Job Description:
A leading full service international law firm is seeking an AI Engineer for their NY City office to bring AI innovation to the firm. The Artificial Intelligence Engineer will be responsible for developing and implementing cutting-edge AI solutions and models to solve complex problems and drive innovation at the firm.
Responsibilities:
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define AI project use cases, requirements, and objectives, ensuring alignment with overall business goals.
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Conducts research to stay up to date with the latest advancements in generative AI, machine learning, and deep learning techniques and identifies opportunities to integrate them into our products and services. Provides updates and recommendations to Director, Application Services.
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Optimizes existing generative AI models for improved performance, scalability, and efficiency.
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Develop documentation, including technical specifications, user guides, and presentations, to communicate complex AI and related concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Contributes to the establishment of best practices and standards for AI development within the organization.
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Comfortable interacting with business stakeholders and explaining technical issues and approaches to a non-technical audience.
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Provides functional and technical support and enhancements for the firm’s AI solutions.
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Provides technical mentorship and guidance to other team members.
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Creates and delivers end-user training and documentation and provides second-line support to other users.
Requirements:
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Quant degree
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Proficient in Python and have experience with machine learning libraries and frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch,
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Experience building recommendation models.
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Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
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Familiar with cloud-based platforms and services, such as Azure or AWS.
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Demonstrated ability in .NET technologies using C# as well as related modern development languages and frameworks such as .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, REACT, etc.
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Strong SQL skills, the ability to write complex, efficient queries against extremely large data sets is highly desirable.
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Demonstrated ability to develop software/code (following firm standards) directly applicable to technology encompassed in assigned applications.
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Experience with adherence to a Software Development Methodology like SCRUM and DevOps practices and tools like GitHub, Azure DevOps or other such tools and methodologies.
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Good oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills including the ability to effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical personnel.
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A strong background in machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and software engineering is preferred. Experience working with large-scale language models such as GPT-3/4, BERT, Dolly, LLaMA, PaLM2, etc.
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Hands-on experience with LLMs fine-tuning is a plus.
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Experience with natural language processing (NLP) techniques and tools, such as SpaCy and/or NLTK is a plus.
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An understanding of the uses of AI in the field of law
