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Powered by industry-leading AI, data from over 2 million contracts, and a global network of legal professionals, Ontra automates critical private market workflows across the fund lifecycle. Ontra’s solutions transform unstructured data trapped in static documents into actionable intelligence, enabling firms to accelerate contracts, streamline compliance, and automate entity management. Trusted by more than 1,000 global GPs, investment banks, law firms, and advisors - including nine of the top ten PEI-ranked firms worldwide - Ontra helps firms focus on what’s important.\nOur Culture\nOntra is built for people who want real ownership from day one in an environment that’s built to support it. Our customers are sophisticated, and our work reflects that. AI is engrained in how we work, and curiosity about it is part of who we are.\nOntranauts are sharp, genuinely collaborative, and invested in each other's success. They are excellent at what they do and even better to work with. 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The team owns Ontra’s search stack, including semantic and AI-powered search over customer documents and entity data, alongside the AI platform: LLM access and routing across commercial and open-weight models, the evaluation platform, LLM observability, ML service infrastructure, data anonymization, and the agent platform that takes teams from agent idea to a deployed, evaluated agent.\nThis work is core to Ontra’s long-term product strategy.\nThis is a critical leadership role for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical architecture, people leadership, and cross-functional execution.\nThe role is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys being hands-on while leading a team of AI engineers. If you are interested in not only designing solutions but also shaping the engineering culture for a growing team, this role would be a great fit.\nIf you have a proven track record of building platforms other teams depend on, developing high-performance teams and systems, and you thrive in a highly collaborative environment, we’d love to get to know you!\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn the roadmap: Set priorities across search, LLM routing, evaluation, and agent infrastructure. Decide when to re-architect, when to hold a launch, and what to build, adopt, or buy. Treat the platform as a product and track adoption, cost, and latency\n\nLead search and retrieval: Own the search stack behind Ontra’s AI search, including indexing, retrieval, relevance, and search quality\n\nMake AI quality measurable: Drive a shared evaluation approach for search and AI (datasets, LLM-as-judge, CI regression gates, online evals) so teams can ship changes with confidence\n\nOwn security and reliability: Set the bar for tenant isolation, security review, incident response, and multi-provider failover across search and model access\n\nLead agent infrastructure: Shape how Ontra builds, versions, runs, and audits agents and skills on one shared platform\n\nCollaborate: Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, DevOps, and domain experts to rapidly deliver solutions to our customers that also serve our long-term business objectives\n\nInspire: Hire, coach, and grow engineers, and lead the team to embrace a high-performance culture where we all aspire to greatness\n\nWhat You’ll Bring\nExperience: 8+ years of experience as an individual contributor and 3+ years of technical leadership in a high-growth, scaling company managing senior engineers\n\nPlatform track record: A history of building or leading an ML, AI, or developer platform that other teams depend on, with clear adoption and impact\n\nLLM and ML systems depth: Hands-on experience with search and LLM applications in production, such as indexing and relevance (e.g., OpenSearch, vector databases), model gateways, prompt management, evaluation, and tracing (e.g., Arize, MLflow, OpenTelemetry, Datadog)\n\nEngineering foundation: Python, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, SageMaker or similar), CI/CD, and a sound approach to security and data privacy\n\nAgentic systems (preferred): Experience with agent frameworks and runtimes, tool use and MCP, workflow orchestration, and isolation of agent execution\n\nJudgment: Ability to separate durable foundations from hype and make build-vs-buy calls with evidence as the model landscape shifts\n\nSoft skills: Great communication skills, an empathetic approach to teamwork, and the ability to prioritize tasks in a high-performance development environment\n\nHiring Locations\nWe currently hire exclusively in the locations listed below. Select jobs may have more specific location requirements due to business needs.\nUnited States\nArizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington\nAPAC\nHong Kong\nEMEA\nUnited Kingdom\nBenefits Snapshot\nTwice yearly team offsites for in-person collaboration\n\nPaid flexible time off policy\n\nPaid parental leave and benefits\n\nEmployer-supported retirement contributions, varying by country\n\nMonthly phone and internet reimbursement\n\nCompany-sponsored learning and development resources, department budgets for professional development, and a robust onboarding program\n\nVarious options for medical, dental, and vision insurance\n\nTravel\nOccasional travel is required for Ontra employees, including typically at least twice per year to attend team and larger group off-sites for in-person collaboration. For some roles, additional travel may be required based on the requirements of the role and business need.\nInclusivity\nOntra is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Ontra will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact .\nPersonnel Privacy Notice: View here.\nNote on Employment Verification: All employees hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in their particular location.\nNote to External Agencies: We are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/CVs from recruitment agencies. 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