Principal Software Engineer (Full-stack) @ Callidus AI

About Callidus AI:

Callidus aims to be the most advanced legal (generative) AI platform, leveraging the latest LLMs.

Using our tool, in ~10 minutes, lawyers can draft a high-quality 25-page memo PDF with detailed reasoning, accurate case citations, and more (saving hours to days of work). We are an engineering-led organization that believes in empowering great resources and working collaboratively on our mission.

Callidus has just closed funding from AI Fund, led by Andrew Ng.

This is an opportunity for a person who loves AI to be able to build from the ground up an amazing product with substantial ownership.

Your Role:

Principal Software Engineer. Hands-on, writing code - not looking for a manager. You will report to the CTO.

Core Requirements:

Ability to efficiently produce quality deliverables:

- Full-Stack Development ability (front-end and back-end) in Python and React

- An otherwise strong ability to have a high development output with quality code, detail-

oriented user experiences, minimal bugs, etc. - the standard stuff

Meaningful experience with generative AI:

- Experience with LLM APIs

- Prompt engineering expertise

- Knowledge of LLM architectures

- Experience at an existing LLM-based startup

Soft skills:

- Good communication / low word : insight ratio

- General professionalism

- Ownership mentality

- Willingness to join daily standup and jump on calls quickly when you need to collaborate

- Willingness to join hackathons when necessary to meet a deadline

- Doing what you say you’re going to do a substantial majority of the time and giving a

heads up if you need to adjust

- General intuitiveness – ability to understand work with more general requirements

Passion and Dedication:

- Inherent desire to build something amazing

- Deep interest in AI

- Strong work ethic

- Full-time, fully-dedicated, able to work U.S. hours

Nice-to-Have Extras:

- Any experience in legal or legal tech

- Personal use of a variety of generative AI tools (e.g., Github CoPilot X, Pika, Midjourney, etc.)

- General automation and productivity experience

- DevOps experience in Azure

- Responsiveness and ability to follow-through

Tech Stack:

- Azure

- Python backend, interfacing with GPT-4 and other LLMs, using FastAPI

- ReactJS front-end / Node/Next

- MongoDB ancillary backend database

- Milvus / Vector databases

- Redis

Why Join?

- Work on the cutting-edge of the most groundbreaking technology since … fire?

- Engineering-led, empowered, high-talent team – you’ll own big stuff. Example: Build an end-to-end system for taking millions of pages of PDFs from a document repository and find a needle-in-a-haystack issues, like “all the instances a disparaging comment was made by an employee”

- 100% Remote