Senior Nlp Research Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior NLP Research Engineer (AI): Developing and advancing Vincent AI by contributing to applied research experiments that integrate large language models (LLMs) into real-world legal workflows with an accent on retrieval at scale, learning to rank with legal signals, and agentic infrastructure for legal workflows. Focus on designing and running experiments that help measure system performance against the needs of legal professionals and creating mechanisms that ensure model responses are trustworthy by anchoring them in trusted legal sources.

Location: Available to candidates local to our Toronto hub, with the expectation of being in office minimum twice per week on our Anchor Days.

Salary: $154,700 to $182,000 to $209,300 CAD

Company

hirify.global is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.

What you will do

• Lead complex research projects focused on LLMs, advanced information retrieval, and novel AI applications in the legal domain.
• Design and implement sophisticated prototypes that demonstrate the feasibility and business value of cutting-edge research ideas.
• Drive the transition of research innovations from prototype to production, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.
• Contribute to strategic research planning by identifying high-impact research opportunities and helping prioritize initiatives based on business value and technical feasibility.
• Stay at the forefront of AI research, particularly in NLP, LLMs, and legal AI, actively incorporating state-of-the-art techniques into your work and sharing insights with the team.

Requirements

• Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• Industry experience in applied AI research or engineering.
• Experience with information retrieval systems, LLM fine-tuning and evaluation, LLM hosting and inference optimization, or LLM workflow automation.
• Track record of independently delivering complex technical projects from ideation to implementation.
• Proficiency in data manipulation, cleaning, and pre-processing for complex unstructured data sets.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to build trust with both internal teams and external customers.

Nice to have

• A deep interest in how technology transforms the legal industry is highly valuable

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance.
• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local hirify.globalns (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week.
• Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
• $2000 annual counseling benefit.
• RRSP matching and RESP contribution.
• hirify.globalversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years.