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.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

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.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

- 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.

- 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 rel...