LangChain and Deep Agents.
  • Create comprehensive AI evaluation frameworks to measure accuracy, reliability, regressions and production performance.
  • Build scalable pipelines for ingesting, processing and structuring complex documents, including OCR and unstructured data extraction.
  • Improve model and agent performance through prompt engineering, retrieval optimization, context management and tool integration.
  • Develop RAG, memory and retrieval systems that allow AI agents to reason effectively across large volumes of legal information.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot and improve long-running agent workflows, identifying and resolving reliability issues and production failures.
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to turn complex legal processes into scalable AI-powered workflows and product capabilities.
  • Help shape the wider AI architecture, making practical technical decisions as the platform and customer base grow.
  • Own AI systems throughout their lifecycle, from experimentation and evaluation to production deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement.
Skillset
  • At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience, successfully building and shipping production AI systems.
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript, with a solid background in developing reliable, production-grade backend services.
  • Hands-on experience building with LLMs, AI agents and agent orchestration frameworks, ideally including LangChain or similar technologies.
  • Experience developing AI evaluation and testing frameworks, including benchmarks, test datasets, regression testing and performance monitoring.
  • Strong knowledge of RAG, prompt engineering, context engineering and tool-enabled LLM architectures.
  • Experience with document intelligence, OCR, information extraction and unstructured data processing.
  • Proven ability to diagnose and improve the reliability, accuracy and performance of production AI systems.
  • A high-ownership approach, with the ability to take complex technical systems from initial concept through to production.
  • Experience within an early-stage startup or similarly high-growth engineering environment would be highly valued.
Benefits
  • Salary: $120k - $200k DOE.
  • Equity.
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