Amadeus Search
Amadeus Search is hiring: Lead Software Engineer in Palo Alto
Amadeus Search, Palo Alto, CA, US, 94306
Role: Lead Software Engineer
Location: Palo Alto, CA (On-site, 5 days/week)
Compensation: $150k-$230k + highly competitive equity
About the Role
A rapidly growing AI company is seeking a Lead Software Engineer with deep expertise in Search and NLP to join its founding team. This is a unique opportunity to shape the technical direction of core infrastructure, powering secure, enterprise-grade software for Fortune 500 companies' legal and risk departments.
What You Will Do
This company is backed by $105M Series A funding from top investors and is already trusted by global enterprises. You'll join a fast-moving, impact-driven team of AI builders and legal experts, tackling one of the most complex challenges in tech: making AI in legal trustworthy, accurate, and secure. If you're looking for ownership, innovation, and the chance to define an industry's future-this is the role.
Location: Palo Alto, CA (On-site, 5 days/week)
Compensation: $150k-$230k + highly competitive equity
About the Role
A rapidly growing AI company is seeking a Lead Software Engineer with deep expertise in Search and NLP to join its founding team. This is a unique opportunity to shape the technical direction of core infrastructure, powering secure, enterprise-grade software for Fortune 500 companies' legal and risk departments.
What You Will Do
- Architect & Implement: Design complex Search infrastructure, including data pipelines, indexing systems, and query processing.
- Own Systems: Ensure stability, scalability, and performance across mission-critical platforms.
- Collaborate: Partner with product managers, AI researchers, and engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions.
- Optimize Performance: Identify and resolve bottlenecks, ensuring low latency and high throughput.
- Innovate: Research and adopt cutting-edge algorithms, technologies, and design patterns.
- Mentor: Guide and coach junior engineers on best practices, code quality, and technical problem-solving.
- Proven experience building scalable Search, NLP, or distributed systems.
- Strong skills in Java, C++, Python, or Go, with hands-on experience in cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS).
- Ability to lead technical strategy, while remaining hands-on in architecture and development.
- Passion for solving complex, unsolved challenges in AI infrastructure.
- Track record of collaboration and mentoring within fast-paced teams.
- Base salary range: $150k-$230k
- Extremely competitive equity package
- Full visa sponsorship available
- Opportunity to build and scale at the forefront of AI + legal tech innovation
This company is backed by $105M Series A funding from top investors and is already trusted by global enterprises. You'll join a fast-moving, impact-driven team of AI builders and legal experts, tackling one of the most complex challenges in tech: making AI in legal trustworthy, accurate, and secure. If you're looking for ownership, innovation, and the chance to define an industry's future-this is the role.