Counsel, Applied Legal Research (Singapore)

Centari; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company at the intersection of law and AI. As a transactional attorney, you'll leverage your legal expertise to enhance a cutting-edge Deal Intelligence platform, collaborating with product and engineering teams. This role offers the chance to shape the future of generative AI in legal services while working in a hybrid environment that promotes flexibility and innovation. If you're a proactive self-starter with a passion for problem-solving and a keen interest in AI, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible PTO

Hybrid remote/office culture

Qualifications

• Significant legal experience at a reputable law firm.
• Proven interest in leveraging LLMs for legal work.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Transactional Law

Problem-Solving

Prompt Engineering

Legal Reasoning

AI Research

Education

LL.B. or J.D.

3+ years PQE

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

• LL.B., J.D., or equivalent
• Singapore qualified lawyer (or other recognized common law jurisdiction) with minimum 3 years PQE.
• Significant legal experience at a reputable local or international law firm. Experience with debt finance, funds, and complex M&A transactions is a plus.
• Exceptional technical aptitude. While no coding experience is required, you must have a high level of comfort with learning cutting-edge systems.
• Proven interest in prompt engineering and leveraging LLMs for legal work.
• A generalist mindset and adaptability to quickly learn new areas of law.
• As an independent contractor, the ideal candidate is a proactive, solutions-oriented, and independent self-starter who is comfortable operating with limited supervision in a fast-paced environment.
• Some collaboration time with US East Coast or West Coast from Monday to Thursday.
  
  

What We Offer

• Build at the frontier of AI for knowledge work, with a highly engaged user base from top firms.
• Hybrid remote/office culture.
• Flexible PTO.
  
  

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