AI Engineer - Senior
ME Lawyers · Los Angeles, US
Job description
Senior AI Engineer (AI Agents & Automation)
- Identify high-value opportunities to apply AI and automation across the firm's legal, client service, and operational workflows
- Design, build, test, and deploy production-ready AI applications, agents, automations, and system integrations
- Develop AI-powered solutions using LLMs, APIs, retrieval systems, structured data extraction, agentic workflows, and other emerging AI technologies
- Integrate AI systems with case-management, CRM, communication, document, database, and other internal business systems
- Collaborate directly with firm leadership, attorneys, and operations teams to understand business problems and translate them into practical technical solutions
- Build systems that automate document review, case analysis, intake, quality assurance, client communications, internal knowledge retrieval, and other high-value workflows
- Establish reliable processes for AI evaluation, testing, monitoring, logging, human review, and continuous improvement
- Design solutions with appropriate security, access controls, auditability, and data protection for confidential and privileged client information
- Measure the performance and business impact of AI systems and continuously improve solutions based on real-world results
- Evaluate emerging AI tools, models, frameworks, and technologies and determine when they can provide meaningful value to the firm
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of professional software engineering or application development experience, with recent hands-on experience building and deploying AI-powered applications
- Strong programming experience in Python and/or TypeScript, with the ability to build beyond no-code or low-code automation platforms
- Hands-on experience working with major LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or similar platforms
- Experience building AI agents, tool-calling workflows, RAG systems, structured-output pipelines, or other production LLM applications
- Experience working with REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth, databases, and third-party system integrations
- Experience with AI development frameworks or workflow platforms such as LangGraph, PydanticAI, LlamaIndex, n8n, Make, Zapier, or similar tools
- Experience with LLM evaluation, testing, monitoring, reliability, or other methods for improving AI system performance
- Experience with document processing, OCR, embeddings, vector databases, or large-document pipelines is highly preferred
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, as well as Docker and Git, is preferred
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to turn ambiguous business problems into practical technical solutions
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work directly with attorneys, leadership, and nontechnical team members
- Highly independent, resourceful, and accountable, with a strong bias toward building, testing, shipping, and improving solutions
Requirements:
- Able to provide links to 2–3 AI systems, applications, automations, repositories, or technical projects personally built or substantially contributed to
- Able to clearly explain their individual contributions, technical decisions, architecture, and deployment process for submitted projects
Pay: $160,000.00 - $220,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
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