Research Engineer

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Job Description

Do you want to build production GenAI systems used daily by legal professionals globally?

Are you interested in shipping AI products end to end?

Are you excited by complex, high-precision problems where quality truly matters?


A fast-growing LegalTech AI scale-up is applying GenAI across the full intellectual property lifecycle. Their platform is used by IP teams globally to automate drafting, litigation workflows, and document analysis.


With over £50m in funding from institutional investors, and rapid revenue growth into eight figures, the company is scaling aggressively.


The role

They are hiring AI Engineers to design, build, and deploy production-grade GenAI systems in a high-stakes legal environment. This is a deeply hands-on engineering role focused on shipping reliable systems used by real customers.


Key responsibilities

  • Build and deploy LLM-powered features across drafting, prosecution, and litigation workflows
  • Design and maintain RAG pipelines over large, complex legal and technical corpora
  • Own systems from prototype through to production
  • Focus on robustness, evaluation, and reliability in precision-critical use cases
  • Collaborate closely with full-stack engineers and domain experts


What they’re looking for

  • Strong AI research background with top publications or a strong software engineering background
  • Excellent production engineering fundamentals regardless of background
  • No data-science-heavy profiles
  • Comfortable being scrappy and hands-on in a fast-scaling environment
  • Ideally 2+ years of experience, but open to exceptional graduates or more senior engineers
  • Infrastructure or deployment experience (AWS, Terraform) is a bonus
  • Happy working onsite five days per week


Tech stack

  • Python, FastAPI
  • React, TypeScript
  • Postgres
  • AWS, Terraform


Compensation & details

  • up to £185k base + equity (flexible for exceptional profiles)
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Standard pension
  • Five meals per week provided in office
  • Location: City of London
  • Working policy: in-person, five days per week


Interested? Please apply below.

Location:
London
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Engineering

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