Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Junior Generative AI Engineer

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
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Base Salary

$120k - $160k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Help build, test, and improve LLM-powered legal document analysis features for extraction, classification, and risk flagging.
  • Clean, structure, and label legal data and help build data pipelines that support AI systems.
  • Implement bounded components of multi-step AI workflows, including tool integrations, prompt chains, and retrieval logic.
  • Write test cases, contribute to automated evaluation pipelines, and maintain regression suites.
  • Gain exposure to model selection, token budgets, caching strategies, output filters, PII redaction, and production AI reliability practices.
  • Collaborate with lawyers, engineers, data scientists, and product partners to understand workflows, define acceptance criteria, and incorporate feedback.

Requirements

  • Some software development experience through internships, co-ops, or substantial academic or personal projects, including hands-on exposure to LLM or generative AI tools or APIs.
  • Solid Python skills, comfort with basic SQL, and some experience working with text data such as PDFs or HTML.
  • Conceptual understanding of RAG pipelines and familiarity with at least one LLM API, such as OpenAI or Anthropic.
  • Basic familiarity with AWS or Azure and an understanding of generative AI evaluation concepts including accuracy, faithfulness, and hallucination.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical teammates and explain technical work, questions, problems, and trade-offs.
  • Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or a vector database is a plus.
  • Preferred experience includes Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, FAISS, vLLM, TGI, Spark, Databricks, data pipeline tooling, retrieval systems, NLP, information retrieval, knowledge graphs, ontologies, semantic reasoning, legal technology, or regulated industries.
  • A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computational Linguistics, or a related quantitative field is nice to have.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment.
  • Dedicated senior engineer mentor for at least the first six months.
  • Structured 90-day onboarding covering the technology stack, legal domain fundamentals, and AI evaluation practices.
  • Regular pair-programming sessions and thorough, constructive code reviews.
  • AI safety and bias training covering non-deterministic failures, prompt injection, LLM bias, and responsible AI practices.
  • Clear progression framework from Junior to Mid-Level to Senior with regular check-ins and increasing ownership opportunities.
  • Comprehensive benefits package including health care benefits.

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