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Principal Software Engineer - Contract AI

Job in Washington, District of Columbia, 20022, USA
Listing for: McKinsey & Company
Contract position
Listed on 2026-08-09
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software)
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 214000 - 218000 USD Yearly USD 214000.00 218000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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Do you want to do work that matters, alongside supportive leaders who will help you grow faster than you ever thought possible? Are you a creative problem-solver who is energized by challenges?
You've come to the right place.

YOUR IMPACT

You will own extraction and evaluation architecture, design and evolve the multi-stage AI pipeline that converts unstructured contracts and invoices into structured compliance findings
-covering document ingestion, vision LLM extraction, clause parsing, normalization, and deterministic evaluation logic.

You are the deepest individual technical contributor on the Contract AI platform. You own the hardest engineering problems - extraction model architecture, compliance evaluation logic, pipeline performance at scale, and the agentic reasoning layer. You are not primarily a manager, but you raise the ceiling of what the team can build: through architecture, code, code review, and mentoring.

You’ll lead GenAI and agentic engineering, build, tune, and product ionize agentic workflows for contract analysis using Lang Graph, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent frameworks. You will advance the platform’s reasoning capabilities beyond single-shot prompting into multi-step, tool-using AI agents.

You will set the technical bar for the team: own code quality, architecture reviews, and technical standards. You will be the go-to resource for the hardest debugging, design, and performance challenges.

You’ll also mentor Senior Software Engineers, drive accuracy at scale, own evaluation accuracy metrics across compliance case categories; design validation harnesses, prompt refinement workflows, and confidence scoring frameworks.

You will contribute across the stack, write Python and C# in production; contribute to the React/Type Script analytics dashboard when needed; and own end-to-end delivery of major platform features from design through deployment.

You’ll accelerate client deployments, build reusable extractor and evaluator templates that reduce Proof-of-Value configuration time; document architectural patterns for delivery engineers to apply consistently across client environments. You’ll stay at the frontier: continuously evaluate emerging agentic frameworks, multi-modal models, and document-understanding approaches; propose and prototype high-value capabilities before they appear in competitors’ roadmaps.

YOUR GROWTH

Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues-at all levels-will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you’ll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.

When you join us, you will have:

  • Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
  • A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
  • Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues…
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