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# Backend Engineers

- **Company:** Ivo Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems, Cluster Analysis, Databases, Data Mining, Large Language Models, Backend, Software Coding
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-ivo-inc-8342827

## About the Role

* You love writing code, but you love having impact more: We're a team of engineers at heart, but our #1 goal is building the best possible product. That means making pragmatic choices and looking for 80/20 solutions.
 * Would describe yourself as being relentlessly resourceful.
 * You have a strong internal sense of urgency. You have a bias towards doing things *today*, rather than tomorrow.
 * Experience working in a startup environment is preferred but not required.
 * Are excited about the adventure of building a company!

## Description

* An AI agent that lives in MS word and edits the document for you [2023]
 * Ditching imprecise embeddings models in favor of agentic RAG [2023]
 * Large-scale LLM-based legal fact extraction [2024]
 * A legal assistant that can search large contract databases, without sacrificing accuracy [2024]
 * Clustering legal documents descended from the same family [2025]
 * Automatic deviation analysis to locate buried risk in huge contract databases [2025]
 * Merging contracts with their amendments to make a time series of "composite" contracts (a customer actually cried when we showed her this) [2025], * Building systems that process and analyze millions of contracts reliably
 * Designing pipelines that orchestrate LLMs, data extraction, and clustering algorithms at scale
 * Creating the most accurate search and retrieval systems on the market
 * Collaborating with lawyers and product to build the newly possible when LLMs change every few months


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