Applied AI Engineer
About The Position
Join Fenwick's AI Innovation team to build and deploy AI-powered solutions across the firm. The role turns business opportunities into production-ready AI applications, agents, and workflows that improve how attorneys and business professionals work. The engineer partners directly with stakeholders to identify high-impact use cases, design practical solutions, and deliver systems with measurable results. The position leads AI projects from concept through production deployment, integrating AI capabilities with internal systems, knowledge repositories, and business applications. It also helps advance the firm's AI capabilities by evaluating emerging technologies, developing reusable patterns, and establishing engineering practices. The role works across Innovation, IT, Knowledge Management, and Business Operations, and supports adoption through communication, documentation, demonstrations, and stakeholder engagement.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience building and deploying business applications.
- Experience developing applications using modern programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar technologies.
- Experience integrating APIs, data sources, and enterprise systems.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for AI technologies and their practical application.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building AI-powered applications using large language models and modern AI platforms.
- Familiarity with agent architectures, retrieval systems, orchestration frameworks, or workflow automation platforms.
- Experience with cloud platforms and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience evaluating and improving application performance, reliability, and quality.
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders throughout the product development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications, agents, and workflow automations to address business challenges.
- Partner with attorneys and business teams to understand needs, define requirements, and translate opportunities into working solutions.
- Prototype concepts, validate their value, and evolve successful solutions into production-ready systems.
- Identify opportunities to improve productivity, knowledge access, client service, and operational efficiency through AI.
- Lead technical implementation of AI projects from concept through production deployment.
- Integrate AI capabilities with internal systems, knowledge repositories, and business applications.
- Develop reliable, secure, maintainable solutions that can scale across the organization.
- Monitor solution performance and continuously improve quality, accuracy, and user experience.
- Evaluate emerging AI models, frameworks, tools, and platforms for practical application within the firm.
- Contribute reusable patterns, frameworks, and components that accelerate future development.
- Help establish engineering best practices for agent development, evaluation, deployment, and operations.
- Stay current on advancements in AI, agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI technologies.
- Collaborate with Innovation, IT, Knowledge Management, and Business Operations teams.
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.
- Support solution adoption through documentation, demonstrations, and stakeholder engagement.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor on AI implementation opportunities.
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Life insurance
- Health Savings Accounts
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Wellbeing benefits
- Discretionary bonus may be available to eligible employees based on performance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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