--- title: 'Software Engineer - Orchestration at DeepJudge' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-orchestration-deepjudge-zurich-cmppc7vzx26r' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-02' --- # Software Engineer - Orchestration at DeepJudge - **Company:** DeepJudge - **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/deepjudge/52c971e9-4399-413e-a5be-a348f9e37948 ## Job description About us: Founded by former Google search engineers with PhDs in AI from ETH Zurich, DeepJudge helps legal teams unlock and apply the knowledge inside their organizations through world-class enterprise search and AI infrastructure – enabling them to automate workflows, build knowledge-powered applications, and turn institutional knowledge into a lasting advantage. Every organization can license the same AI models, but no two organizations share the same institutional knowledge. Decades of experience, work product, and precedent are often fragmented across systems, underused, and inaccessible. DeepJudge makes this expertise instantly available and actionable – helping legal teams find the right information faster, surface relevant knowledge, and apply it where it matters most. Our platform is trusted by many of the world’s leading law firms and legal teams, including Holland & Knight, Gunderson Dettmer, Cozen O’Connor, ArentFox Schiff, CMS Switzerland, Schoenherr, and others. Headquartered in Switzerland with a growing team across North America and Europe, DeepJudge is shaping the future of how professional knowledge is discovered and applied. At DeepJudge, we move with urgency, think rigorously, and work closely with our clients to build products that solve meaningful problems. If you want to help define how AI transforms professional knowledge work, we’d love to hear from you. About the role: We’re hiring engineers for a greenfield project. Fundamental implementation decisions are still open. You’ll help make those decisions, test ideas, and build and operate the resulting systems in production. We’re looking for engineers with experience building stateful backend systems. Experience with storage systems, distributed execution, or data processing infrastructure would be particularly relevant. You should be comfortable investigating unfamiliar problems, questioning assumptions, and making technical decisions with incomplete information. What you’ll do: - Taking end-to-end ownership of core components of our new data platform, from design to running in production - Write reliable, production-grade software and help set high engineering standards for a growing system You're a great fit if you: - Have strong fundamentals and can think from first principles, turning rough ideas into well-designed abstractions - Have experience shipping and operating backend systems while paying careful attention to correctness, reliability, and performance - Have experience working with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL) and a solid understanding of how they work - Want real ownership and are energised, not slowed down, by ambiguity - (Nice to have) Have experience with data engineering or big data technologies - (Nice to have) Have experience working with or building stateful infrastructure, such as job schedulers, workflow engines, or data processing systems - (Nice to have) Have experience evaluating and optimizing large LLM workloads for quality and cost. - (Nice to have) Have startup experience or open-source contributions What you can look forward to: - Co-Ownership of a core platform - Hard, meaningful engineering problems across orchestration, storage, and distributed systems - Room to grow with the platform – as it scales, so does your scope - Location: Office 5min walking distance from Zurich central station, where we primarily work on site 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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