Forward Deployed Engineer , Legal
Build and deploy full-stack AI systems for legal teams, owning customer engagements from workflow discovery and prototyping through production adoption. The role requires 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, production coding skills, and experience with LLM-powered systems in regulated or high-stakes environments.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Embed with law firms and legal teams to understand workflows, identify high-value opportunities, and select initial use cases.
- Build and deploy full-stack AI systems from discovery and proof of concept through production adoption.
- Guide customer adoption and make trade-offs among scope, speed, and quality to protect delivery.
- Contribute directly to production code when needed.
- Codify successful deployment patterns into tools, playbooks, and reusable building blocks.
- Share field feedback with Research and Product on model performance and improvement opportunities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering, ML engineering, or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in financial services or adjacent regulated industries.
- Experience owning complex AI or data-driven systems end-to-end in high-stakes environments.
- Production-grade backend and frontend coding experience using Python, JavaScript, or comparable technologies.
- Experience deploying LLM- or generative-model-powered systems.
- Understanding of model behavior, evaluation, and guardrails.
- Ability to communicate technical trade-offs across engineering, product, risk, compliance, and executive stakeholders.
- Systems thinking, strong execution, and ability to improve operating standards from incidents and failures.
- Ability to remain decisive in urgent, ambiguous, and high-stakes delivery situations.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with legal technology, legal services, compliance-heavy workflows, or professional services.
Compensation and Benefits
- Annual salary range: $162,000–$280,000.
- Hybrid work model with three days in the office per week.
- Relocation assistance available.
- Travel up to 50% may be required.
Skills
Python, JavaScript, Full-Stack Development, LLMs, Generative AI, Model Evaluation, Ai Guardrails, Backend Development, Frontend Development, Production Deployment, Systems Thinking
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