Senior AI Research Engineer (Legal AI)

TL;DR

Senior AI Research Engineer (Legal AI): Developing and advancing the Vincent AI platform by integrating cutting-edge LLMs into real-world legal workflows with an accent on advanced information retrieval and agentic infrastructure. Focus on building retrieval systems at scale, designing evaluation frameworks for agents, and ensuring model grounding in trusted legal sources.

Location: Hybrid; must be based in or near Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin, Sydney, or London (office attendance minimum twice per week).

Company

Global leader in legal AI technology empowering legal professionals and law firms to work smarter, faster, and more securely.

What you will do

• Research and optimize retrieval at scale using hybrid sparse/dense embeddings and contextual chunking.
• Develop re-ranking strategies based on legal-specific signals to surface the most authoritative results.
• Build agentic infrastructure for decomposing and executing complex legal tasks with traceability and guardrails.
• Design evaluation frameworks and offline testbeds to measure system performance against legal professional needs.
• Implement grounding and validation mechanisms to ensure model responses are anchored in trusted legal sources.
• Drive the transition of research prototypes into production-ready scalable solutions.

Requirements

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science, ML, AI, or a related field.
• Industry experience in applied AI research or engineering.
• Expertise in information retrieval systems, LLM fine-tuning, or prompt engineering.
• Track record of delivering complex technical projects from ideation to production.
• Proficiency in data manipulation and pre-processing for complex unstructured datasets.
• Must be based in one of the specified office locations to support the hybrid work model.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive and equitable salary with top-tier health and dental coverage.
• Hybrid work environment with a balance of remote and office presence.
• Flexible time off policy and pension contributions.
• hirify.globalversary recognition program for long-term tenure (3, 5, 7, and 10 years).
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.