Senior Staff Engineer - AI-Driven Legal Tech (Remote)

LE0001 Relativity ODA LLC; Illinois; Remote; USD 174,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DTO

Parental leave

Equity program

Job summary

Relativity ODA LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Gavel Exec product to own its agentic architecture and drive the engineering roadmap. The role works across the full stack with the Gavel CTO, shaping how tool interfaces, harness semantics, and evaluation gate releases are implemented.

Remote in the United States, with options in Seattle or Chicago. The position emphasizes leadership in distributed systems, modern AI engineering, and high-velocity delivery, with a competitive

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building production software.
• At least 2 years shipping LLM-based products to real users.
• At least 5 years in a service-oriented, continuously deployed environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the Gavel Exec agent system, including dispatcher and specialist agents, tool interfaces, harness semantics, retries, structured outputs, guardrails, cost and latency budgets.
• Set evaluation strategy by defining quality standards for each agent, building offline evaluation infrastructure and online acceptance-rate instrumentation.
• Lead the full technical roadmap across the stack, including live indexing, hybrid search, and playbook and precedent grounding.
• Drive platform decisions with Relativity, including infrastructure footprint, identity, tenancy, data residency, integration with the broader AI platform and MCP surfaces, and enterprise security requirements.
• Drive a modern software development lifecycle that supports high-quality, high-velocity delivery through best-in-class agentic engineering tools and practices.
• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, pairing, and written technical direction. Mentor Lead and Senior engineers, help define the technical hiring loop, and interview senior candidates.

Skills

Algorithms

Automation

Debugging

Distributed Systems

Performance Tuning

Problem Solving

Project Management

Software Development

System Designs

Technical Leadership

Job description

Relativity ODA LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Gavel Exec product to own its agentic architecture and drive the engineering roadmap. The role works across the full stack with the Gavel CTO, shaping how tool interfaces, harness semantics, and evaluation gate releases are implemented.

Remote in the United States, with options in Seattle or Chicago. The position emphasizes leadership in distributed systems, modern AI engineering, and high-velocity delivery, with a competitive