Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Backend - New York
Core
Embed with law firms to model their legal precedent and playbooks into a product ontology, building backend services and LLM systems for drafting, review, and search workflows.
Role type
Forward Deployed Backend Engineer (AI/LLM)
Builds
Legal ontology, backend services for drafting/review/search, and LLM production systems for elite law firms.
Domain
Legal Technology (LegalTech) + Large Language Models
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
SQL, API design, backend service debugging, data modeling, system profiling, query tuning, cost optimization, TypeScript, React
Preferred skills
Retrieval system experience, evaluation harnesses, agent frameworks, customer-facing consulting
Technologies
Postgres, OpenSearch, graph database, AWS, TypeScript, React, Claude Code
Responsibilities
Model firm precedents into ontology, build backend features end-to-end, write and test LLM prompts with evaluation scaffolding, optimize scale and performance, deploy solutions into law firms, ship frontend UI changes
Seniority
Early career, hands-on IC