AI Software Engineer

Hirex Hire (pronounced hire by hire) is a Chicago-based recruiting and talent consultancy that integrates with companies short-term to provide long-term talent solutions. We take a seat in our client’s everyday operations to understand their people goals, gaps, and challenges. We then develop and implement the processes and technologies to execute a sustainable and scalable talent plan.

We partner with companies expecting or experiencing high growth which need to hire at scale or fill a critical role rapidly. Our clients are not looking for quick-fix placements but are thoughtfully building a hiring strategy to scale their businesses.

Headquarters:
Chicago, IL

Company Size: 1000+

What They Do:
Our client is a PE-backed SaaS company at the forefront of legal technology, specializing in productivity and risk management software for small to large law firms and their employees globally. They offer a connected ecosystem of solutions to drive innovation across many aspects of a firm.

The Generative AI Innovation team is transforming the way our client leverages their data for competitive advantage. As an AI Engineer on this team, you will consult and collaborate with numerous engineering and non-engineering teams to design and develop GenAI features and solutions for both our client s market products and internal processes. You will function as a company GenAI expert, helping to fully leverage the ever-expanding capabilities of this set of technologies.

This is your chance to be a key member of a pioneering team with a market-leading company!

This role is hybrid to the Denver, CO area OR New York City area.

• Collaborate with development teams to design and develop innovative GenAI
  -based products and features.
• Collaborate with non-engineering teams at Litera to leverage GenAI technologies and techniques to help develop solutions that improve the internal processes at the company.
• Research, evaluate, and document new technologies as they appear on the market, functioning as a source for expert level knowledge of generative AI and other new technologies.
• Socialize new technologies throughout the company.
• Function as an evangelist for leveraging GenAI to responsibly benefit the company and their clients.
• Coach and mentor both developers and others to help develop GenAI skills and knowledge.
• Write clean, maintainable code that is extensible with minimum number of defects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (PM, QA) to complete tasks.
• Manage individual task priorities, estimates, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Demonstrate knowledge of software and security best practices (i.e., object oriented design patterns, OWASP Top 10, SOLID design principles)

Within 1 month, you will:

• Establish relationships with members of the GenAI innovation team.
• Become familiar with our client s product offerings.
• Begin technology research tasks.

Within 3 months, you will:

• Collaborate with team members on development tasks.
• Produce documentation and evaluation of new technologies and their potential value.
• Communicate with other groups in the organization to evaluate the possibility of leveraging GenAI to address current process challenges and inefficiencies.

Within 6 months, you will:

• Collaborate with other team members to design and develop robust features and products using GenAI and other new technologies.
• Translate product and feature ideas into technical designs and development tasks.
• Conduct sessions and webinars to disseminate new technology knowledge throughout the Engineering department.
• Define new opportunities for leveraging GenAI to improve our client s products and organizational processes.

• 3+ years of software development experience with strong competence in backend development
• 1+ years of ML/AI development experience including competence with:
  Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, LLM fine-tuning, Embeddings/vectorization/semantic similarity, RAG
• 3+ years of experience with the following technologies: .NET/.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Web/REST APIs, Python, ideally with Lang Chain/Lang Graph
• 2+ years of experience with the following technologies: SQL Azure (preferred) or SQL Server, Postgre
  
  SQL (preferred), Unit testing frameworks (i.e., Unknit, MSTest)
• 2+ years of experience with the following tools:
  Git Hub, Jira / Confluence, Microsoft Visual Studio Code (preferred) or Microsoft Visual Studio
• Education in Computer Science or Software Engineering (or related experience)
• Strong visioning and problem solving skills
• Independent thinker, collaborative teammate
• Excellent at multi-tasking and able to handle competing priorities

• Experience with PyTorch, Tensor Flow, scikit-learn
• Competence with random forest, histogram gradient modeling
• Experience with semantic agent development using Semantic Kernel and/or competence using Git Hub Copilot

• Supportive Company Culture
• Global, Dynamic, and Diverse Team
• Comprehensive Benefits Package (health insurance, retirement…