--- title: 'Platform Engineer at DeepJudge' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/platform-engineer-deepjudge-zurich-7syxhz1xpbah' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Platform Engineer at DeepJudge - **Company:** DeepJudge - **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-31 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/deepjudge/24af6670-00da-47cb-9361-ab3e5fd7ee3a ## Job description About us: DeepJudge is Switzerland’s leading AI and ICT scale-up, transforming how law firms and legal departments access and leverage their knowledge. Founded by former Google search engineers with PhDs in AI from ETH Zurich, and backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors, we are building the intelligence layer that powers the legal industry. Every firm can license the same AI models, but no two firms share the same institutional knowledge. Decades of experience, work product, and precedent are often trapped across systems, underused and inaccessible. DeepJudge makes this expertise instantly available through world-class enterprise search and AI infrastructure, enabling firms to automate workflows, build knowledge-powered applications, and turn experience into a lasting advantage. Our technology is trusted by many of the world’s leading law firms, including Freshfields, Gunderson Dettmer, Holland & Knight, Arent Fox, and Cozen O’Connor. Headquartered in Switzerland with a growing team across North America, we are expanding rapidly and shaping the future of how professional knowledge is discovered and applied. At DeepJudge, we move fast, think rigorously, and care deeply about what we build. We combine cutting-edge research with close collaboration with our clients to deliver solutions that truly make an impact. If you want to be part of a team defining how AI transforms high-stakes knowledge work, this is the place to do it. About the role: We are looking for a platform engineer / developer experience engineer to improve the systems that help our engineering team move quickly and safely. This is a hands-on role spanning build systems, CI, testing infrastructure, dependency and vulnerability management, and internal developer tooling. The engineer will combine operational ownership with deeper system improvement: keeping critical processes reliable while identifying and removing recurring sources of friction. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, excellent debugging instincts, and a genuine interest in building tools and workflows for other engineers. They understand that an internal platform is a product: solutions must be reliable, ergonomic, well documented, and easy to adopt. Candidates do not need prior ownership of every area in the role. We value broad engineering judgment, curiosity, and demonstrated interest in improving developer productivity over narrow specialization. Your responsibilities will include: - Owning and maintaining build systems, CI pipelines, testing infrastructure and internal tooling to keep engineering workflows reliable and efficient - Helping and enabling other engineers by identifying recurring sources of friction and designing and implementing solutions to remove them - Vulnerability and dependency management - Reviewing code and contributing to a high standard of code quality and maintainability You're a great fit if you: - Have 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or Developer Experience Engineer - Are proficient in at least two of the following: build systems, continuous integration, testing, observability, dependency and vulnerability management, release workflows or internal tooling - Are comfortable working with Python tooling and packaging, including dependency management and the broader Python developer ecosystem - Have a genuine interest in building tools and processes that help other engineers move faster - Have strong software engineering fundamentals and excellent debugging instincts - Bring broad engineering judgment and curiosity - (Nice to have) Experience with tooling, packaging, and dependency management in JavaScript, Rust, Go or other language ecosystems - (Nice to have) Experience working with Kubernetes, including deploying services and debugging running workloads What you can look forward to: - Location: Office 5min walking distance from Zurich central station, where we primarily work on site - Collaborative and supportive work environment - Potential for professional growth and advancement within the company Ownership and ability to impact the company, product, and culture At DeepJudge, we believe great teams are built on diverse perspectives and experiences. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can thrive. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If this role excites you, but you feel you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway and tell us why you’d be a great fit. ## About DeepJudge ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: DeepJudge provides a precision AI search and workflow platform that enables legal teams to access and leverage their firm’s entire institutional knowledge instantly. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $10.7M in Seed funding in June 2024) - **Headquarters**: Zürich, Switzerland - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Paulina Grnarova (CEO), Kevin Roth (COO), Yannic Kilcher (CTO), Florian Schmidt ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Legal Technology (LegalTech) / Enterprise AI / Knowledge Management - **Target Customers**: B2B; specifically large and mid-size law firms, corporate legal departments, and in-house legal teams. - **Mission/Purpose**: To empower legal professionals to do extraordinary work by transforming how they access and use their collective knowledge. The company’s tagline is “Know what your firm knows — instantly.” ## Products & Services - **DeepJudge Knowledge Search**: An AI-powered enterprise search engine that indexes and understands data wherever it lives (documents, emails, archives, DMS) without requiring complex implementation or data migration. It provides instant, intelligent search across a firm’s entire knowledge base. - **DeepJudge AI Workflows**: An LLM-agnostic agentic reasoning platform that allows firms to build, deploy, orchestrate, and govern AI agents. It executes complex, multi-step tasks by retrieving data from multiple sources and taking actions, delivering transparency and precision. - **Matter & Client Overview**: A feature that creates an overview and timeline of all events pertaining to documents of a selected matter, client, or folder. - **Multi-Document Chat**: Allows users to ask questions about a client-matter file folder or any set of documents for quick insights and review. - **Negotiation Intelligence**: Enables users to search to uncover whether opposing counsel ever agreed to a point in a past negotiation. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (Private company). - **Key Metric**: Raised **$10.7M** in Seed funding (announced July 3, 2024). Total funding is reported by LinkedIn as **$53.1M** across 6 rounds, though this figure appears to aggregate multiple instruments. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Coatue, Thomas Dübendorfer, and other unnamed investors. Advisors include Viviana Faga (General Partner) and Steve Obenski. Key customers include top global law firms such as **Freshfields** and **Homburger**. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount of **66 employees** (+83.7% year-over-year, adding 36 people). - Operates in 6 countries (Switzerland, USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany). - Customers report **90% faster results** than with existing tools, **+4x ROI** in the first year, and **+85% adoption** in under two months. - Deep integration into firms like Freshfields and Homburger, with over 80% of legal professionals at Homburger using the platform. ## Competitive Advantages - **Founding Team Deep Expertise**: Founded by four Machine Learning PhDs from ETH Zurich and EPFL, with combined experience at Google Brain, Google AI Language, and Microsoft Research. This gives the company a deep technical moat in AI, search, and NLP. - **Legal-Specific Focus**: Unlike general AI platforms, DeepJudge is purpose-built for the legal industry, understanding legal workflows, document structures, and the critical need for compliance, security, and governance. - **No Data Migration Required**: The platform indexes data in place, eliminating the friction and risk of moving sensitive legal data to a new system. - **LLM-Agnostic Architecture**: Allows firms to use the best available LLM models without vendor lock-in, future-proofing their AI strategy. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling Revenue and Sales**: Hiring aggressively for Enterprise Account Directors across the US, UK, and EU/DACH, as well as a Head of Customer Success and Customer Success Managers. - **Product Expansion**: Continued development of AI Workflows and agentic capabilities to automate more complex legal tasks (e.g., diligence, contract review, negotiation intelligence). - **Geographic Expansion**: Growing presence in the US and UK legal markets while maintaining strength in Europe. - **Building the Partner Ecosystem**: Hiring a Technology Partner Manager to build integrations and alliances. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact, Fast-Growing Environment**: The company is scaling rapidly (+83% headcount YoY) and employees are expected to ship code quickly and make a direct impact on mission-critical workflows for top global law firms. - **World-Class Team**: Work alongside former Google Brain and Microsoft Research engineers, legaltech veterans from Thomson Reuters, Casetext, and Agiloft, and a CEO recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. - **Remote & Hybrid Policy**: Headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland, with teams in the USA and Canada. The company supports remote work across multiple countries. - **Culture**: Emphasis on innovation, deep technical excellence, and solving hard problems. The company is described as a “high-performing team at a fast-growing company” where employees are empowered to shape the future of legal AI. - **Open Roles**: Currently hiring for DevOps Engineer, Backend Software Engineer (Indexing & Applications), Applied AI Engineer, Agentic Harness Engineer, Solution Architect, Customer Success Manager, Enterprise Account Directors, Demand Generation Manager, and more. ## Sources 1. [deepjudge.ai - About Us](https://www.deepjudge.ai/about-us) 2. [deepjudge.ai - Homepage](https://www.deepjudge.ai/) 3. [deepjudge.ai - Careers](https://www.deepjudge.ai/careers) 4. [crunchbase.com - DeepJudge Profile](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/deepjudge) 5. [linkedin.com - DeepJudge Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepjudge/) 6. 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