Applied AI Engineer

Fenwick & West LLP; Santa Monica; On-site; PHP 7,910,000 - 11,864,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life Insurance

Health Savings Accounts

Flexible Spending Accounts

Wellbeing

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Fenwick & West LLP’s AI Innovation team is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications, agents, and workflows that deliver business value. You will partner with attorneys and business teams to identify opportunities, prototype concepts, and scale successful solutions into production-ready systems.

The role emphasizes collaboration across IT, Knowledge Management, and Operations, with a focus on measurable improvements in productivity and client

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and deploying business applications.
• Experience developing applications using Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar technologies.
• Experience integrating APIs, data sources, and enterprise systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Demonstrated curiosity and enthusiasm for AI technologies and their practical application.
• Experience building AI-powered applications using large language models and modern AI platforms.
• Familiarity with agent architectures, retrieval systems, orchestration frameworks, or workflow automation platforms.
• Experience with cloud platforms and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience evaluating and improving application performance, reliability, and quality.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders throughout the product development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications, agents, and workflows that solve real business challenges.
• Partner directly with attorneys and business teams to understand needs, define requirements, and translate opportunities into working solutions.
• Rapidly prototype concepts, validate value, and evolve successful solutions into production-ready systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve productivity, knowledge access, client service, and operational efficiency through AI.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

APIs & integration

AI technologies

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder collaboration

Agent architectures

Performance optimization

Job description

Job Description Summary

Join Fenwick's AI Innovation team to build and deploy the next generation of AI-powered solutions across the firm. This role is focused on turning real business opportunities into production-ready AI applications, agents, and workflows that improve how attorneys and business professionals work. You will partner directly with stakeholders to identify high-impact use cases, design practical solutions, and deliver systems that drive measurable results. The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer with a builder mindset, strong product instincts, and a passion for applying emerging AI technologies to solve meaningful business problems.

Job Description

Build AI Solutions That Deliver Business Value

Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications, agents, and workflow automations that solve real business challenges. Partner directly with attorneys and business teams to understand needs, define requirements, and translate opportunities into working solutions. Rapidly prototype concepts, validate value, and evolve successful solutions into production-ready systems. Identify opportunities to improve productivity, knowledge access, client service, and operational efficiency through AI.

Own Solutions End-to-End

Lead the technical implementation of AI projects from concept through production deployment. Integrate AI capabilities with internal systems, knowledge repositories, and business applications. Develop reliable, secure, and maintainable solutions that can scale across the organization. Monitor solution performance and continuously improve quality, accuracy, and user experience.

Advance the Firm's AI Capabilities

Evaluate emerging AI models, frameworks, tools, and platforms and determine their practical application within the firm. Contribute to reusable patterns, frameworks, and components that accelerate future development. Help establish engineering best practices for agent development, evaluation, deployment, and operations. Stay current on advancements in AI, agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI technologies.

Collaborate Across the Organization

Work closely with Innovation, IT, Knowledge Management, and Business Operations teams to deliver impactful solutions. Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences. Support adoption of solutions through documentation, demonstrations, and stakeholder engagement. Serve as a trusted technical advisor on AI implementation opportunities.

Desired Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and deploying business applications.
• Experience developing applications using modern programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar technologies.
• Experience integrating APIs, data sources, and enterprise systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Demonstrated curiosity and enthusiasm for AI technologies and their practical application.
• Experience Experience building AI-powered applications using large language models and modern AI platforms.
• Familiarity with agent architectures, retrieval systems, orchestration frameworks, or workflow automation platforms.
• Experience with cloud platforms and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience evaluating and improving application performance, reliability, and quality.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders throughout the product development lifecycle.

Benefits and Compensation Details

At Fenwick, we believe that our partners and employees are our most important asset. Helping you and your families achieve and maintain good health - physical, emotional, and financial - is the reason we offer a comprehensive benefit program. We provide benefits to eligible employees under plans such as Healthcare, Life Insurance, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Wellbeing. Except as otherwise required by law, temporary employees are generally not entitled to these benefits. The anticipated range for this position is: $126,000 - $189,000 Depending on the role, the actual base salary offered may depend upon a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and if applicable, the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. A discretionary bonus for eligible employees may also be available based on performance. Additional information about employee eligibility for benefits and discretionary bonus will be made available upon request.

Our Story

For more than five decades, Fenwick & West has helped some of the world’s most recognized companies become, and remain, market leaders. From emerging enterprises to large public corporations, our clients are leaders in the technology, life sciences and cleantech sectors and are fundamentally changing the world through rapid innovation. Having worked alongside such progressive and cutting edge companies for so long, our culture has come to reflect the entrepreneurial spirit of our client base. Unlike traditional law firms, we move at our clients’ speed and have earned the reputation as a go-to law firm for growing companies that need insightful, strategic counsel to help tackle the challenging issues that arise when the law cannot keep up with their pace of innovation. With the same passion for excellence and innovation reflected in our client base, our firm is making revolutionary changes to the practice of law through substantial investments in proprietary technology tools and processes. Our clients demand-and deserve-new ways to receive best-in-class legal services more effectively. At Fenwick, we are proud to be shaping our legal services to do just that. We are proud to have been named one of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area for the twelfth year. Fenwick & West LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and, as such, conducts all employment-related activities without regard to unlawful consideration of race, religion, color, marital status, national origin, age, sex, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, gender, genetic characteristics or any other classification protected by applicable local, state or federal employment discrimination laws.

At the discretion of the recruiting department, we accept submissions by agency recruiters when a fee agreement has been established between the firm and the agency.

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