Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Backend - West Palm Beach
Core
Embed with law firms to model their legal precedent and playbooks into a legal ontology, building backend services and LLM systems for contract drafting, review, and search workflows.
Role type
Forward Deployed Backend Engineer (Early Career)
Builds
Legal ontology, backend services for drafting/review/search, and LLM production systems for elite law firms.
Domain
Legal Technology / AI / Contract Management
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
SQL, API design, backend service debugging, data modeling, system profiling, query tuning, TypeScript, React
Preferred skills
Retrieval system experience, agent frameworks, customer-facing consulting, document-heavy domain exposure
Technologies
Postgres, OpenSearch, Graph Database, AWS, TypeScript, React, Claude Code
Responsibilities
Model firm precedent into ontology, build backend services for drafting and search, write and test LLM prompts with evaluation scaffolding, optimize scale and performance, deploy features into law firm environments, ship frontend UI changes.
Seniority
Early Career, hands-on IC