Senior AI Engineer — Agent Platform & Document Intelligence

About SmartAdvocate

SmartAdvocate is an industry-leading legal case management platform used by 20,000+ legal professionals across North America, from solo practitioners to large multi-office firms. We are embedding advanced AI directly into the core of the platform to automate complex legal workflows, modernize firm operations, and generate deep document intelligence.

What you would be joining

This is not a greenfield AI experiment. SmartAdvocate already runs a suite of AI services in production: document classification and data extraction, medical chronology generation, demand letter drafting, case chat over vectorized case documents, an agent runtime, and an MCP server that lets external AI platforms operate directly against case data.

Your work is the next layer: an agent platform that runs case work autonomously in the background, and document intelligence that lets a generated legal document point back to the exact line of the exact record it came from.

Position overview

We are looking for a hands-on senior engineer to build two things that reinforce each other: background AI agents that do real case work inside our platform, and generative document engines whose every statement can be traced to its source.

This is a build-and-operate role. You will design these systems, ship them, and own them in production.

Key responsibilities

Autonomous and event-driven agents

• Architect background AI agents capable of reasoning, decision-making and multi-step workflow execution inside the case management system.
• Build document intelligence pipelines that extract, summarize, cross-reference and act on unstructured legal documents — medical records, pleadings, discovery, court orders and correspondence.
• Build trigger-based systems where agents watch case status changes, new documents and incoming data, and fire the right downstream action.
• Design the human side of autonomy: work assignable to an agent, a review que