Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter faster and more securely.

We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.

Summary:

We are currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer AI to join our Knowledge Extraction Team.

The Senior Software Engineer AI is a hands-on technical leader responsible for building operating and evolving the systems that turn large volumes of semi-structured legal documents into structured trustworthy legal data. Reporting to the Development Manager this role focuses on delivering reliable secure and scalable AI-enabled pipelines and services that process caselaw across many jurisdictions at a scale of millions of documents and tens of millions of citation relationships.

You will work closely with partners across editorial and legal data teams Data Engineering and Platform Engineering to turn real problems in legal information into production-grade solutions. This role owns the full lifecycle of what you build from design and implementation through monitoring iteration and long-term support.

What youll work on:

- Design build and operate backend services and data pipelines that extract classify and resolve information from semi-structured legal documents at scale.

- Build and operate LLM-powered workflows (batch classification prompt design and calibration retrieval and model integration) using providers such as OpenAI and AWS Bedrock.

- Improve the accuracy and coverage of core capabilities like citation recognition citation resolution and treatment detection including work across multiple jurisdictions.

- Work with large heterogeneous document sets and curated evaluation sets to measure model quality and drive it up over time.

- Ensure solutions are observable reliable secure and cost-efficient with clear monitoring and operational ownership (e.g. Datadog).

- Operate in the cloud (AWS: Batch Lambda ECS RDS/Postgres S3 and search/vector stores such as Vespa) with solid CI/CD practices.

- Contribute to and uphold responsible AI standards including privacy security legal accuracy and audibility given the sensitivity of legal data.

- Collaborate with cross-functional and non-technical partners (including legal editors) to translate ambiguous problems into clear technical designs and shipped solutions.

- Act as a technical mentor and thought partner within the team helping raise the bar for engineering quality and delivery.

What you may have:

- 4 years of experience in software engineering backend data engineering or AI systems development.

- Hands-on experience delivering production-grade systems that integrate data APIs and complex workflows.

- Strong proficiency in Python. Experience with Ruby is an asset (some of our services are Ruby-based).

- Experience working with semi-structured or heterogeneous data (documents JSON nested or variant records): parsing extraction classification and entity resolution.

- Experience with AI/ML or LLM-powered systems (e.g. prompt design orchestration retrieval model integration or evaluation).

- Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) SQL and processing data at scale.

- Solid understanding of system design reliability observability and operational best practices.

- Ability to work effectively with non-technical and domain stakeholders and translate business needs into technical solutions.

- Experience operating in environments with security privacy or compliance constraints.

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Data or equivalent practical experience.

- A keen interest in improving your craft including using AI.

What you will find here:

Compensation is one of the main components of Clios Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.

Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:

• Competitive equitable salary with top-tier health benefits dental and vision insurance

• Hybrid work environment with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver Calgary Toronto Dublin London New York City and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week.

• Flexible time off policy with an encouraged 20 days off per year.

• $2000 annual counseling benefit

• RRSP matching and RESP contribution

• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3 5 7 and 10 years

*Our salary bands are designed to reflect the range of skills and experience needed for the position and to allow room for growth at Clio. For experienced individuals we typically hire at or around the midpoint of the band. The top portion of the salary band is reserved for employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio. Those who are new to the role may join below the midpoint and develop their skills over time. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.

Diversity Inclusion Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility

Our team shows up as their authentic selves and are united by our mission. We are dedicated todiversity equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included valued and enabled to do the best work of their careers wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives skills backgrounds and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our culture at a Human and High Performing AI company meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our recruitment AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. However weve built our systems to ensure that a human always reviews AI-generated output and we never make automated hiring decisions.

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