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Our AI-powered, cloud platform, RelativityOne, transforms massive volumes of complex information into actionable insights for litigation, investigations, regulatory inquiries, data breach responses, and other high-stakes legal work where accuracy and trust are crucial.\nThe world’s largest law firms, corporations, and government agencies rely on Relativity’s legal AI software to securely surface and manage the most relevant and impactful information in their matters. Beyond our commercial impact, we are committed to expanding access to technology and supporting pro bono legal work.\nWHAT WE DO\nGavel is the Microsoft Word-native agentic surface where lawyers perform real-time, evidence-based document editing and drafting. 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Use them to guide decisions and instrument production to measure acceptance, latency, and cost per agent. \nContribute to shared infrastructure, including the harness, context and retrieval pipeline, model routing, and observability stack. \nPractice a modern software development lifecycle through small, frequent commits, feature-flagged production deployments, fast rollbacks, and daily use of agentic engineering tools. \nDebug non-deterministic failures, retrieval misses, tool-call errors, and model regressions. \nParticipate in design reviews, write clear technical documentation, review code for other engineers, and mentor Advanced engineers. \nWork directly with product, design, and, at times, customers to understand what good work product means for a given legal task. \nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\nRequired\n5+ years of experience building production software in service-oriented, continuously deployed teams, including experience shipping LLM-powered features to real users through a launched project, not only experiments. \nDirect experience building full-stack web applications and agentic applications, including API usage across providers, function calling and structured outputs, prompt and context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation fundamentals. \nHands-on cloud service development experience with AWS, Azure, or an equivalent platform, including containers, CI/CD, and production debugging, with a willingness to develop deep expertise. \nFluency in TypeScript or Python and the ability to work across a React frontend, Node or Python services, and PostgreSQL. \nExperience writing and maintaining tests that catch regressions. \nStrong engineering fundamentals in API design, data modeling, concurrency, performance, and reliability. \nGood written and spoken English, with the ability to explain technical decisions succinctly to non-engineers. \nA strong commitment to simplicity, demonstrated through open-source work, side projects, or past professional work. \nWHY WE COULD BE A GREAT FIT\nImpactful Mission\nBuild systems that help customers organize data, discover the truth, and act on it in high-stakes legal matters. \nEngineering at Scale\nWork on distributed, cloud-native systems that process large volumes of data. \nCutting-Edge Technology\nBuild with AI, cloud platforms, and scalable architectures shaping legal tech. \nGrowth and Ownership\nGain experience owning systems end-to-end across cloud and distributed environments. \nCollaborative Culture\nWork in a team focused on knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. \nInclusive Environment\nDiverse perspectives create stronger teams and better outcomes. \nCompensation and Benefits\nCompetitive salary, benefits, DTO, parental leave, and equity program. \nRelativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.\nThis position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.\nThe expected salary range for this role is betweenfollowing values:\n$126,000 and $190,000The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. 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