Drimva

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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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)