Senior AI Engineer - Production AI for Legal Services

Sweet James, LLP; Newport Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sweet James Accident Attorneys seeks a Senior AI Engineer to own AI features end to end, from learning processes to production. You will build systems that read and extract from documents, pull facts from records, and run agents that draft routine work for staff to approve.

You will report to the Lead AI Engineer and own delivery within an architecture designed for rapid, high-quality output. Expect collaboration with case teams and fast, iterative development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software with real users.
• LLM APIs, prompt design, tool use, retrieval, and evaluation.
• Strong Python or TypeScript/Node and SQL tech stack; REST APIs and cloud deployment.
• Able to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Ship production AI features including extraction, classification and routing.
• Integrate features with Salesforce/Litify, Microsoft Graph, Zoom, Twilio, Retell, DocuSign.
• Build evaluation sets and tests to measure model changes on accuracy, cost, and speed.
• Deploy services as containers on Azure and monitor them.
• Work with intake and litigation staff to automate workflows and document systems.
• Document systems so the team can operate them.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/Node

SQL

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

Webhooks

Git

Docker

Azure

Tools

Salesforce

Litify

Azure

Job description

Sweet James Accident Attorneys seeks a Senior AI Engineer to own AI features end to end, from learning processes to production. You will build systems that read and extract from documents, pull facts from records, and run agents that draft routine work for staff to approve.

You will report to the Lead AI Engineer and own delivery within an architecture designed for rapid, high-quality output. Expect collaboration with case teams and fast, iterative development.