Senior Software Developer - Knowledge Extraction Team
About The Position
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. 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data, or equivalent practical experience.
- A keen interest in improving your craft, including using AI.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Benefits
- Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance
- Hybrid work environment
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
