Senior Generative AI Engineer

Genesis10 • New York, NY

7d • Remote

About The Position

Genesis10 is seeking a Senior Generative AI Engineer for a direct hire opportunity with a Global Law Firm. This role is part of the AI Acceleration Team and reports to the Data Science Manager. The engineer will work with a team of engineers, data scientists, and legal domain experts. The primary focus is on owning the full lifecycle of LLM-powered products, from prototyping to production deployment. The engineer will design, build, and operate AI systems to extract intelligence from legal documents, manage multi-step agent workflows, and achieve accuracy improvements within real-world latency and cost constraints.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional experience building and deploying AI systems, with at least 1-2 years focused on LLM/GenAI applications in production.
• Deep experience with document-heavy NLP: extraction from complex layouts (PDFs, tables, scanned documents), entity recognition, and structured output generation.
• Proven ability to design and optimise RAG pipelines and prompt architectures for accuracy, cost, and latency in production.
• Strong Python engineering skills, with clean, tested, production-ready code.
• Familiarity with at least one LLM orchestration framework (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or equivalent) and at least one vector database (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, or equivalent).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure preferred) for deploying and monitoring LLM-backed services, including CI/CD, containerisation, and observability tooling.
• Experience designing systematic evaluation methodologies for generative AI (automated evals, golden test sets, faithfulness/hallucination metrics).
• Ability to own a workstream end-to-end: scope it, build it, evaluate it, ship it, and clearly communicate tradeoffs and results to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines, code review, version control, and shipping behind feature flags.
• A genuine interest in legal work is essential.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a startup or high-velocity AI team where you shipped frequently and wore multiple hats.
• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
• Vector databases, retrieval systems, or knowledge graphs experience.
• Familiarity with model-serving infrastructure (vLLM, TGI, Triton) and GPU-aware deployment.
• Domain experience in legal tech, compliance tech, or other regulated industries where accuracy and auditability are non-negotiable.
• Published research or significant open-source contributions in NLP, information retrieval, or generative AI.
• Experience with knowledge graphs, ontologies, or semantic reasoning over structured legal data.
• Experience with Spark or Databricks and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Own production AI systems end-to-end: Design, build, deploy, and monitor LLM-powered document analysis pipelines (extraction, classification, risk flagging) that serve lawyers daily, meeting defined latency SLAs and accuracy benchmarks.
• Transform legal data into structured, high-quality datasets that power AI systems.
• Design and ship agent workflows: Architect multi-step, multi-agent systems for complex legal tasks (e.g., due diligence, contract review, regulatory analysis) with robust state management, tool calling, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
• Define evaluation and governance frameworks: Build golden test sets, automated eval pipelines, and regression suites. Implement guardrails (prompt firewalls, output filters, PII redaction) to ensure safety and regulatory readiness.
• Optimise cost and performance: Manage token budgets across model providers, implement caching and batching strategies, and make data-driven build-vs-buy decisions on model selection (API-served, open-source vs. proprietary).
• Collaborate with lawyers and product to translate ambiguous legal requirements.

Benefits

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20 years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior