Senior Software Engineer – AI, Legal

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York, +3 more states.

📋 Description

• Engage in high-value client interactions, overseeing technical discovery, determining legal use cases, and establishing credibility with both legal and technical stakeholders.

• Convert complex legal workflows, business challenges, and client objectives into intelligent solution designs, technical specifications, and implementation strategies.

• Create and deploy AI-driven solutions for legal processes such as contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis.

• Develop RAG pipelines, custom AI agents, and multi-step workflows utilizing CoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, and other related enterprise systems.

• Spearhead LLM evaluation initiatives for legal applications, including output quality benchmarking, hallucination risk assessment, citation quality testing, and validation for high-stakes legal tasks.

• Ensure that implemented solutions comply with ethical AI, data protection, and enterprise security standards while fostering the trust that legal professionals require.

• Mentor junior engineers, contribute reusable solution assets, and assess emerging AI techniques to enhance quality and delivery across the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD), formal legal education, or equivalent extensive experience in a legal practice setting.

• Proficiency in legal terminology and proven experience collaborating directly with lawyers, legal teams, or legal operations stakeholders.

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, with a minimum of 2 years dedicated to AI/ML or LLM-powered applications.

• Advanced skills in Python and experience with AI/ML frameworks and production-level AI systems.

• Strong grasp of machine learning principles, LLM evaluation techniques, prompt engineering, and AI system design tailored for domain-specific workflows.

• Experience in constructing and integrating AI solutions into production environments using APIs, scalable pipelines, and contemporary cloud-based tools.

• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to work autonomously in ambiguous, client-facing settings with both legal and technical stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way.

• Career Development and Growth.

• Industry Competitive Benefits.

• Culture.

• Social Impact.

• Making a Real-World Impact.

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, and life insurance.

• Competitive 401k plan with company match.

• Optional hospital, accident, and sickness insurance fully paid by the employee.

• Optional life and AD&D insurance fully paid by the employee.

• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.

• Fitness reimbursement.

• Access to Employee Assistance Program.

• Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit fully paid by the employee.

• Access to 529 Plan.

• Commuter benefits.

• Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance.

• Tuition Reimbursement.

• Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.