Head of Applied AI for Scalable Legal Tech

Relativity; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 312,000; Full time

Job summary

Relativity is seeking a senior leader to guide the Applied Science team in building AI-native legal technology solutions. You will lead a team of experts, shape architectures, and own AI system readiness from problem framing through production monitoring to ensure dependable, defensible outputs.

The role requires a strong background in applied AI/ML, production deployment, and the ability to translate complex technical nuances into decisions for stakeholders and customers.

Qualifications

• A master's or PhD in computer science or another quantitative discipline (or equivalent professional experience), and at least 6 years in applied AI/ML, including at least 1 year as a people leader.
• Deep applied AI/ML and deployment engineering experience: you've built production-ready AI systems and owned them through their production lifecycle, partnering with engineering teams to keep them running reliably.
• Fluency with modern generative AI as a component of larger systems, and sound judgment about what it can and cannot do reliably.
• Machine-learning rigor, grounded in data understanding: careful evaluation, error analysis, and the statistical thinking to draw only the conclusions your data supports.
• Strong software-engineering judgment and programming skill.
• An ownership mindset that extends beyond your immediate team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of applied scientists: hire, coach, set direction, and develop people toward their best work.
• Set the technical and scientific bar. The work stays hands-on: you'll shape architectures, review designs and evaluations, and dig into hard problems alongside your team, close enough to the science to lead by example.
• Own AI system readiness end-to-end, from problem framing through evaluation, error analysis, efficacy studies, and production monitoring, so that what ships is dependable and defensible.
• Choose the right problems. Current examples range from agentic assistants that extend what a legal professional can do, to large-scale review and analysis that must stay reliable across hundreds of thousands of documents per matter. You'll help decide where we invest.
• Partner with product, engineering, design, customer-facing teams, and the legal experts on the team to take ideas from proof-of-concept to production at scale.
• Communicate with precision to your team, to leadership, and to customers: translate technical nuance into decisions people can act on, and carry the customer's voice back into the work.
• Represent Relativity at industry conferences, events, and with customers.

Skills

Algorithms

Data Science

Natural Language

Predictive Analytics

Project Management

Reinforcement Learning

Research Development

Science

Statistical Models

Team Leadership

Education

Master's or PhD in computer science or quantitative discipline

Job description

Relativity is seeking a senior leader to guide the Applied Science team in building AI-native legal technology solutions. You will lead a team of experts, shape architectures, and own AI system readiness from problem framing through production monitoring to ensure dependable, defensible outputs.

The role requires a strong background in applied AI/ML, production deployment, and the ability to translate complex technical nuances into decisions for stakeholders and customers.