Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid from Oslo, Norway; Wrocław, Poland; or Chicago, United States, with 3 days per week in the office and approximately 25% client travel. Candidates must be authorized to work in the applicable country without employer sponsorship.

Company

hirify.global is a growth-stage legal AI company building Aurora, a configurable platform for creating, governing, and deploying AI workflows connected to law firms’ knowledge and existing systems.

What you will do

• Work with clients and senior legal engineers to map legal processes, including inputs, decisions, exceptions, and approvals.
• Build workflows in Aurora for document intake, clause extraction, contract review, drafting, and multi-step agents.
• Configure prompts, models, document search, integrations, access controls, and confidentiality boundaries.
• Write Python scripts, custom components, data transformations, and API calls where low-code configuration is insufficient.
• Test workflows against real examples and agreed evaluations, fix failures, and demonstrate compliance with legal acceptance criteria.
• Run workshops and pilots, support AI Academy sessions, manage post-launch ownership, and feed reusable patterns and product issues back to Product and Engineering.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in a technical, client-facing role such as solutions engineering, implementation consulting, technical consulting, automation, or development.
• Hands-on experience configuring or building with workflow automation, integrations, a low-code platform, or software development tools.
• Ability to read and write simple Python scripts, work with JSON and REST APIs, and debug technical solutions.
• Daily use of LLMs and a practical understanding of prompting, model reliability, and model limitations.
• Ability to structure vague processes into clear steps, inputs, decisions, and failure points.
• Ability to learn professional-services domains quickly, explain technical topics clearly to law-firm partners and engineers, and communicate AI limitations honestly.
• Ability to work in a small, changing startup environment, seek early review, and follow engineering standards for design reviews, testing, traceability, monitoring, and human review.
• Fluent English required.
• Work authorization in the applicable country without employer visa sponsorship required.

Nice to have

• Experience with n8n, Make, Zapier, Power Automate, or similar workflow tools.
• Experience building LLM applications, retrieval-augmented generation, or agents.
• Background in law, consulting, audit, finance, engineering, or another professional-services field.
• Experience with iManage, SharePoint, or other document management systems.
• Experience with law-firm constraints such as matter permissions and ethical walls.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure.

Culture & Benefits

• Growth-stage startup environment with evolving processes, changing priorities, and emphasis on ownership, resourcefulness, and creating structure.
• Regular coaching from the Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, technical standards, delivery playbooks, and collaborative client-pod work.
• Competitive salary, equity, and bonus across all locations.
• Country-specific benefits, including statutory benefits, pension, paid leave, and parental leave in Norway and Poland; medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and paid time off in the United States.
• Approximately 25% client travel for discovery workshops, pilots, and go-live support.

Hiring process

• 15-minute screening call.
• One-hour case assessment to design and build a flow for a realistic client problem.
• Three-hour presentation of the case to the team, including the Head of Forward Deployed Engineering.
• 15-minute CEO interview.