Staff Software Engineer: AI-Driven Agentic Systems (Remote)

Relativity; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DTO

Parental leave

Equity program

Competitive salary

Job summary

Relativity's Gavel Exec team seeks a Staff Software Engineer to own end-to-end architecture of the agent system, including dispatchers, tool interfaces, and guardrails, while guiding the evaluation strategy and release gating.

You will lead the technical roadmap across stack—live indexing, hybrid search, and grounding of playbooks—and collaborate with CTO to drive platform decisions, scale engineering, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of production software experience with recent LLM-based products.
• Proven ownership of an agentic system in production, including multi-step tool use and orchestration across components.
• Strong understanding of modern AI engineering stack: prompt/context engineering, function calling, retrieval, evaluation design, and model routing.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the Gavel Exec agent system, including dispatchers, agent interfaces, harness semantics, retries, guardrails, and latency budgets.
• Define evaluation standards, build offline/online evaluation infra, and use results to gate releases.
• Lead the full technical roadmap across the stack: live indexing, hybrid search, grounding playbooks and precedents.
• Drive platform decisions with Relativity: infra footprint, identity, tenancy, data residency, security, and MCP integration.
• Promote high-quality, high-velocity delivery through best-in-class engineering tools and practices.
• Mentor Lead and Senior engineers; shape technical hiring and onboarding for senior roles.
• Remain hands-on and ship continuously, tackling the hardest, highest-leverage problems.

Skills

Algorithms

Automation

Debugging

Distributed Systems

Performance Tuning

Problem Solving

Project Management

Software Development

System Designs

Technical Leadership

Tools

AWS

Azure

Containers

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Enterprise Identity

Job description

Relativity's Gavel Exec team seeks a Staff Software Engineer to own end-to-end architecture of the agent system, including dispatchers, tool interfaces, and guardrails, while guiding the evaluation strategy and release gating.

You will lead the technical roadmap across stack—live indexing, hybrid search, and grounding of playbooks—and collaborate with CTO to drive platform decisions, scale engineering, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on.