Technical Lead, Generative AI

Our Story: Litera, headquartered in Chicago, IL, is a fast-growing software company and one of the leading legal technology suppliers in the world. Serving more than 90% of the world’s largest law firms, our software is used by hundreds of thousands of lawyers every day. As a company recognized as one of the best places to work, we believe professional development, rewards programs, open communication, and transparent leadership all contribute to a unique and open work environment. Our employees are driven, energetic, passionate, and can make a direct impact on the future of the company.

The Opportunity: The Generative AI Innovation team is transforming the way Litera and its clients leverage their data for competitive advantage. As a tech lead on this team, you will consult and collaborate with numerous engineering and non-engineering teams at Litera to architect and POC GenAI features and solutions for both our market products and internal processes. You will function as a company GenAI expert, helping Litera to fully leverage the ever-expanding capabilities of this set of technologies. This is your chance to be a key member of a pioneering team with a market leading company.

A Day in the Life:

• Collaborate with Litera development teams to design, architect, and POC innovative GenAI -based products and features.
• Collaborate with non-engineering teams at Litera to leverage GenAI technologies and techniques to help develop solutions that improve the internal processes at the company.
• Research, evaluate, and document new technologies as they appear on the market.
• Function as a source for expert level knowledge of generative AI and other new technologies.
• Socialize new technologies throughout the company in
• Function as an evangelist for leveraging GenAI to responsibly benefit the company and our clients.
• Coach and mentor both developers and others to help develop GenAI skills and knowledge.
• Write clean, maintainable code that is extensible with minimum number of defects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (PM, QA) to complete tasks.
• Manage individual task priorities, estimates, deadlines, and deliverables
• Demonstrate knowledge of software and security best practices (i.e., object-oriented design patterns, OWASP Top 10, SOLID design principles).
• Deliver GenAI designs that scale
• Perform other duties as assigned

Role progression:

Within 1 month, you will:

• Complete our Engineering onboarding plan.
• Establish relationships with members of the GenAI innovation team.
• Become familiar with Litera product offerings.
• Learn the process of assisting other teams with GenAI projects.
• Begin technology research tasks.
• Assist the Director of Innovation and other team members with team tasks.

Within 3 months, you will:

• Collaborate with team members on PoC tasks.
• Produce documentation and evaluation of new technologies and their potential value for Litera.
• Communicate with other groups in the organization to evaluate the possibility of leveraging GenAI to address current process challenges and inefficiencies.

Within 6 months, you will:

• Collaborate with other team members to design, architect and POC robust features and products using GenAI and other new technologies.
• Translate product and feature ideas into technical designs and development tasks.
• Conduct sessions and webinars to disseminate new technology knowledge throughout the Engineering department.
• Define new opportunities for leveraging GenAI to improve Litera products and organizational processes.

About You:

• 8+ years of software development experience with strong competence in backend development
• 2+ years of ML/AI development experience including competence with:
• Large Language Models (preferably Azure OpenAI)
• Prompt Engineering
• LLM fine-tuning
• Embeddings/vectorization/semantic similarity
• RAG
• 5+ years of experience with the following technologies:
• .NET/.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Web/REST APIs
• 3+ years of experience with the following technologies:
• SQL Azure (preferred) or SQL Server
• PostgreSQL (preferred)
• Unit testing frameworks (i.e., Unknit, MSTest)
• 4+ years of experience with the following tools:
• GitHub
• Jira / Confluence
• Microsoft Visual Studio Code (preferred) or Microsoft Visual Studio
• Preferred skills/experience include:
• Competence coding in Python
• Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn
• Competence with random forest, histogram gradient modeling
• Experience with semantic agent development using Semantic Kernel and/or Langchain
• Competence using GitHub Copilot
• Education in Computer Science or Software Engineering (or related experience)
• Strong visioning and problem solving skills
• Independent thinker, collaborative teammate
• Excellent at multi-tasking and able to handle competing priorities