AI Engineer – Legal Innovation R&D

About the role

We are building a new R&D capability focused on data‑driven and AI‑enabled solutions for legal services. As an AI Engineer you will design, develop and ship end‑to‑end AI‑powered product features, from backend orchestration to user‑facing interfaces, within a multidisciplinary team.

Key responsibilities

• Build complete AI‑enabled product features across UI, backend, AI orchestration and enterprise integrations.
• Design and implement agentic AI workflows with tool calling, document processing and human‑review steps.
• Create reusable agent harnesses that ensure consistency, observability and safety.
• Develop grounded retrieval patterns using approved data sources, search indexes and permission‑aware repositories.
• Implement evaluation harnesses, manage prompts, model configuration and cost/latency trade‑offs.
• Write maintainable Python and TypeScript code, using Docker, Git, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.

Required profile

• Innovative and commercially minded with a strong interest in the impact of AI on legal services.
• Collaborative, able to work across discovery, prototyping, production and continuous improvement.
• Motivated by building reliable, observable and secure AI products.

Required skills

• Python programming.
• TypeScript programming.
• Docker containerisation.
• Git version control.
• CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Experience with AI model configuration, prompt management and retrieval systems.