Sr. AI Developer

Goodwin; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

Goodwin is seeking a product-minded Senior AI Engineer to build and scale production-grade AI agents and agentic systems. This hands-on role owns problems end to end, from discovery and design through deployment, delivering fast, reliable solutions with measurable business impact.

You will collaborate with engineers, architects, and stakeholders to ship full-stack features in C#/.NET, Python, and TypeScript/React, and operate on Azure AI Foundry and related services.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3–5 years building and shipping software to production.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including data structures, system design, and testing.
• Experience with CI/CD, observability, and incident response; Azure AI Foundry or related Azure AI services is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own projects from zero to one, including framing, design, implementation, deployment, and iteration for AI/agent systems.
• Embed with business/legal teams to map workflows and optimize with AI-backed solutions.
• Design agent architectures spanning tools, memory, retrieval, and guardrails, using LLM orchestration frameworks; write testable, versioned prompts.
• Build full-stack features in C#/.NET, Python, and TypeScript/React with clean APIs and reliable code.
• Ship on Azure (Azure AI Foundry) and related services; manage model selection and deployment pipelines.
• Define success metrics, build evals, reduce hallucinations, and drive reliability over time.
• Perform comprehensive testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of AI agents to ensure quality.
• Collaborate with security and compliance on data handling and access controls.
• Document agent designs and operational guidelines for maintainability.
• Apply a disciplined SDLC across design, development, testing, deployment; raise the bar for code quality.

Skills

Python

C#

TypeScript/React

CI/CD

System design

LLM/agent tech

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

LangChain/LangGraph

LlamaIndex

Microsoft Agent Framework

Job description

Join Goodwin’s Global Operations Team, and make a real impact on a global scale. At Goodwin, we work with some of the world’s most successful and innovative investors, entrepreneurs and disruptors in the life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology and financial industries, and where they converge. As part of the Global Operations Team – all business professionals at the firm – you’ll collaborate with colleagues from varied backgrounds and experiences, fostering an environment where cross-functional learning, networking, and collaboration are at the core of what we do.

Here, we’re not just supporting a law firm; we’re partnering with attorneys and clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions in high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution, world-class regulatory compliance and advisory services, and complex transactions. Our commitment to integrity, ingenuity, agility, and ambition drives us, and we’re proud to have been recognised as the “Best Business Team” by The American Lawyer.

This is your opportunity to grow professionally in a dynamic, global environment, surrounded by forward-thinking peers.

We’re seeking a product‑minded Senior AI Engineer to build and scale production‑grade AI agents and agentic systems across Goodwin. This hands‑on, builder‑first role owns problems end to end, from workflow discovery and system design through deployment, adoption, and continuous optimization, shipping full‑stack solutions that are fast, reliable, and deliver measurable business impact. Above all, this is a role for a strong software engineer: we expect deep engineering fundamentals, sound system design, and a track record of shipping reliable production‑grade software. This is a senior individual‑contributor role for someone with the agency to take an ambiguous problem and drive it to a shipped, reliable system with minimal oversight. The position reports to the Director of Engineering and works closely with cross‑functional teams, including other developers, architects, and business stakeholders.

What You Will Do:

• Own projects from zero to one as an engineer, covering problem framing, system design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration, with AI and agentic systems as the current focus.
• Embed with business/legal teams to map workflows, identify high‑leverage bottlenecks, and streamline them using AI backed solutions
• Design agent architectures spanning tools and functions, memory and state, retrieval, and guardrails, using common LLM orchestration frameworks (such as LangChain/LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework, or LlamaIndex), and write prompts that are testable and versioned.
• Build full‑stack features, primarily in C#/.NET, Python, and TypeScript/React, writing well‑structured services, clean APIs, and tested code that make agents usable, safe, and fast for internal users. Adjacent language and framework experience transfers.
• Ship on Azure, today largely via Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and adjacent Azure AI services, owning model selection, evaluation, deployment pipelines, and production operations. Comparable experience with other major clouds transfers.
• Instrument quality by defining success metrics, building evals and test suites, reducing hallucinations and failure modes, and driving reliability over time.
• Perform comprehensive testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of AI agents to ensure quality and minimize defects.
• Partner with security and compliance to ensure responsible data handling, least‑privilege access, and auditability.
• Document agent designs, architectures, and operational guidelines to ensure maintainability and knowledge transfer.
• Drive delivery with a disciplined engineering approach, applying a structured SDLC across design, development, testing, and deployment, and raise the bar for code quality, pragmatic architecture, and reliable operations.

Who You Are:

• Minimum 3–5 years building and shipping software to production; Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, system design, and testing, with full‑stack coding ability in languages such as Python, C#, and modern TypeScript/React; consistently produces maintainable code, tests, and high‑quality PRs.
• Experience running software in production, from CI/CD and observability to incident response, and applying that to deploying and operating LLM/agent solutions. Experience with Azure AI Foundry or adjacent Azure AI services is a plus, but comparable cloud/AI platform experience is welcome.
• Comfort with ambiguity, able to translate loosely defined problems into clear specs, milestones, and working systems.
• High ownership and a bias to action, focused on shipping, measuring impact, and iterating quickly over polishing demos.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• High agency and a strong service orientation, able to run with loosely defined problems independently, manage competing priorities, and build effective working relationships with attorneys, staff, and technical partners across the firm.
• This position follows a hybrid work model and requires employees to work onsite in the office four days per week, collaborating closely with team members and stakeholders

What Would Set You Apart:

• Experience with RAG over internal documents (chunking, indexing, retrieval tuning) and evaluation of retrieval quality.
• Experience working autonomously in a culture that is builder minded and focused on quick delivery
• Experience integrating agents with internal systems via APIs, queues, and workflow tools, and working within a structured SDLC in an enterprise environment.
• Familiarity with security‑focused or regulated environments (PII handling, least‑privilege access, auditability), and setting up automated evals (golden sets, regression tests) for prompts and agents.

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Benefits and More

At Goodwin, you will discover your next career opportunity with a rewarding compensation package and comprehensive benefits, including:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement & Savings Plan
• Emergency back‑up child and adult care
• Paid vacation, sick time off, and holidays
• Professional development and career advancement opportunities
• Employee recognition and reward programs
• Employee wellness and assistance programs
• Employee discounts and perks

This position is eligible for overtime: No

The target salary range for this position varies by location and is commensurate with relevant experience: Boston $137,100 - $205,700 | Los Angeles $147,400 - $221,100 | New York $147,400 - $221,100 | Orange County $147,400 - $221,100 | Philadelphia $134,300 - $201,500 | San Diego $147,400 - $221,100 | San Francisco $157,700 - $236,500 | Santa Monica $147,400 - $221,100