Crosby
Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer
$200K–$300K
New York City · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 16, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping AI/ML-powered products.
About the job
Build and ship production-grade AI features for legal work, bridging research methods and infrastructure with reliable product systems.
What you'll do
- Build and scale RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and infrastructure for RL training and reward evaluation.
- Fine-tune or adapt language models for legal tasks, and develop evaluation and monitoring systems to detect regressions and reward hacking.
- Collaborate with product, backend, and legal experts to deliver and improve end-to-end AI features.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping AI/ML-powered products.
- Deep proficiency in Python and a proven track record of scalable, production-grade systems.
- Familiarity with post-training techniques such as SFT and GRPO, plus hands-on experience with distributed model training, VERL, and vLLM.
- Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, RAG, agentic workflows, and the full ML project lifecycle.
Pay
$200K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
Python, PPO, GRPO, SFT, VERL, vLLM, OpenAI, Anthropic
AI focus
Develop legal AI systems, RAG and agentic workflows, RL training and reward pipelines, model fine-tuning, and evaluation and monitoring for contract review and related tasks.
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