Innovations and AI Solutions Engineer (AI)

Location: Primary location: Palo Alto, United States; hybrid or remote work schedule. Other listed locations include New York, San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Century City, Delaware, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.

Salary: $116,875–$158,125 per year in Palo Alto, New York, and San Francisco; $105,400–$142,600 per year in other listed locations. Discretionary year-end merit bonus may be available.

Company

hirify.global is a legal advisor serving technology, life sciences, growth enterprises, venture firms, private equity firms, and investment banks worldwide.

What you will do

• Build, maintain, and optimize innovation and AI solutions for legal practice and enterprise use cases.
• Design data APIs, pipelines, integrations, warehouses, and ETL/ELT processes across diverse data sources.
• Develop and deploy machine learning models, prompts, NLP applications, embeddings, and RAG solutions.
• Collaborate with attorneys, business users, management, and technical teams to define requirements and improve data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Create analytics, visualization, and reporting tools for customer acquisition, operational efficiency, billing, case outcomes, and legal practice performance.
• Automate manual processes, improve infrastructure, document end-to-end workflows, and protect sensitive firm and client data.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in a Data Engineer or DataOps/DevOps role.
• Bachelor’s or graduate degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or an equivalent discipline.
• Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, SSIS, SSRS, stored procedures, data warehousing, ETL/ELT, and Power BI/DAX.
• Experience building APIs and data pipelines, processing large structured and unstructured datasets, and managing data transformations and integrations.
• Experience with AI/ML data preparation, feature engineering, preprocessing, dataset versioning, bias mitigation, vector databases, embeddings, and RAG applications.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to work independently and handle confidential information responsibly.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure Machine Learning, OpenAI API, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, sentence transformers, or legal embedding models.
• Experience with legal technology platforms such as SharePoint, Aderant, Salesforce, or NetDocs.
• Knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA as applied to AI systems in legal contexts.
• AI/ML data preparation certification, law firm experience, PowerShell, Regex, VBA, MS Access, Tableau, or similar visualization tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with attorneys, practice groups, administrative teams, clients, and technical stakeholders.
• Opportunities to support innovation across a global legal organization with offices in the United States, China, and Europe.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Performance-based discretionary year-end merit bonus may be available.