Senior AI & Low-Code Automation Engineer

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 190,000 - 215,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Job summary

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is seeking a Senior Innovation Engineer to support the AI & Innovation team across Palo Alto, San Francisco, or Los Angeles offices. The role focuses on designing secure, scalable AI and low-code solutions, shipping Harvey workflows, and enabling attorneys and business professionals with innovative automation.

The position reports to the Information Technology Department and requires in-office presence three days a week with some travel.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Legal Studies, Data Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
3–6 years of experience in legal technology, enterprise solutions, knowledge innovation, or a comparable professional services environment.
Hands-on experience building with at least one generative AI platform—Harvey strongly preferred—including prompt design, Assistants/Agents, and workflow orchestration.
Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform, particularly Power Automate and Power Apps; SharePoint Online experience a plus.
Working knowledge of RAG patterns, vector stores, and grounding techniques for legal content.
Comfort with REST APIs, JSON, and integration basics; familiarity with Power BI, SQL fundamentals, and at least light scripting (JavaScript, Python, or similar) is a plus.
Strong facilitation and communication skills—able to stand in front of a room of partners, run a working session, and translate complex systems into accessible language.
Strong grounding in data governance, responsible AI, and information security principles, particularly in a law firm or other regulated environment.
Familiarity with other legal-tech platforms—Lexis+ AI / Protégé, Wendell-type internal chatbots, Centari, Syntheia, Kira, CoCounsel, or similar is preferred.
Prior experience running working sessions, demos, or technology coaching in a professional services environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, and deploy Harvey workflows (Assistants, Vaults, and Workflow Builder automations) in partnership with practice groups across Litigation, Corporate & Financial Services, Asset Management, and other practices.
Develop Power Automate and Power Platform low-code solutions that connect Harvey, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and firm systems of record to eliminate manual steps in attorney workflows.
Build and maintain Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) knowledge bases for firm-approved AI tools, ensuring secure, context-aware outputs grounded in authoritative source material.
Contribute to the firm’s growing library of reusable workflows, prompt patterns, and integration templates so that solutions built for one matter or practice can be rapidly redeployed across the firm.
Apply the firm’s Responsible AI principles—privacy, transparency, accountability, and human oversight—in every build, consistent with Willkie’s ISO/IEC 42001 AI management system.