AI Technologist Engineer

Description

Lowenstein Sandler is a one of the most sophisticated law firms in the United States with over 400 lawyers and 300 business services professionals serving clients from offices in New York Palo Alto New Jersey Utah and Washington DC. Our primary administrative offices are located in Roseland New Jersey where we are consistently ranked among the best places to work. We recruit candidates who seek a collaborative entrepreneurial culture that prioritizes our clients our colleagues and the communities where we work and live. Committed to career development and to an inclusive workplace the firm offers many programs and opportunities for personal and professional growth. We seek professionals for our business services group who share these values.

The AI Technologist / Engineer will design build and operationalize AI-powered solutions that improve the efficiency accuracy and intelligence of legal and business workflows across the firm. Working closely with attorneys business professionals and technology colleagues this individual will identify opportunities deliver measurable outcomes and serve as the firms subject matter expert on the latest AI platforms and developer tooling. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who is equally comfortable prototyping a new AI workflow evaluating emerging platforms and translating complex capabilities into practical firm value.

• Serve as the firms internal expert on generative AI platforms including Anthropic Claude OpenAI ChatGPT Google Gemini and NotebookLM and Microsoft Copilot and various legal point solutions evaluating new capabilities and advising on appropriate use cases.
• Use Claude Code for AI-assisted software development leveraging agentic coding workflows to accelerate delivery across the team.
• Design and implement secure agentic AI frameworks including orchestration of multi-step autonomous workflows tool integration and guardrails to ensure safe auditable and policy-compliant AI operations.
• Design develop and deploy AI-assisted tools and workflows using leading AI platforms and APIs.
• Build and maintain integrations with the firms core systems (e.g. document management practice management intake/conflicts and data platforms) leveraging AI capabilities.
• Develop and maintain context engineering and prompt engineering standards including system prompt design context window management and retrieval augmentation strategies alongside evaluation frameworks and responsible AI governance practices appropriate for the legal industry.
• Apply security-by-design principles to AI implementations including data classification access controls encryption standards and model input/output validation to prevent data leakage prompt injection and unauthorized access to sensitive information.
• Evaluate vendor AI solutions and produce clear build-vs-buy recommendations for leadership.
• Document architectures integration patterns and user guides to ensure firm-wide knowledge transfer and supportability.
• Stay current with the AI landscape bringing forward actionable insights on how emerging capabilities can benefit the firm.

For candidates meeting the requirements the expected base salary is $155000 to $165000. The range provided is the salary that Lowenstein Sandler in good faith believes at the time of this posting that it is willing to pay for the advertised position. Exact compensation will be determined based on individual candidate qualifications and location. Our benefits package includes coverage options for medical dental vision prescription drug life insurance disability FSAs 401K and paid time off.

Disclaimers:
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Lowenstein Sandler LLP is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race color gender sex age religion creed national origin ancestry citizenship marital status sexual orientation physical or mental disability medical condition veteran status gender identity genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.