Junior AI Engineer

A large segment of the legal industry works on transactional legal processes. Building a wind farm, merging two companies or selling a skyscraper – lawyers help make these things happen and their work is surprisingly similar to planning and leading a technology project. There are documents to be produced, agreements to get signed, and a whole lot of detail to be understood, agreed and made clear. There’s an order in which things need doing and there are stages that need to be complete before you can move on.

For example, how do you make sure that when you buy a building you’re getting all the land you think you’re getting? How do you make sure you don’t fund a wind farm and then find that there is no permission to build it or that the people you funded are scammers? How do you make sure there isn’t an ambiguous clause that’ll make it all go wrong? You get a lawyer to manage the transaction.

Since the dawn of Microsoft Word, this humble word processor has been the default way to manage these legal transactions. We want to change this, by building a platform that allows transactions to be managed online, and in a collaborative way. That means we’re on a mission to transform the $600bn market for legal services worldwide.

Our customers include some of the world’s top law firms, such as Allen & Overy, Hogan Lovells, Herbert Smith Freehills, Shearman & Sterling and King & Wood Mallesons. And we’ve been used on transactions in more than 60 countries

The Role:

Do you dream of using AI to revolutionise the way legal deals get done?

We’re a growing legal tech start-up building software for transactional lawyers who work on high-stakes deals, like building power plants or merging major companies. We’re looking for a passionate and curious Entry-Level AI Developer/Engineer to join our team and help us push the boundaries of what’s possible.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Develop, extend, and maintain our existing suite of AI/ML services
• Design and build exciting new AI features for our products
• Collaborate with a talented team of engineers on a fast-paced, impactful project
• Get hands-on experience with all aspects of designing, implementing, and operating internet-facing SaaS software (from time to time we’ll need you to get involved in areas beyond AI/ML, using your JavaScript knowledge to contribute to the backend or frontend of our product set and to help integrate the ML services you’ve built).

Who would you be working with?

Steve Wheeler, CTO – who you will be reporting into, alongside a welcoming, inclusive and committed team.

Team culture is really important to us. We are looking for someone who is excited to join us as a key employee at this important stage in our growth and who will bring new and exciting perspectives to Legatics. We are a friendly and passionate bunch with a wide range of interests. We love to socialise together too, holding regular team events.

Requirements:

We’re looking for someone who:

• Loves learning: You’re eager to soak up knowledge and excited by the ever-evolving world of AI/ML.
• Has AI/ML chops: You can talk our ear off about your knowledge of AI/ML concepts and applications. Bonus points for personal projects you’ve tackled!
• Understands the web: You’ve got a solid grasp of how the internet works and how web applications are built (especially with JavaScript).
• Is a team player: You thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to learn from experienced developers.
• Tech Savvy: You have some experience with building and cleaning datasets, designing and interpreting ML experiments, documenting and communicating results.

Bonus Points If:

• You have experience with backend or frontend engineering in JavaScript.
• You have experience with Python.
• You’ve built your own AI/ML project (personal or professional).
• You can tell us why you’re passionate about legal tech and using AI to improve the legal industry.
• You have some knowledge of how lawyers work.

You Might Be Suitable For This Role If:

• You’re a Web Developer who wants to move into an AI role.
• You’re a lawyer who has learned to code and now wants to develop their skills further.
• You’re a graduate with a background in CS / Statistics.

Benefits:

What we offer you:

• 25 days holiday per year (plus public holidays).
• Early Finish Fridays – on the last Friday of every month, we finish at lunchtime!
• Pension with NEST.
• Personal Learning & Development budget.
• Access to Mental healthcare for you and your immediate family.
• Enhanced parental leave policies so you can spend more time with your family.
• Lots of opportunities for accelerated professional development and career progression.
• Work alongside a supportive and talented team with the opportunity to grow one of the world’s leading LegalTech scale-ups.
• A warm, genuinely collaborative culture and an awesome team; and
• Regular socials.

Technology:

We follow a microservices approach written in Node.js on AWS, managed using Terraform, Kustomize and Kubernetes. GraphQL and Apollo are used between front and backend. Our frontend is an SPA built with React and Redux, with some Ramda. We have a dedicated test / QA team, doing a combination of manual and automated testing.