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Principal/Staff GenAI Architect/Engineer

Principal/Staff GenAI Architect/Engineer

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This range is provided by Callidus Legal AI. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$220,000.00/yr - $300,000.00/yr

Tl;dr Join Callidus, the most advanced legal generativeAI platform to take on our most challenging generative AI tasks, joining following a fresh funding round. Competitive total comp. Hustle culture. San Francisco.

About Callidus

We are entering the golden era of AI. Over the next 5-10 years, breakthroughs will drive a completely new world. Callidus is on a mission to transform the $1T global legal market and we're well on our way.

Callidus is the most advanced legal generative AI platform on the market today. We offer a uniquely powerful platform, enabling lawyers (as one example) to draft a full 30page legal brief in :10minutessaving about a week of effort. We are an engineeringled organization that empowers talent to build collaboratively toward our mission.

More than 1,000 paying lawyers rely on Callidus today, and ARR is growing >20% MoM, putting us in the top 1% of funded startups at this level. We're ready to scale and are looking to triple the size of our team.

We work hard, ship fast, and win together.

Your Role

We are looking for an architect-level engineer who can take on our most ambitious generative AI projects as both architect and engineer. You'll be an individual contributor (everyone at Callidus is a doer). Expect to:

• Set up optimized RAG/hybrid RAG systems
• Build sophisticated agents
• Fine-tune custom models
• Customize open source models via extended pretraining to include deeper
• Optimize our most important API calls to receive maximal results on our evals
• Quickly decide on the best models to use across our hundreds of API calls (or set up systems)
• Make intelligent tradeoffs on speed, scale, and quality

Seniority Level

Hiring for Principal/Staff level engineers/architects. Typically 8-15y post-college experience and 2-5y experience in the generative AI space.

This role will report to the Head of Engineering.

Tech Stack

• Cloud: Azure
• Backend: Python (FastAPI), Redis, Postgres
• Frontend: React/Next.js, Node
• AI: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Meta, Mistral (choosing bestinclass per task)

Requirements

What We're Looking For

Core Requirements

• Python and ideally React/Next
• Proven record of shipping highquality products quickly
• Deep experience working with LLM APIs and prompt engineering
• Ability to implement sophisticated LLM techniques (hybrid RAG, hallucination guardrails, agentic workflows, agents, etc.)
• Startup or LLMfocusedcompany experience
• Ability to commute to San Francisco office :3-5 days per week

Soft Skills

• Clear, concise communicatorlow words:insights ratio
• Ownership mindset: you do what you say and surface risks early
• Ability to work well with ambiguity and low amounts of process
• Excellent problem solving capabilities

Passion & Dedication

• Genuine excitement for AI and building categorydefining products
• Fantastic work ethic & ability to take on a very demanding role (similar culture to xAI, Amazon, Figure, etc.)
• Understanding that this will be much more than a 9to5. The high effort is easy when you love what you do, the company you're building, and the mission you're fulfilling

NicetoHaves

• Legal or LegalTech experience
• Strong DevOps skills on Azure (or AWS/GCP with quick rampup)
• Personal use of AI tooling (Cursor, CoPilot, Midjourney, etc.)
• Automation and productivityhack side projects
• Engineering degree

Interview Process (fast!)

• Meeting with a sourcing manager or our Head of Ops
• Connecting with our Head of Engineering
• Meeting another engineer
• Final session with CEO

We move very quickly for the right candidate.

Location

• San Francisco, CA
• No relocation budget, but you are welcome to apply if you are willing to move to San Francisco even if you don't already live here
• In-office at least 3 days per week

Benefits

Compensation

• Base Salary: $220,000 - $300,000
• Meaningful equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage + Life Insurance
• PTO + company holidays

Why Join Callidus?

• Build on the cutting edge of the most transformative tech since . . fire?
• Own significant pieces of product in an engineeringled, hightalent team
• Become one of the first 15 employees at a company poised for explosive growth
• Tackle highimpact, technically hard problems that competitors avoid
• Reap outsized rewards in equity and professional growth

Callidus is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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