Engineering Manager, AI

LawPay

full-time

Posted on: 9/6/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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About the role

Manage the team while working on the codebase to design and build AI-powered features that delight customers and strengthen the platform.
Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and data scientists to translate business problems into AI-driven solutions.
Design, implement, and integrate AI features into existing 8am products.
Partner with the Data team to ensure the right data is collected, enriched, prepared, and staged for AI consumption and use.
Build and evaluate AI-powered services, from customer-facing prototypes to general availability to all our customers.
Develop tools and infrastructure to support reliable, scalable, and secure AI deployment.
Work with our cloud operations team to deploy AI features, monitor their impact, and continuously improve them.
Deliver on the roadmap of AI features to enhance and expand the 8am suite of products and drive meaningful business and customer outcomes.

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in full stack SaaS application development or backend.
Proven track record of building and deploying production-ready AI services.
Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks, platforms and related tooling.
Strong Python development skills and familiarity with data manipulation and evaluation workflows.
Experience building scalable data infrastructure and integrating models into broader SaaS systems.
Experience working in AWS cloud environments and with modern DevOps practices.
Deep curiosity and engineer’s mindset - you enjoy experimenting, testing, and shipping working solutions.
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. (Preferred)
Experience fine-tuning and optimizing Large Language Models (LLMs). (Preferred)
Experience integrating AI into streaming or real-time data flows. (Preferred)
Background in Natural Language Processing (NLP). (Preferred)
Exposure to fintech or the legal industry. (Preferred)