Senior Applied AI Engineer

📋 Description

• • Lawhive Inc. is on a mission to democratize access to legal services, making legal help affordable and accessible for everyone. We are building an innovative online platform that seamlessly integrates regulated human lawyers with a groundbreaking AI lawyer, "Lawrence," specifically designed for consumer legal work. Our vision is to establish access to the law as a fundamental societal utility, leveling the playing field for individuals and small businesses.
• • Our AI lawyer, Lawrence, has already achieved a significant milestone by passing the UK’s bar exam equivalent, demonstrating the power and potential of our AI technology. This achievement is built upon our proprietary fine-tuned Large Language Model (LLM).
• • We are a rapidly growing startup, backed by prominent US and UK venture capital firms including Google Ventures, Balderton Capital, and TQ Ventures. Our recent $40 million Series A funding round underscores our strong market position and ambitious growth plans, including international expansion and significant team scaling. This funding round was one of the top five largest Series A rounds in Europe for 2024.
• • As a Senior Applied AI Engineer, you will play a pivotal role within our AI Engineering & Infrastructure team. Your primary responsibility will be to translate cutting-edge AI research and development into robust, production-ready features and services. This involves deploying these advanced AI capabilities at scale, enhancing our underlying infrastructure, and ensuring the unwavering reliability and performance of our AI-driven applications in a live production environment.
• • You will be instrumental in bridging the critical gap between groundbreaking AI research and practical, real-world applications. This collaborative role requires close interaction with our talented AI researchers, experienced software engineers, and dedicated product teams to bring innovative AI solutions to life.
• • Key responsibilities include developing and maintaining production-ready APIs and microservices that effectively expose our sophisticated AI functionalities to both internal systems and external-facing applications. This ensures that our AI capabilities are readily available and seamlessly integrated.
• • You will be tasked with significantly improving the reliability, monitoring, and overall observability of our AI-driven applications. This proactive approach will ensure that our systems perform optimally and that any potential issues are identified and resolved swiftly.
• • A core aspect of your role will involve scaling our AI systems to meet the demands of complex, real-world legal use cases. This includes, but is not limited to, advanced legal document analysis, accurate case outcome predictions, and the provision of automated legal advice, all handled efficiently and at scale.
• • You will collaborate closely with fellow AI engineers, ensuring the seamless and efficient deployment of AI workflows and trained models into our production environment. This cross-functional teamwork is essential for rapid iteration and deployment.
• • The role involves working extensively with event-driven architectures and asynchronous workflows. This is crucial for processing large-scale AI workloads efficiently, enabling us to handle vast amounts of data and complex computational tasks with agility.
• • Ensuring the security and compliance of our AI-driven legal services is paramount. You will be responsible for implementing and maintaining robust security measures and adhering to all relevant compliance standards within the legal tech domain.
• • This is an opportunity to work with state-of-the-art AI technologies, contribute to a product with significant societal impact, and grow your career within a dynamic and well-funded startup environment. You will be at the forefront of applying AI to solve one of society's most pressing challenges: ensuring equal access to justice.