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Ship it fast.\nIronclad is building AI on one of the most consequential datasets in enterprise software: over 2 billion contracts across thousands of the world's largest organizations. Contracts run every dollar, deal, and business relationship on the planet, and the AI transformation of this space is still largely uncharted. Engineers here are building agentic solutions to problems that haven't been solved yet, in a category that's still being defined. The feedback loop is short, the data is rich, and the people closest to the work are the ones deciding what gets built next. That ability to deliver impact quickly is why the the companies at the forefront of AI choose Ironclad to manage their contracts.\nWe’re consistently recognized as a leader in the industry: a Leader in the Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Lifecycle Management, a Fortune Great Place to Work, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Workplaces. Ironclad has also been named to Forbes’ AI 50 and Business Insider’s list of Companies to Bet Your Career On. We’re backed by leading investors including Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, BOND, and Franklin Templeton. For more information, visit www.ironcladapp.com or follow us on LinkedIn.\nThis is a hybrid role. Office attendance is required at least twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for collaboration and connection. There may be additional in-office days for team or company events.\nEngineering @ Ironclad\nAs a Principal Engineer at Ironclad, you'll work cross-functionally to identify business problems and architect, build, and verify solutions. You'll architect and evolve a platform that lets lawyers scale themselves and their businesses 100x more effectively, with AI at the core. At Ironclad, we’ve built a product that brings a two thousand year old profession into the digital age, and you’ll play a pivotal role in driving the foundation forward by building the next wave of AI-powered contract intelligence features and the platform capabilities that support them.\nWe seek an experienced principal engineer with strong coding fundamentals, deep platform architecture experience, and a track record of shipping high quality AI-powered products. We work in a highly collaborative environment, and strive to foster a positive, inclusive culture and offer remote work flexibility. If you’d like to join us on our mission to build the product that legal teams love, let’s talk!\nWhat you'll do:\nCollaborate cross functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to spec, design, architect and build features and systems.\n\nOwn and evolve core platform architecture (service boundaries, data models, multi-tenant scale, reliability) to support AI capabilities safely and efficiently across our product surface area.\n\nPartner with quality engineers to define, build and maintain testing strategy.\n\nLead technical discussions, mentor and provide thoughtful feedback to other engineers on the team.\n\nGrow the team by interviewing and recruiting talented engineers to Ironclad.\n\nWork on a modern stack built upon: TypeScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Java, and Docker containers in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform (experience with these specific technologies not required).\n\nBuild AI solutions and apply AI tools and features (e.g., LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and classification) to power the future of contract intelligence.\n\nDrive end-to-end delivery of AI-powered product experiences, from problem definition and experimentation to reliable, scalable production systems.\n\nWhat we look for:\nAt least 10+ years of software experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems (a formal degree is not required, we are prioritizing industry experience).\n\nExperience operating at a Principal , with a track record of driving technical strategy and architectural evolution across entire organizations.\n\nDemonstrated leadership across teams and a drive towards improving overall technical architecture and achieving company-wide goals.\n\nDeep experience designing and evolving large-scale, distributed SaaS or platform architectures (e.g., multi-tenant systems, event-driven systems, or data platforms).\n\nPassion for software engineering to build and ship great product.\n\nExperience in building AI applications and shipping AI-powered product features to production (ideally including LLM integration, retrieval, experimentation, and measurement).\n\nHands-on experience shipping valuable products to production with real user feedback.\n\nA high bar for quality.\n\nStrong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.\n\nAlignment with Ironclad’s values: drive, intent, integrity, and empathy.\n\nBase Salary Range: $285,000 - $315,000\nThe base salary range represents the minimum and maximum of the salary range for this position based at our San Francisco headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate. Our base salary is just one component of Ironclad’s competitive total rewards package, which also includes equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure), competitive health and wellness benefits, and a commitment to career growth and development.\nUS Full-Time Employee Benefits at Ironclad:\n100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options available\n\nMarket-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave\n\nFamily forming support through Maven for you and your partner\n\nPaid time off - take the time you need, when you need it\n\nMonthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and (if applicable) cell phone use\n\nMental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools\n\nPre-tax commuter benefits (US Employees)\n\n401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match (US Employees)\n\nRegular team events to connect, recharge, and have fun\n\nAnd most importantly: the opportunity to help build the company you want to work at\n\n**UK Employee-specific benefits are included on our UK job postings\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6441,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Company events","Equity","Hybrid work","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Document Management","Digital Signature","Legal AI","Legal Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-05T08:04:42Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":11,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.38,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":177,"expected_fill_days":45,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":315000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ironclad-principal-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ironclad-principal-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T21:19:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":28754,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":7915},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=7915"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fironclad-principal-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fironclad-principal-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fironclad-principal-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ironclad-principal-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fironclad-principal-engineer"}]}