Production AI Engineer for Legal Systems & Agents

Dexian; Illinois; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexian is embedding AI agents into Legal systems and the infrastructure that runs them. You will own the Legal business line as a one-person engineering team, collaborating with the Center of Excellence to ship agents and MCP integrations. You will hand off mature work to platform and operations teams as it stabilizes.

Your role is to treat AI tools as a core part of your workflow, leveraging hooks, skills, workflows, and automations to ship safely into production.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI agents or automation on production systems.
• Ability to ship end-to-end with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication with non-engineers and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship agents in close partnership with subject matter experts and operators.
• Stand up MCP servers and connectors, moving from pre-production through design review into production.
• Bootstrap skills, integrations, and evaluations on top of the organization's AI platform, including the LLM gateway, shared RAG services, and MCP toolchain.
• Run workshops with teams, teach them to use Claude Code, and translate their workflows into agent skills.
• Hand off mature systems to platform and operations teams once they outgrow the bootstrap phase.
• Feed patterns, anti-patterns, and platform gaps back into the Center of Excellence so the next engineer moves faster.

Skills

Python

Node.js

.NET (C#)

AI platform development

Systems thinking

Tools

Claude Agent SDK

MCP

LLM gateway

RAG services

Database: NoSQL/Document

Job description

Dexian is embedding AI agents into Legal systems and the infrastructure that runs them. You will own the Legal business line as a one-person engineering team, collaborating with the Center of Excellence to ship agents and MCP integrations. You will hand off mature work to platform and operations teams as it stabilizes.

Your role is to treat AI tools as a core part of your workflow, leveraging hooks, skills, workflows, and automations to ship safely into production.