Staff AI Platform Engineer

Laurel is on a mission to return time. As the leading AI Time platform for professional services firms, we’re transforming how organizations capture, analyze, and optimize their most valuable resource: time. Our proprietary machine learning technology automates work time capture and connects time data to business outcomes, enabling firms to increase profitability, improve client delivery, and make data-driven strategic decisions. We serve many of the world's largest accounting and law firms, including EY, Aprio, Crowell & Moring, and Frost Brown Todd, and process over 1 billion work activities annually that have never been collected and aggregated before Laurel’s AI Time platform.

Our team comprises top talent in AI, product development, and engineering—innovative, humble, and forward-thinking professionals committed to redefining productivity in the knowledge economy. We're building solutions that empower workers to deliver twice the value in half the time, giving people more time to be creative and impactful. If you're passionate about transforming how people work and building a lasting company that explores the essence of time itself, we'd love to meet you.

As a Staff AI Platform Engineer, you will lead efforts to build out Laurel’s AI platform to be worldclass. We already process millions of inferences per day, but to keep up with our growth, we need a platform to power not only hundreds of millions, but agentic workflows, LLM heavy features, RAG designs, etc.. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design and deploy a cutting-edge AI platform.

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  Own business‑critical AI challenges. Partner with product, design, and engineers to uncover the real customer problems, then frame them as tractable projects supported by a AI platform.

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  Build end‑to‑end solutions. Harden and build out our AI platform to be world class. This includes a platform that supports full agentic capabilities and is heavily LLM reliant.

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  Ship incrementally, learn rapidly. Break ambitious ideas into testable slices, measure impact, and iterate. Curiosity drives you to ask the right questions; pragmatism drives you to deliver value week over week.

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  Elevate the team. Mentor engineers on best practices in AI engineering, model evaluation, prompt design, and responsible AI. Introduce tools and techniques that improve reliability, speed of deployment, fairness, and performance.

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  Take true ownership. We empower every team member to understand the business levers behind their work and to push for outcomes—not just tickets. You’ll have the autonomy to choose the right approach and the accountability for results.

Location: This role will be hybrid and based at our office in at least 2 days per week. Fully remote is available for exceptional candidates.

Visa Sponsorship: Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas at this time. (If there is flexibility to consider- insert this verbiage: We will consider visa sponsorship for exceptions candidates for this role)