Legal Engineer

New York City, New York, USA

About Robin AI

Robin AI is on a mission to revolutionize the legal industry by simplifying contracts and making law accessible to everyone. We utilize cutting-edge machine learning and contract software, enhancing traditional legal services and bringing together experts in engineering, AI, and law. Robin AI has recently raised $26m in Series B funding and has seen an impressive 5x revenue growth in the last 12 months.

We're looking for passionate, resourceful and collaborative people to join Robin. If you're motivated about leveraging technology to make essential business services more accessible, come join us!

About this role

Robin AI is looking for a Legal Engineer to join our team in developing groundbreaking legal technology products. You will work at the exciting intersection of law and technology, collaborating with lawyers, machine learning (ML) engineers, AI researchers, and product managers in order to help design, build and evaluate industry-leading legal AI products.

We are looking for someone with a keen interest in legal AI, with a strong understanding of how legal teams deliver professional services and execute complex legal and knowledge tasks. You will use your legal knowledge and creative thinking to enhance our core product offerings and deliver innovative features to customers.

What you’ll do

• Work with the product, implementation and research teams to identify new AI-based solutions for product features, through the lens of your legal experience.
• Utilise your legal know-how to test, evaluate and improve product features and research streams that drive development.
• Assist senior members of the team in analysing legal workflows and high-value tasks, and collaborate with our engineering team to build AI/ML-powered solutions to automate and improve those workflows and tasks.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest developments in the application of AI in the legal sector, such as large language models (LLM) capabilities.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Juris Doctor or equivalent.
• 1-3 years in a relevant legal or regulatory field, such as law firm or in-house practice, or as a legal or compliance professional.
• Enthusiasm for legal technology and AI-driven products.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality work product on demanding deadlines.
• Ability to define positive outcomes in situations with underspecified success criteria.
• Willingness and desire to own workstreams, for example, managing document-specific taxonomies, evaluating hundreds of answers and analysing data generated from thousands of legal documents.
• Strong interest in learning about traditional ML models, prompt engineering and LLMs.

Beneficial:

• Experience in a legal tech company or with legal tech products (such as eDiscovery systems, clause extraction projects, legal research or contract management tools).
• Experience working with ML or AI-driven products and an understanding of core ML concepts.
• Prior experience working directly with LLMs and prompting.
• Basic coding experience in Python or experience with crafting code to prepare data, define model architectures and configure training pipelines.

Compensation at Robin AI

• Salary: $65,000 - $120,000
• Generous Equity package: When you help build Robin AI, everyone deserves to be an owner.
• Please Note: If your salary expectations look a little different to that outlined, we’d still be keen to hear from you if this is a role that excites you and one that you think you could really excel in.

Robin AI cannot offer sponsorship in the US but we can provide visa transfer/extension.

Benefits at Robin AI

At Robin AI, we put humanity first - we believe a great product is inextricably linked to a great internal community.

We’re a quickly growing, cross-functional team that values supporting each other's development. As part of the team, you can expect:

• 15 days PTO, excluding national holidays, cultural leave, and birthday leave
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Coverage
• Long-term Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401k Retirement
• Flex spending and HSA
• Technology to enable you to work seamlessly from the office or home
• Focus on continual learning and development

Robin's flexible work model aims to meet the needs of our diverse employee community by making work more flexible, connected, and inclusive. Depending on the role and needs of the team, Robin employees have the flexibility to work from home 2/3 days per week.

Robin is deliberate about the culture we are building and are committed to creating an inclusive environment that attracts the best talent from diverse backgrounds. Whether it’s helping curate the Robin Spotify playlist, discussing gender equality in tech, or taking a meditation break with our holistic health plan, we want you to find your space within the Robin community.

From our offices in Lower Manhattan, New York, USA you’ll have access to all of the WeWork amenities including co-working space, bike lockers, pool tables, table tennis, free barista-made coffee and free beer in the evenings.

Diversity, equity and Inclusion at Robin AI

We want to break diversity, inclusion and equality barriers within the tech industry. In building our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring, and welcome applications regardless of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, education, opinions, nation of origin, languages spoken, age, pregnancy and maternity, or veteran’s status. To request reasonable accommodation, we encourage you to communicate any reasonable accommodations you may need to your recruiter as you move forward.

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