Senior Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 18, 2026.
About the Role
Join a product engineering team building data infrastructure and software for AI-powered legal research. Your work will help make a large collection of U.S. laws and court decisions more accurate, useful, and accessible through products and developer services.
What You'll Do
Build data pipelines that enrich legal documents with relationships and metadata, such as how court decisions relate to one another.
Develop systems that improve the reliability and accuracy of large-scale web scraping.
Optimize and evaluate services for citation extraction and resolution, and for modeling relationships between courts.
Expose data and core capabilities through APIs and other real-time interfaces.
Build benchmarks and evaluation methods using both human-reviewed and synthetic data.
What We're Looking For
At least 2 years of experience as a hands-on software or data engineer, with broad backend skills and senior-level ownership of impactful projects.
Proficiency in Python and SQL, strong engineering fundamentals, and experience owning projects from initial design through deployment.
Experience with data pipelines and basic to intermediate infrastructure or DevOps; familiarity with modern AI tools and interest or experience in statistics, machine learning, or AI.
A completed computer science degree and experience building product-focused software, ideally in a startup or small, high-performing engineering team.
Comfort taking greenfield work from the ground up. Full-stack experience is a bonus.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $170,000 to $240,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in New York, New York, United States.