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# Staff AI Engineer at Everlaw

- **Company:** Everlaw
- **Location:** Oakland California, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-01-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/everlaw/jobs/4648836006

## Job description

Everlaw is looking for a Staff AI Engineer to help design and execute our overall technical strategy of applying AI in our product, directly contributing to our company’s vision of being the AI leader in legal discovery and litigation technology. AI is central to our product – not a bolt-on or afterthought – and represents a step-function advancement of our company’s mission of promoting justice by illuminating truth. We take the hardest problems of applying AI to complex litigation reasoning tasks, at the scale of millions (or 100s of millions) of documents and multimodal inputs.

In this role, you will help to drive the work of a core squad of AI engineers, as well as providing technical guidance to engineers to level up their AI expertise across the broader engineering organization. You’ll also collaborate with (and learn from) a community of other staff and principal engineers with industry-leading expertise in databases and storage technologies, search, cloud infrastructure, full stack SaaS application design, data science, and performance. You’ll have regular visibility to, and interactions with, our Chief Technology Officer and other senior leaders at the company.

At Everlaw, engineering is key to our mission. Our company culture is open and vibrant and we’re committed to the professional growth of our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular check-ins with managers regarding career goals. If you’re looking for a place that values passion, integrity, thinking big, and a desire to learn, we’d love to hear from you! Think you’re missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply? We do not believe in the ‘perfect’ candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team.

This is a full-time, exempt position located onsite (3 days/week in office) in Oakland, California.

Getting started

- We want you to feel like part of the team early on! Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals.
- We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust that you’ll bring industry experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1.

In your role, you'll...

- Lead the design and implementation of Everlaw's technical AI strategy. This includes staying on the cutting edge of the latest frontier models. Including participating in early access programs with all the major AI labs (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) to provide direct feedback on unreleased models and API design, as well as staying abreast of evolving open-source offerings. You’ll devise our overall approach to using AI at trillion-token scale, including:
- Guide the work of engineers across our company in using AI. We’re an organization devoted to constant learning. As one of our staff engineers, you’ll lead by example in staying abreast of industry developments and sharing your learnings with the team – whether in structured ways like feedback on design documents or code reviews, or in less formal ways, like giving occasional tech talks or leading a study group on AI research papers.
- Collaborate with other software engineers, security engineers, data scientists, product leads and designers, and other cross-functional teams in the pursuit of our goal of being the AI leader in litigation.
- Be on the lookout for new opportunities that AI enables. Help us spot cases where industry or research progression in ML/AI tech will translate to Legal Tech, and influence our engineering and product direction. We’re prepared to act and innovate in bringing the best ideas to market.

## About you

- You have at least 6 years of experience working in ML/AI, and 8+ years overall in software engineering
- You have led significant AI projects, including applied use of LLMs in production settings and experience with NLP/text analysis,
- You have programming skills in at least one scripting language (like Python).
- You’re a constant learner, staying abreast of the latest AI developments from the industry, and how you might apply these to your work
- You're able to collaborate effectively with coworkers on different teams. You can zoom in to discuss technical details with other experienced AI engineers, and can zoom out to explain technical concepts without jargon. You’re willing to share your knowledge and help others learn.

Pluses

- You’ve used Retrieval-based LMs or hybrid approaches with RAG to find answers in very large custom data sets
- You’ve designed approaches for storage and representation of knowledge, and are familiar with vector and graph databases
- You’ve explored multimodal approaches, including image, audio, or video processingYou’ve built agents to accomplish tasks, including approaches for supervision, backtracking, exception handling, tool use, MCP, etc.
- You have previous experience with SaaS and distributed systems.

## Benefits

- The expected salary range for this role is between $228,000 - $288,000. The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the candidate’s experience and skills. The base pay range is subject to change in the future.
- Equity program
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
- Health, dental, and vision
- Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
- Paid parental leave and approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leave
- Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
- Membership to[Modern Health](https://www.joinmodernhealth.com/) to help employees prioritize mental health and wellness
- Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
- Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
- Find out more about our [Benefits and Perks](https://www.everlaw.com/careers/employee-benefits/)

## Perks

- Work in Downtown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants
- You will get a powerful Linux laptop and be able to customize your desk setup
- Bond over team lunches and out-of-the-box events
- Ranked “[#1 on G2 for Ediscovery Software and Momentum](https://www.everlaw.com/blog/legal-technology/everlaw-ranks-1-g2-ediscovery-software-reports/)” and we offer free eDiscovery resources to benefit the greater societal good with [Everlaw for Good](https://www.everlaw.com/everlaw-for-good/)
- Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choice
- Take advantage of learning and career development opportunities
- Ranked #9 on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2023 for US small and medium companies
- One of [Wealthfront’s 2021 Career Launching Companies](https://blog.wealthfront.com/career-launching-companies-list/#companies-list), and ranked #2 on the “[2022 Bay Area Best Places to Work](https://www.everlaw.com/blog/2022/05/05/2022-bay-area-best-places-to-work/)” list by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal
- One of [Fast Company’s World's Most Innovative Companies for 2022](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/everlaw-named-to-fast-companys-50-most-innovative-companies-for-2022-301497930.html) and proud contributor of free ediscovery resources to benefit the greater good through [“Everlaw for Good”](https://www.everlaw.com/everlaw-for-good/)
- #LI-EJ1
- #LI-Hybrid

[​​About Everlaw](https://www.everlaw.com/company/mission/)

At Everlaw, you'll shape how AI re-wires the legal industry, at a category-leading business built on a mission to illuminate the truth.

Everlaw is an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We respect the gender, gender identity and gender expression of our applicants and employees, and we honor requests for pronouns. It is our policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity, including the [California Equal Pay Act](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=LAB§ionNum=1197.5.).  Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We collect and process the personal information you provided along with your job application in accordance with our [Applicants Privacy Notice and Notice at Collection](https://www.everlaw.com/applicants-privacy-policy/).

When preparing to engage with Everlaw as a candidate, you may use AI tools for research, polishing application materials, and interview prep. However, any assessments (unless explicitly stated), remote interviews or live interviews must be completed independently without AI support. By submitting your application, you agree to adhere to these rules. Here's the link to our [full policy](https://www.everlaw.com/careers/candidate-ai-policy/), and please reach out with any questions!

We use Gem as part of our hiring and/or promotional processes. As part of the evaluation process, we provide Gem with job requirements and candidate-submitted applications. Certain features of the platform may qualify it as an Automated Employment Decision Tool (AEDT) under applicable regulations. For positions in New York City, our use of Gem complies with NYC Local Law 144. We began using Gem in April 2026.

## About Everlaw

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Everlaw provides a cloud-native, AI-powered eDiscovery platform that helps law firms, corporations, and government agencies analyze vast amounts of digital evidence to uncover the truth in litigation and investigations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: Oakland, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: AJ Shankar

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry/Industries**: Legal Technology (eDiscovery), Software Development
- **Target Customers**: Law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies (B2B, Enterprise, Public Sector)
- **Mission Statement**: To build technology that illuminates the truth and transforms the practice of law. The company is deeply committed to promoting justice and fostering equity.

## Products & Services
- **Everlaw Ediscovery Platform**: The core cloud-native SaaS platform that provides end-to-end management of the eDiscovery process, from legal holds and data upload to review, analysis, production, and trial preparation. It is known for its speed (processing 1 million docs per hour) and intuitive design [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/product/).
- **EverlawAI**: A suite of generative AI features integrated into the platform. Key capabilities include:
    - **Coding Suggestions**: Automates first-pass document review by classifying documents based on user criteria with high accuracy [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/product/).
    - **Deep Dive**: Allows users to ask natural language questions across millions of documents to get instant answers with direct citations [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/product/).
    - **Writing Assistant**: Synthesizes evidence into cohesive narratives and drafts to help build case strategy [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/product/).
- **Storybuilder**: A collaborative case preparation tool for building timelines, organizing arguments, and managing depositions [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/product/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Total Funding**: $298.6M in total funding [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/everlaw).
- **Key Metric (Revenue & Funding)**:
    - **Annual Revenue**: $50.0M [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/everlaw).
    - **Notable Funding**: Raised a $202M Series D round in November 2021, led by TPG Growth [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/everlaw).
- **Notable Investors**:
    - CapitalG (led Series C)
    - Menlo Ventures (led Series B)
    - Andreessen Horowitz (led Series A)
    - TPG Growth (led Series D)
- **Notable Partners/Accreditations**: SOC 2 Type 2 certified, FedRAMP Moderate Authorization, GovRAMP Moderate Authorization [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/product/).
- **Growth Signals**: Named to Fast Company's "50 Most Innovative Companies" for 2022 [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/about/). Recognized in over 30 categories on G2. The company has expanded from its Oakland headquarters to offices in London, New York, and Washington D.C. [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/about/). Employee headcount is 455, with a monthly growth rate of +0.9% [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/everlaw).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Advanced AI with a Closed-Loop System**: EverlawAI (including generative AI features like Deep Dive) is a major differentiator, but it is deployed within a secure, closed-loop system that ensures client data is never used to train public models or exposed outside the platform [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/product/). This is critical for law firms with strict confidentiality requirements.
- **Speed and Ease of Use**: The platform is designed for non-technical legal professionals. It offers industry-leading processing speeds (1 million docs/hour) and lightning-fast searches, while maintaining an intuitive, user-friendly interface that lowers the technical barrier for legal teams [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/product/).
- **Government and Security Credentials**: Holding FedRAMP and GovRAMP authorizations provides a massive competitive moat, as it allows the company to serve U.S. federal agencies and state governments, a market with high barriers to entry for competitors [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/product/).
- **End-to-End Platform**: Unlike point solutions, Everlaw offers a complete, cloud-native solution from legal holds to trial presentation, which creates a "sticky" ecosystem and reduces the need for users to switch between multiple tools [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/product/).

## Strategic Focus
- **Continued AI Innovation**: The company is aggressively pushing into generative AI, with a focus on automating repetitive tasks (like first-pass review) and providing strategic insights (via Deep Dive and Writing Assistant). The recent job posting for a "Staff/Principal AI Engineer" underscores this priority [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/careers/).
- **Growth in Public Sector**: Leveraging its FedRAMP and GovRAMP authorizations to deepen its relationship with government agencies and expand its footprint in the public sector.
- **Scalable Platform**: Moving beyond eDiscovery into broader litigation and investigation support, positioning the platform as a central hub for legal work.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees work on software that is used in high-profile cases and everyday trials, directly impacting the pursuit of justice. The company emphasizes a commitment to "truth" and "promoting justice" [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/careers/).
- **Culture & Values**: The company has a strong culture defined by five core values: "Set Our Own Bar," "Egoless Communication and Mutual Respect," "Respect for Users," "Process-Driven Growth," and "Attention to Detail" [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/careers/).
- **Hybrid Work Model**: Everlaw operates a "coordinated hybrid" model, encouraging in-office collaboration on set days while allowing flexibility. They have offices in Oakland, London, New York, and Washington D.C. [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/careers/).
- **Compelling Benefits**:
    - **Health**: 95% of medical, dental, and vision premiums covered for you and 60% for dependents. Includes a Modern Health mental health platform membership [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/careers/).
    - **Time Off**: 17 days of accrued PTO (increasing with tenure), 11 paid holidays, plus four "Everlawlidays" (company-wide days off) [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/careers/).
    - **Family Support**: 100% salary for up to 8 weeks of Pregnancy Disability Leave and 10 weeks for Family Bonding Leave [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/careers/).
    - **Retirement**: 401(k) with up to 4% company match [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/careers/).
    - **Professional Development**: Annual $2,000 Learning & Development stipend, mentoring programs, and regular development check-ins [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/careers/).
    - **Perks**: Daily catered lunches, volunteer time off (4 hours paid/quarter), and company-wide bonding events [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/careers/).
- **Recognition**: Listed as one of Glassdoor's "Best Places to Work" for 2023 and named a "Career-Launching Company" by Wealthfront in 2021 [everlaw.com](https://www.everlaw.com/about/).

## Sources
1. [Everlaw About Page](https://www.everlaw.com/about/)
2. [Everlaw Product Page](https://www.everlaw.com/product/)
3. [Everlaw Careers Page](https://www.everlaw.com/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/everlaw)

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