Lead AI Engineer

Were seeking a pioneering AI Team Lead to join one of the fastest growing legal tech companies in Europe. With an established suite of AIpowered products already serving customers in the market were now expanding our AI capabilities to deliver even more value. This role offers a unique opportunity to establish AI best practices develop generative AI solutions and build agentic systems for our platform.

Reporting directly to the CTO youll initially handle all AI development handson from architecture to implementation. As our AI initiatives grow youll work with the Head of Engineering to build your own team while remaining deeply involved in daytoday coding and technical decisions.

For an AI expert with vision and handson experience in generative AI and LLMs this represents a chance to make a lasting impact on innovative cuttingedge AI products.

Your Challenge and Opportunity in This Role

This is a rare opportunity to shape the AI vision and infrastructure of an entire product ecosystem from the ground up. As the founding AI Engineer youll be both architect and buildertranslating cuttingedge research into realworld impact. Youll define what AIpowered truly means for our users while laying the foundation for a scalable productionready AI function. This role offers unmatched ownership technical depth and longterm growth as we expand our AI capabilities across teams and markets.

Tasks

AI Strategy & Implementation:

• Architect and implement advanced generative AI and LLMbased solutions for our product suite
• Design and develop sophisticated agentic systems that can perform complex tasks autonomously
• Establish best practices for AI development testing and deployment across products

Technical Leadership:

• Initially handle all AI development handson as the primary technical contributor
• Work with our Head of Engineering to build a highperforming AI team as our initiatives expand
• Maintain significant handson coding involvement even while leading the team
• Create clear processes for AI development evaluation and continuous improvement

Crossfunctional Collaboration:

• Work closely with product design and engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities
• Partner with the CTO and leadership on AI roadmap planning
• Translate complex AI concepts for both technical and nontechnical stakeholders

Requirements

Technical Expertise:

• Extensive handson experience developing and deploying generative AI systems and applications
• Deep expertise with large language models (LLMs) and their practical applications
• Experience building agentic systems that perform complex tasks autonomously
• Strong programming skills (Python) and software engineering background

Leadership Skills:

• Ability to work independently as the primary technical contributor handling all aspects of development
• Comfort with handson coding and technical work even after building a team
• Experience mentoring and developing technical talent
• Excellent communication skills for explaining complex AI concepts to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders

Strategic Vision:

• Ability to create and execute AI roadmaps aligned with business objectives
• Experience translating cuttingedge AI research into practical applications
• Problemsolving mindset with focus on delivering user value through AI

Benefits

Foundational Impact Drive our AI strategy and implementation from the ground up

Team Building Start as a handson individual contributor and build your own AI team with our Head of Engineering while staying involved in daytoday coding

Technical Ownership Full ownership of our AI capabilities across multiple products

Growth Environment Work at the cutting edge of generative AI and LLMs

Leadership Visibility Direct CTO reporting line with significant influence on technical decisions

Fully Remote Enjoy the flexibility of working from anywhere
Top Equipment Stateoftheart MacBook plus all the accessories you need
Wellbeing Perks Urban Sports Club membership to support your healthy lifestyle

If youre passionate about pushing the boundaries of whats possible with generative AI and want to lead the technical development of innovative AI products while maintaining handson involvement wed love to hear from you!