Senior AI Software Engineer
1872 consultingMcHenry (IL)
Senior AI Software Engineer
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1872 consultingMcHenry (IL)
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
Senior and Lead Software Engineers (AI Engineering, .NET, Azure) Chicago, Dallas, Houston or New York (Hybrid) Full-time, direct hire Multiple openings at both levels
About the Company:
Our client is a top global law firm investing heavily in AI. Its growing engineering team builds new AI-powered applications for lawyers and business teams and works with the latest AI coding tools.
About the Role:
These are hands-on roles for engineers who build AI into real products, not just use AI to write code. Most of the work is greenfield .NET and Azure development: AI-powered litigation applications, enterprise workflow automation (billing, invoicing, HR, M&A and pricing), and turning internally built “vibe-coded” apps into enterprise-grade software. The team builds with tools like Claude Code, runs peer design reviews and pair programming, and has a dedicated DevOps group. Leads set technical direction and mentor while still writing production code, with no direct reports. Interviews are conversational and technical, with no live coding.
What You’ll Do:
- Build AI into production applications: LLM features, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agents and deterministic AI workflows, including on Azure OpenAI Service
- Design and build scalable C#/.NET services and APIs on Azure, with React or Next.js front ends
- Make AI dependable: structured outputs, evals, grounding with citations, human review where it matters, and strict permissions on confidential data
- Harden internally built prototypes into secure, tested, maintainable software
- Work directly with non-technical stakeholders to turn business problems into shipped solutions
- Lead level: guide architecture and AI engineering standards, run code and design reviews, build POCs and mentor engineers
- What You BringSenior: 5+ years of professional software development (internships don’t count). Lead: 8+ years preferred, including hands-on technical leadership
Strong C#/.NET back end: APIs, services, and SQL Server, PostgreSQL or Cosmos DBProduction Azure, such as App Service, Container Apps or AKS, Azure SQL, Service Bus and Azure OpenAI ServiceAI you’ve built into a real product (LLM features, RAG, agents or AI workflows), and the ability to walk through its architecture, what broke and how you fixed itDaily AI-assisted development, ideally with Claude Code (Codex also relevant)
Full-stack experience with React or Next.js (Angular translates); leaning back end or front end is fine
Working knowledge of CI/CD and deployments (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)
Clear communication with non-technical stakeholders, and ownership of features from design to production
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field (equivalent experience considered for Lead)US work authorization without sponsorship, now or in the future
Nice to Haves:
- Azure AI Search, Semantic Kernel, MCP, or workflow platforms such as n8n or TemporalLLM evals and observability, and AI security (prompt injection, least-privilege tools)
- Legal industry experience (helpful, not expected)
- Location and Base SalaryHybrid, typically onsite Monday to Wednesday. Full-time, direct hire, plus a potential signing bonus.
- Chicago, IL: Senior $98,300 to $135,200| Lead $122,900 to $169,000 Dallas, TX: Senior $93,900 to $129,000| Lead $117,300 to $161,300 Houston, TX: Senior $93,900 to $129,000| Lead $117,300 to $161,300 New York, NY: Senior $107,300 to $147,500| Lead $134,000 to $184,300
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