Townsend and Townsend and Crew

Senior AI Developer

Townsend and Townsend and Crew$180K — $250K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field preferred
  • Experience building agentic AI systems with production tool use and multi-step workflows
  • Strong knowledge of the Anthropic platform, including Claude models
  • Experience with Microsoft AI services such as Azure OpenAI and Semantic Kernel
  • Familiarity with MCP or similar integration frameworks for AI-to-tool connections
  • Proficiency in real-time streaming architectures and enterprise authentication
  • Ability to work across the full tech stack, from backend to frontend

Responsibilities

  • Help define the technical roadmap for AI adoption and vendor evaluations
  • Architect multi-agent systems using advanced AI techniques
  • Build and maintain self-contained automation workflows with quality assurance
  • Design context management strategies for AI systems
  • Extend the MCP server network with new integrations and security enhancements
  • Build real-time streaming interfaces for AI-generated insights
  • Engineer solutions for large-scale enterprise data challenges

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision
  • Life insurance and short-term disability plans
  • Retirement plans and holidays
  • Hybrid work schedules combining remote and in-office work
  • Opportunities for significant technical ownership and influence over architecture and decisions
Full Job Description
We are looking for a Senior AI Developer, fully remote, to help shape the future of AI at the firm. This is an individual contributor role with significant technical ownership. You will design and deploy agentic AI systems, scale our internal platforms, extend our MCP infrastructure, and help define the technical roadmap for AI adoption.

Our AI systems are in production today, serving the firm at scale. We are looking for someone who is ready to contribute immediately to an active, fast-moving development environment.

Your first 6 to 12 months will focus on:
  • Scaling document intelligence and RAG pipelines to handle millions of enterprise documents with high retrieval accuracy
  • Expanding agentic workflows and AI skills that automate complex, multi-step legal and operational tasks
  • Strengthening the MCP integration layer with new tool connections, improved security, and increased reliability

What You Will Do
  • Help define the technical roadmap for AI adoption, contributing to build-vs-buy decisions, vendor evaluations, and architectural direction
  • Architect multi-agent systems and agentic workflows using tool use, function calling, planner-executor pipelines, agent swarms, and autonomous task decomposition
  • Build and maintain AI skills: self-contained automation workflows that run in their own execution context with quality assurance verification
  • Design context management strategies including RAG, semantic search, vector embedding pipelines, conversation compaction, long-term memory management, and grounding
  • Extend our MCP server network with new tool integrations, dynamic server discovery, gateway architectures, OAuth 2.1 auth flows, audit logging, and sandboxed execution
  • Build real-time streaming interfaces that surface AI-generated insights, citations, and structured outputs
  • Engineer solutions for large-scale data challenges across millions of documents, patent databases, and enterprise systems
  • Implement guardrails, evaluation pipelines, and data governance standards appropriate for a regulated legal environment
  • Evaluate and integrate new models, APIs, and capabilities as they ship from Anthropic, Microsoft, and other providers

Our Stack

Anthropic (Claude, Agent SDK, MCP) | Azure OpenAI | Azure AI Foundry | Semantic Kernel | Azure AI Search | Azure Document Intelligence | C# / .NET | React / TypeScript | Node.js | SQL Server | SignalR | SSE Streaming

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field preferred
  • Demonstrated experience building agentic AI systems with tool use, function calling, and multi-step workflow execution in production
  • Strong working knowledge of the Anthropic platform (Claude models, Messages API, streaming, extended thinking, Claude Agent SDK)
  • Experience with Microsoft AI services (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, or related offerings)
  • Experience with MCP or similar AI-to-tool integration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, custom pipelines, or equivalent)
  • Experience building RAG pipelines, semantic search, and document intelligence workflows at scale
  • Proficiency with real-time streaming architectures (SSE, WebSockets, Streamable HTTP) and enterprise auth (OAuth 2.0/2.1, Azure AD/Entra ID)
  • Ability to work across the stack: backend APIs, streaming infrastructure, frontend interfaces
  • Proficiency with AI-native development platforms (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) over expertise in any single language
  • Track record of independently solving complex, ambiguous problems and shipping working solutions

Preferred Qualifications
  • Understanding of ML fundamentals: fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT), evaluation metrics, NLP tasks, and MLOps/LLMOps practices
  • Familiarity with ML frameworks (PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, scikit-learn)
  • Experience with large-scale data processing: millions of documents, vector embedding pipelines, enterprise databases
  • Knowledge of large law firm operations, IP workflows, or enterprise document management systems (iManage, NetDocuments)

What Success Looks Like

In your first year, you will have:
  • Expanded the reach of our AI platforms across users, use cases, and connected enterprise systems
  • Shipped production agentic workflows that complete complex tasks with minimal human intervention
  • Improved retrieval accuracy and reduced hallucination rates in RAG pipelines over large document corpora
  • Built new MCP integrations that connect AI agents to previously inaccessible enterprise data
  • Contributed evaluation pipelines, monitoring, and guardrails that increase confidence in shipping faster

Why KT
  • Production AI at scale. Our AI platforms are in daily use across the firm, with a clear roadmap for continued expansion.
  • Modern technology stack. Work with the latest platforms from Anthropic and Microsoft, including production MCP integrations and agentic workflows.
  • Autonomy and ownership. Significant influence over technical decisions, architecture, and the direction of AI at the firm.
  • Global reach. Serve attorneys and professionals across 22 offices worldwide and a client-facing AI portal.
  • Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits commensurate with the market for senior AI talent.

This is a full-time, regular position with a multi-faceted health benefit package including medical, dental, and vision. The firm also offers life insurance, short term disability plans and retirement plans in addition to holidays and paid time off. The firm offers hybrid work schedules combining in office work days as well as remote work days. The pay range for this position in California only is $180,000 to $250,000 annually.

About Townsend and Townsend and Crew

Townsend and Townsend and Crew was a law firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1860 and was one of the oldest and largest intellectual property law firms in the United States. The firm provided legal services in the areas of patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and related litigation. In 2009, the firm merged with Kilpatrick Stockton to form Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton.
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