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You’ll join a values-driven community where integrity guides decisions, relentless service sets the bar, and wethrive on big challenges together. We invest in your growth with enterprise-wide learning and mobility. We celebrate who you are, and we respect life beyond work with flexibility that’s recognized externally. Enabled by modern platforms and AI, you’ll do the most meaningful work of your career and see your impact at scale.\nJob Description:\nEpiq AI Labs is the innovation and engineering hub behind Epiq’s next-generation AI platform for corporate legal departments and global law firms. Operating with the speed and autonomy of a startup and the resources of a global alternative legal services provider, the team builds intelligent agents, reasoning engines, knowledge systems, and structured workflows for litigation, investigations, compliance, and corporate knowledge work.\nWe are fast, experimental, and product-obsessed, with high autonomy, high trust, and low bureaucracy. We ship to real legal clients and hold a high bar for correctness, and we use AI tools throughout our own development workflow. The team is deeply technical, highly collaborative, and owns its systems end to end - you design it, you build it, you ship it.\nThe Opportunity\nYou will build the agentic systems at the center of Epiq AI Labs’ legal AI platform, including the orchestration runtime used by other teams, the retrieval layer agents reason over, and the evaluation infrastructure used to measure quality. You will own systems from initial design through production operation.\nLegal workflows require a high standard of correctness, traceability, confidentiality, and tenant isolation. You will establish the primitives for orchestration, grounded retrieval, and measurable quality that other engineering teams will build on.\nEssential Job Responsibilities\nDesign the agentic platform: orchestration of single agents and parallel sub-agents, durable state and memory across long-running jobs, MCP-based tool integration, and trace-level observability.\nBuild the safety layer agents run inside: tool registration and permissioning, sandboxing, guardrails and output validation, and defenses against prompt injection from retrieved content.\nBuild agent workflows with multi-step reasoning, tool use, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and recovery from partial failure during long-running execution.\nEvaluate developments in model capabilities, agent-design patterns, and evaluation practices, and translate them into platform architecture.\nDesign retrieval-augmented generation systems with hybrid search over legal corpora and citation grounding to specific sources.\nOwn and evolve the in-house model services behind classification, extraction, and embeddings - including customer-trained custom models with active learning - and integrate them alongside frontier models.\nBuild model-level and end-to-end evaluation datasets, benchmarks, and regression checks for classification, extraction, retrieval, and agent workflows. Work with legal domain experts to turn real workflows, corrections, and failure cases into quality improvements, with automated evaluation in CI and monitoring of quality, latency, and cost in production.\nEstablish LLMOps practices for running models reliably in production: model routing and fallbacks, latency and cost budgets, prompt and context versioning, caching, and quality and reliability monitoring.\nUse AI coding agents throughout development while owning the outcome - the design, specifications and test plans, code review, and verification of correctness, security, and maintainability - and ship major changes behind automated tests and controlled rollouts, with product and legal-domain validation where appropriate.\nBuild scalable backend services and APIs, produce technical design documentation, and partner with product, research, and security stakeholders.\nParticipate in the on-call rotation; diagnose and resolve production incidents affecting model and agent services, and turn findings into durable fixes.\nSenior+ level: Define the foundational architecture for running LLM-powered applications and agents reliably in production across teams, and lead the most complex cross-cutting initiatives, including migrations and addressing architectural debt and systemic risks.\nSenior+ level: Raise the engineering bar by promoting best engineering practice, building reusable platform primitives, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product and engineering leaders on technical direction while staying hands-on and accountable for delivering working software.\nRequired Qualifications\n3+ years of professional software-engineering experience with demonstrated depth in backend, distributed, or AI systems. Hiring level will reflect demonstrated technical depth, scope of ownership, and impact.\nExperience delivering and operating LLM-powered applications in production at scale - beyond prototypes or proofs of concept - including evaluating quality and diagnosing failures.\nExperience building tool-using agent workflows or retrieval-augmented generation systems.\nStrong production-level proficiency in Python.\nWorking understanding of the ML lifecycle, including evaluation data, model and dataset versioning, production deployment, and monitoring model quality, with the ability to collaborate with researchers on reliable model updates.\nExperience designing evaluation datasets and benchmarks and measuring agent task completion, citation correctness, policy adherence, latency, and cost.\nExperience designing services and APIs consumed by other engineering teams.\nExperience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.\nStrong system-design and architecture experience, including production of technical design documents.\nExcellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to work effectively with non-technical domain experts and stakeholders.\nDemonstrated proficiency using AI coding agents in day-to-day development, with sound judgment about where they accelerate work and where they fail.\nSelf-motivated, with high ownership: you solve problems end to end, actively keep up with new developments in AI, and quickly learn and apply new technologies and approaches to your work, including areas you haven't worked in before.\nSenior+ level: Demonstrated technical leadership at the corresponding level, with a track record of delivering complex distributed systems across multiple teams, and deep expertise in Python, distributed-systems fundamentals, and event-driven architectures.\n Senior+ level: Proven ability to lead technical direction across organizational boundaries without direct authority, and to communicate architectural trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience training, fine-tuning, or adapting models to domain-specific tasks, including classification and extraction models and active-learning loops.\nExperience building or contributing to public or domain-specific benchmarks for LLMs or agents.\nExperience with large-scale data pipelines or document-processing systems.\nExperience with multi-tenant SaaS architectures and data-isolation requirements.\nExperience in a startup or scale-up engineering environment.\nExperience in legal technology, enterprise workflow, or knowledge-management systems.\nCandidates who meet most, but not all, of the qualifications above are encouraged to apply.\n# LI-KS1 #1100 Epiq eDiscovery Solutions, Inc.\nTechnology Stack\nPython · LLM APIs and agent frameworks (Anthropic via Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, in-house models) · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · Qdrant · Solr · PostgreSQL · RabbitMQ · Azure · Kubernetes · Docker · Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry\nThe Compensation range for this role is $180,000 -$260,000 USD annually and may be eligible for an annual bonus.\nIn compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.\nMust be authorized to work in the United States for any employer.\nYour specific salary will be determined based on several factors:\nLocation-based market rate for the role\n\nYour abilities in relation to the job specification\n\nPerformance during screening and interview\n\nPay parity with the wider team in the considered location\n\nFurther details about the package will be provided during the initial screening call with the Talent Acquisition Team.\nClick here to learn about Epiq's Benefits.\nEpiq Leadership Compass\nFosters Relationships & Collaboration\nBuilds trust and alignment through open communication, shared goals, and strong partnerships to drive collective success.\nBuild trust-based partnerships\n\nNurture long-term relationships\n\nRemove collaboration barriers\n\nCelebrate cross-team success\n\nEngages & Influences\nInspires action and alignment through clear communication, purposeful influence, and a compelling vision.\nUse storytelling to build buy-in\n\nAlign communication with organizational goals\n\nGuild alignment through strong engagement\n\nMaximizes Performance\nSets and reinforces performance standards that drive results, ensure accountability, and align with Epiq’s goals.\nUse data to identify improvement opportunities\n\nMake informed decisions\n\nAlign team goals with boarder strategy\n\nEmpower teams to manage their own goals\n\nTranslate vision into clear priorities\n\nPrepare for disruptions with strong change management\n\nAchieves Operational Success\nDrives continuous improvement and operational excellence through smart processes, data insights, and quality 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Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. In addition Epiq will take affirmative action for minorities, women, covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. 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