Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI

The posting, as Topdoglaw wrote it

Our Story
TopDog Law is a nationally scaling personal injury firm that owns the client experience end to end, from marketing and intake through litigation. We've grown 2-3x year over year for three years running, and we're now building the operations, systems, and teams to scale without sacrificing quality or culture. We're fully remote, and we value ownership, open communication, and speed. If you want to help build something exceptional, you'll feel at home here.

The Opportunity
We're looking for a Staff-level Software Engineer who is as comfortable designing production systems as they are applying AI to real business problems. This is a hybrid role, not a pure AI research or ML engineering position. You'll build the internal tools and platforms that power our operations teams, and be the technical expert on where AI creates real value and where it doesn't.

You'll set technical direction across multiple teams and systems, not just the ones you build yourself. When the business needs to explore an AI opportunity, weigh technology options, or understand where we stand on AI, you'll investigate, recommend, and deliver. You'll navigate ambiguity and make well-reasoned build-versus-buy decisions, then drive the recommended solution through implementation. You'll also think about the data each product generates, so what we build feeds our analytics and helps leadership decide where to invest.

You bring strong engineering judgment, a bias toward pragmatic solutions, and the ability to turn open-ended questions into decisions and working software. You'll be a trusted technical advisor to leadership, and your impact will be measured by what the whole team ships, not just what you build yourself.

What You Will Own
Architecture & Delivery

• Build and own. Architect and build internal tools and platforms for operations teams, owning them from design through deployment and ongoing operation, including reliability and incident follow-through.
• Set direction. Define service boundaries, integration patterns, and data flow across teams, and write the technical strategy and RFCs that make the direction clear.
• Simplify. Reduce operational toil by retiring or consolidating systems, managing tech debt and migrations, and weighing long-term maintenance cost in every build-versus-buy decision.
• Integrate and protect. Build reliable integrations with legacy and third-party SaaS systems, with security, access control, and audit trails designed in for sensitive data.

Applied AI

• Apply AI with judgment. Identify where AI belongs in a solution and where it doesn't, and design it as a well-engineered part of the system (retrieval, agents, LLM-powered features, workflow automation).
• Prove it, then ship it. Run time-boxed proofs of concept that answer "is this worth doing?" with evidence, then advance successful proofs of concept into production-ready solutions, with evaluation, observability, reliability, and security.
• Guide AI investment. Assess o

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ation of each role. Ranges vary by geography based on local market rates and cost of labor.

• Benefits include: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with company match, HSA, life insurance, disability coverage, paid time off, and parental leave.

Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer. Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or being a qualified disabled veteran or qualified veteran of the Vietnam era or any other category protected by Federal or State law.
DISCLAIMER: This is a full-time employee position. It is not open to independent contractor or consulting arrangements. Compensation is determined by the location where the work is performed and is subject to applicable local law.
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All adverse decisions affecting your candidacy are reviewed by a human member of our Talent Acquisition team before being finalized. AI does not make the final decision on your candidacy.

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