Forward Deployed Engineer

• Own deployments end-to-end - from the first scoping conversation through go-live and production rollout, acting as the primary point of contact for the people who depend on the system daily
• Design and ship production AI systems - document generation agents, agentic workflows, automation pipelines - integrated into client environments and built to handle the edge cases of real legal work
• Build and evolve AI agents - prompt engineering, model integration, rapid prototyping with AI-assisted coding tools, and eval loops that measure quality against workflow-specific benchmarks
• Debug and resolve issues fast - in live client environments, with real stakes. You build diagnostic tools, ship fixes, and make sure things keep running
• Feed insights back to the product team - what you discover in the field shapes the roadmap. You’re a core feedback loop between clients and what gets built next
• Capture best practices in internal playbooks to make every future deployment faster and smarter
• Move across the full stack - frontend, backend, whatever it takes to ship

Do you have experience in UI?, * Strong engineering fundamentals, comfortable in the field - we’re a TypeScript / React / Node stack; you write real code and own it in production, and you’re just as at ease in a standup with attorneys and paralegals as you are debugging a live case management environment

• Hands-on AI experience - prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale - not just familiarity with the landscape. You want to deploy AI workers into real law firms and watch them transform how firms operate
• A 0-to-1 build track record - you’ve shipped production software in ambiguous environments, you write clean pragmatic code, and you don’t let perfect get in the way of done. Our clients have real deadlines; so do we
• Exceptional communication - you can explain a model integration to a paralegal who’s never heard of an API, earn their trust in the same conversation, and bring that same clarity back to the engineering team

• Competitive salary + equity
• High-energy in-person culture with an office built for focus, fitness, and fun - gym, yoga studio, dog park, free EV charging, and regular in-office events included
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Lunch, snacks, and team outings
• Latest tech - and as many monitors as you can fit on a desk
• AI tokens covered - use the tools that make you fast

This is a highly agentic, client-facing engineering role at the intersection of deep technical work and client relationships. You’ll write production code, deploy AI systems into live legal environments, and own client outcomes end-to-end. You’re not a support function. You’re not an implementation consultant. You’re the engineer who makes Glade actually work - inside the firm, in the messiness of the real world, not just in a clean dev environment., Put yourself in our shoes. We get over 300+ applicants / week. We want to spend time with the right candidates. During your interview process you will meet at least 3 other engineers and managers within Glade. So putting your best foot forward by building something unique is the fastest way to being the right candidate.

You are the right candidate if:

• You have looked at what we do on our website with great detail and vibe coded a small feature - however tiny that would either help our customers: the law firms that use Glade or their Clients that are served on the Glade platform.
• The feature you build as a Software Engineer must be accessible via Claude links or hosted by you on your own server.
• Use of LLMs and Cursor is highly encouraged.
• Build bits of the UI or interesting use of LLModels to extract or modify data - you can make it as interesting as you need. Use your imagination and build something fun and cool.

Why Join Us

• High ownership - you’ll directly shape how customers experience the product; significant equity and real influence over product decisions
• Speed - tight feedback loops between customers and engineering; hiring wraps within days
• Impact - your work shapes a core AI platform used by real law firms every day, in one of the industries most ready to transform
• Career acceleration - our rapid growth means outsized opportunities for the people who grow with us