Senior AI Agent Platform Engineer

Epiq Systems, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

Epiq AI Labs at Epiq Systems, Inc. is building the next‑generation AI platform for corporate legal departments and global law firms. The team operates with startup speed, high autonomy, and strong safety standards, shipping intelligent agents and orchestration runtimes in production.

You will own core systems end‑to‑end, including orchestration, retrieval, and evaluation infrastructure, while maintaining traceability, confidentiality, and tenant isolation in legal workflows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software‑engineering experience with backend, distributed, or AI systems.
• Experience delivering and operating LLM-powered apps in production at scale.
• Experience building tool‑using agent workflows or retrieval‑augmented generation systems.
• Strong production‑level proficiency in Python.
• Understanding of ML lifecycle, model/data versioning, deployment and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design the agentic platform: orchestration of single agents and parallel sub‑agents, durable state and memory, tool integration, observability.
• Build safety layer agents: tool registration, sandboxing, guardrails, output validation, defenses against prompt injection.
• Develop agent workflows with multi‑step reasoning, tool use, human‑in‑the‑loop checkpoints, and recovery from partial failure.
• Evolve in‑house model services for classification, extraction, embeddings, and integrate with frontier models.
• Establish LLMOps practices: routing, fallbacks, latency and cost budgets, versioning, caching, monitoring.
• Collaborate with product, research, and security stakeholders; produce design docs and test plans.

Skills

Python

LLM/AI systems

Backend distributed systems

Observability tooling

Security/compliance

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Epiq AI Labs at Epiq Systems, Inc. is building the next‑generation AI platform for corporate legal departments and global law firms. The team operates with startup speed, high autonomy, and strong safety standards, shipping intelligent agents and orchestration runtimes in production.

You will own core systems end‑to‑end, including orchestration, retrieval, and evaluation infrastructure, while maintaining traceability, confidentiality, and tenant isolation in legal workflows.