Sr. AI Developer
Goodwin Procter LLP · Boston, MA
$137,100–$236,500from the description
Jul 13, 2026
Boston, MA
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role at a law firm, focused on designing, building, and operating production-grade AI agents and agentic systems end to end. The work spans workflow discovery, system design, full-stack development (primarily C#/.NET, Python, and TypeScript/React), deployment on Azure, and ongoing reliability and evaluation. The role suits an experienced software engineer comfortable taking loosely defined problems through to shipped, measurable solutions with limited oversight.
Senior level · 3+ years · Boston, MA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 140 people in the Boston, MA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 85–260
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $169,742 (middle half $134,780–$187,781). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting lists multiple office locations (Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Monica) with varying salary bands; Boston is used as the primary CBSA. The full salary range across all locations spans $134,300–$236,500/year.
The JD states 'Minimum 3–5 years building and shipping software to production'; 3 years is used as the overall years minimum per the lower bound of the range.
A Bachelor's degree is listed alongside 'or equivalent practical experience,' so no hard degree gate is applied.
Azure AI Foundry is explicitly called 'a plus' in the requirements section, so it is marked preferred despite appearing near required skills.
LangChain/LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework, and LlamaIndex are presented as interchangeable examples of LLM orchestration frameworks ('such as'); LangChain is the primary name with the others as alternatives.
RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) and API/queue integration experience appear under the 'What Would Set You Apart' section and are marked preferred.
Azure is listed as the primary cloud platform, but the JD explicitly states 'Comparable experience with other major clouds transfers,' so AWS and GCP are noted as alternatives.
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