Counsel, Applied Legal Research (Canada)

Centari; Canada; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company at the forefront of AI and legal services. As a transactional attorney, you'll leverage your expertise to shape the future of generative AI applications for leading firms. Collaborate with product, engineering, and customer success teams to enhance a cutting-edge data extraction platform. This role offers a unique opportunity to tackle unsolved AI challenges in document analysis while delivering high-quality work in a dynamic environment. If you're passionate about innovation and eager to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Equity

Comprehensive Benefits

Flexible PTO

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience as a transactional attorney at a top law firm.
• Exceptional technical aptitude and comfort learning cutting-edge systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop expertise to support AI research in transactional law.
• Prompt engineer and fine-tune large language models for legal applications.

Skills

Transactional Law Expertise

Problem-Solving

Prompt Engineering

Legal Reasoning

Communication Skills

Adaptability

Education

J.D. (or equivalent)

Tools

Large Language Models

AI Research Tools

Job description

About Centari

Centari is the Deal Intelligence platform for law and finance. Our agentic model transforms unstructured documents into valuable insights, empowering professionals to forecast, analyze, and negotiate with the full force of their firm's knowledge.

We call it data-driven dealmaking, and it's transforming the economy as we know it.

Today, Centari supports attorneys from global firms across M&A, debt finance, asset management, and real estate. We are backed by top investors in enterprise AI, including former DoorDash board member Jeremy Kranz, Seamless co-founder Andy Appelbaum, Jack Altman, South Park Commons, Recall Capital, and GTMfund.

About the Role

We are hiring an experienced transactional attorney to join our Applied Legal Research team. In this role, you will apply your corporate law background to the frontlines of building generative AI applications for the world's leading firms. You will work closely with Centari's Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams to advance our best-in-class data extraction platform for sophisticated legal work.

This role will be a good fit if you are eager to shape the future of generative AI for legal services through your exceptional problem-solving capabilities, knowledge of transactional law, and bias for action.

What You'll Do

To advance our Deal Intelligence platform, you will:

• Develop subject-matter expertise to support AI research in transactional law

• Prompt engineer and fine-tune large language models for legal applications

• Build proprietary benchmarks to evaluate model performance

• Tackle unsolved AI problems in document analysis and legal reasoning

• Contribute to improving our data extraction capabilities

What You Have

• J.D. (or J.D. equivalent)

• 3+ years experience as a transactional attorney at a top law firm

• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality work product on demanding deadlines

• Exceptional technical aptitude and comfort learning cutting-edge systems

• Proven interest in prompt engineering and leveraging LLMs for legal work

• Ability to effectively communicate with various internal stakeholders and translate complex problems between them

• Ability to define positive outcomes in situations with underspecified success criteria

• A generalist mindset with ability to quickly adapt to new areas of law

• Strong problem-solving capabilities and bias for action

What We Offer

• Opportunity to build at the frontier of AI for knowledge work with a highly engaged user base

• Competitive salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits (health, dental, vision, 401k)

• Flexible PTO

For more information, check out centari.com or find us on LinkedIn.