Senior AI Researcher — Legal AI in Production (SF)

Ivo Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Relocation and visa support

Health & Wellness

Job summary

Ivo Inc. in San Francisco seeks an exceptional AI Researcher to push the state of the art in LLMs and deep learning for high-stakes legal text.

You will develop novel techniques, build evaluative benchmarks, and ship production-ready solutions that improve accuracy, explainability, and robustness for contracts and related documents. This is a non-academic role where your research directly informs product features used by top tech and enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related quantitative field or equivalent industry research experience.

Responsibilities

• Own a research roadmap end-to-end: identify problems, design experiments, prototype, and ship into production with engineering.
• Advance the core AI platform: long-context reasoning, contract comparison, information extraction, and automated drafting.
• Make models trustworthy: detection of procedural hallucination, calibration, explainability, and production-ready techniques.
• Build evaluation infrastructure: datasets, benchmarks, and metrics for complex legal text.
• Ship prototypes from notebook to production and present findings to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Deep learning research

LLMs

Communication skills

Action-oriented

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science / related quantitative field

Equivalent industry research experience

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

Job description

Ivo Inc. in San Francisco seeks an exceptional AI Researcher to push the state of the art in LLMs and deep learning for high-stakes legal text.

You will develop novel techniques, build evaluative benchmarks, and ship production-ready solutions that improve accuracy, explainability, and robustness for contracts and related documents. This is a non-academic role where your research directly informs product features used by top tech and enterprise customers.