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Senior / Staff Software Engineer

Ivo

Ivo

Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 130k-485k / year
Posted on Apr 3, 2026

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Engineering at Ivo

Engineers at Ivo are inventors. Ivo was first-to-market with:

  • An AI agent that lives in MS word and edits the document for you [2023]
  • Ditching imprecise embeddings models in favor of agentic RAG [2023]
  • Large-scale LLM-based legal fact extraction [2024]
  • A legal assistant that can search large contract databases, without sacrificing accuracy [2024]
  • Clustering legal documents descended from the same family [2025]
  • Automatic deviation analysis to locate buried risk in huge contract databases [2025]
  • Merging contracts with their amendments to make a time series of “composite” contracts (a customer actually cried when we showed her this) [2025]

About the Role

Engineers at Ivo design, create and deploy generative AI products.

You’ll work across the stack on:

  • Developing full stack generative AI functionality
  • Shipping high performance UI code and backend systems that process and analyze millions of contracts reliably
  • Designing pipelines that orchestrate LLMs, data extraction, and clustering algorithms at scale
  • Collaborating with designers, lawyers and other engineers to re-imagine how lawyers work in the AI age

Responsibilities

  • Developing full stack generative AI functionality
  • Shipping high performance UI code and backend systems that process and analyze millions of contracts reliably
  • Designing pipelines that orchestrate LLMs, data extraction, and clustering algorithms at scale
  • Collaborating with designers, lawyers and other engineers to re-imagine how lawyers work in the AI age

Qualifications

Every major business has an in-house legal team, and all of those lawyers are overworked. 80 hour weeks, tight deadlines and contract-reading death marches are the industry norm. Up until recently, there wasn’t anything technology could do to help this situation.

Required Skills

  • You love writing code, but you love having impact more: We’re a team of engineers at heart, but our #1 goal is building the best possible product. That means making pragmatic choices and looking for 80/20 solutions.
  • Would describe yourself as being relentlessly resourceful.
  • You have a strong internal sense of urgency. You have a bias towards doing things *today*, rather than tomorrow.
  • Experience working in a startup environment is preferred but not required.
  • Are excited about the adventure of building a company!

Preferred Skills

Experience working in a startup environment is preferred but not required.

Pay range and compensation package

The USD salary range for this role is $130K-$485K. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We’re building an AI-native platform to automate legal drudgery. People love our software - despite high competition, we have the highest trial win rate on the market (85%). We’re genuinely improving people’s lives, and we’re only just getting started.