Software Engineer, AI Engineer (Applied​/Software), Software Architect

## Staff Software Engineer Apply:
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United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota:
United States of America, Frisco, Texas:
United States of America, Ann Arbor, Michigan:
Full time:
Posted Today:
End Date:
December 25, 2026 (30+ days left to apply):
JREQ
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Job Description We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer AI (Staff Engineer AI) to join the CoCounsel team. We are building the next generation of AI agentic products for legal professionals. The team takes early Labs concepts and turns them into scalable, production-ready features.  You'll also help drive our transition to an AI-native engineering organization where AI accelerates development and engineers provide technical leadership, architecture, and judgment.

As a Lead Software Engineer AI (Staff Engineer), you will be responsible technical direction and delivery of our market leading Litigation Drafting products in CoCounsel Legal. You will be providing technical leadership for a team of talented front and back end engineers to deliver  are looking for Leaders with a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment who will drive the delivery of timely solutions.  

You are empowered to try new approaches and learn new technologies. You will have agency to contribute innovative ideas, create solutions, and will be accountable for end-to-end deliveries.  
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* Key Responsibilities:

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* ** Build and architect AI Agentic driven systems** –You will be working with the Engineering Manager to facilitate our full stack team in delivering ground breaking Agentic Legal software.  + Leading Technical strategy, experimentation, testing, rollout practices and operational excellence  + Designing and building backend services using Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL to support real-time AI agentic interactions, with direct contribution to AI-powered capabilities such as agentic workflows, LLM orchestration, and content pipelines.  

+ Defining service boundaries, system interfaces, and scalable design patterns that form the architectural foundation of our AI platform.  + Supporting the front-end engineers to  deliver of  a complex Agentic UI which uses SSE and AG-UI along with Claude Agent SDK and Agent Core at run time.
* ** Drive innovation and technical strategy** – Lead evaluation and adoption of cutting-edge AI techniques; oversee proof-of-concept work and technical feasibility for new AI-driven features; stay current with AI research and translate insights into technical roadmaps.
* ** Provide senior technical leadership** – Lead architecture decisions and translate business requirements into scalable technical specifications; mentor senior and junior software engineers
* ** Ensure quality, security, and operational excellence** – Design and implement testing, monitoring, and observability for AI systems at scale; lead compliance with ethical AI principles, security standards, and regulatory requirements.
* ** Cross-Functional Influence:
** Influencing and partnering closely with our Labs team, product managers, and designers to take early AI agent concepts and turn them into scalable, production-ready features for our products. Working closely with other engineering leaders to ensure consistency with other teams.
* ** Productionize AI Capabilities:
** Integrate with modern LLM providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic) and implement reliable orchestration, routing, error handling, guardrails, telemetry, and deep observability for performance and reliability. Strengthen CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops automation to support fast, stable, cloud‐native development workflows.  
** Required Qualifications**
* ** Technical

Experience:

** 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in technical leadership roles and 3+…