Innovations and AI Solutions Engineer

The Innovation and AI Solutions Engineer position is part of the firm's Innovation Department. This position will be responsible for developing, optimizing and growing the firm's corpus of innovation and AI solutions for both practice and enterprise side use cases, as well as optimizing data collection and flows across these solutions. The role will support our attorneys and staff with software development, low/no-code solutions, and data initiatives. The Innovation and AI Solutions Engineer is a self-directed, people-oriented employee who is comfortable supporting the development and data needs of the organization, including clients, attorneys, practice groups and administrative teams., * Support innovation projects by facilitating and participating in discussions, meetings with management and department groups, developing business processes, implementing data integrations and recommending best practices on the effective use of data and data analytics tools.

• Build and maintain innovation and AI solutions alongside optimal data API and pipeline architectures.
• Design, build and implement machine learning models, including the development of AI Models and prompts for various applications.
• Collaborate with business users and technical teams to support and improve how data is collected, analyzed and reported throughout the organization.
• Analyze users needs to determine business and data requirements, effectively applying technology to meet the firm's strategic objectives.
• Assemble and manage large, complex data sets that meet business and technical requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, and improving infrastructure within assigned projects and data systems.
• Build system infrastructure and processes for the efficient extraction, transformation, loading and integration of data to and from a wide variety of data sources using SQL, Power BI and Azure technologies.
• Develop and/or apply analytics tools that utilize data pipelines to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, billing analytics, case outcomes, and other key business and legal practice performance metrics.
• Ensure firm and client data security across multiple office locations, data centers, vendors and applications.
• Develop data visualization and reporting tools to effectively convey meaningful insights from complex and diverse data sets.
• Leverage statistics and computational techniques in problem solving.
• Be familiar with common NLP and machine learning techniques.
• Research and use applicable models in creative problem solving.
• Work with GitHub and software version control.
• Demonstrate the ability to efficiently and smartly document code and end-to-end processes.
• Implement models in a production environment via custom API's and enterprise solutions. such as Azure.

• Extensive experience and working knowledge with SQL and relational databases, including query authoring, database management, and creating/maintaining large data stores in SQL and cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
• Experience building and optimizing API's and data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with structured and unstructured datasets.
• Ability to learn new tools and coding languages where required.
• Ability to organize tasks and priorities under minimal supervision.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data, data integrations and processes to solve specific business problems and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Experience developing processes that support data transformation, integrations, data structures, metadata, dependency and workflow management.
• A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information responsibly.
• Experience with AI/ML data preparation including feature engineering, data preprocessing, and dataset versioning for machine learning workflows.
• Knowledge of data bias detection and mitigation techniques to ensure AI models are fair and representative across different legal contexts.
• Experience with vector databases and embeddings for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications.

Technological Proficiency

• Expertise in applying the following technologies:

• SQL Server, T-SQL, SSIS & SSRS, Stored Procedures
• DataWarehousing experience - ETL & ELT
• PowerBI, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
• Excel / PowerQuery
• Programming and scripting languages: Python, R, C++, Julia, Javascript, SQL
• API integration and development tools and scripting
• Extensive experience working with a variety of data file formats, such as JSON, XML, SQL

• Additional skills that would be highly advantageous include:

• PowerShell
• Regular Expression (Regex)
• VBA, MS Access & Excel
• Documentation & Process Mapping
• Dynamic visualization tools, such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Domo, etc.
• Experience developing and applying machine learning models using Python, R, SQL and Azure Machine Learning
• Experience integrating legal industry, line-of-business applications, such as SharePoint, Aderant Financial System, Salesforce.com/CRM, NetDocs/DMS
• Large Language Model Integration: Experience with OpenAI API, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or similar
• Embedding Models: Familiarity with sentence transformers, OpenAI embeddings, or domain-specific legal embeddings

• Law firm experience a plus., * 4+ years of experience in a Data Engineer/DataOps-DevOps role.
• Bachelor's degree and/or graduate degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Analytics, Information Systems or equivalent discipline.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and related Microsoft data management and integration technologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred

• AI/ML Data Preparation Certification or equivalent coursework in machine learning data engineering.
• Experience with legal technology platforms and understanding of legal workflow requirements.
• Knowledge of data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA) as they apply to AI systems in legal contexts.

The primary location for this job posting is in Palo Alto, but other locations may be listed. The actual base pay offered will depend upon a variety of factors, including but not limited to the selected candidate's qualifications, years of relevant experience, level of education, professional certifications and licenses, and work location. The anticipated pay range for this position is as follows

In-Office or Remote 2 Locations 105K-158K Annually Mid level In-Office or Remote 2 Locations 105K-158K Annually Mid level The Innovations and AI Solutions Engineer develops and optimizes AI solutions, manages data flows, implements machine learning models, and collaborates with users on data analysis and reporting. The summary above was generated by AI, Palo Alto, New York, San Francisco: $116,875 - $158,125 per year. Austin, Boston, Boulder, Century City, Delaware, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and all other locations: $105,400 - $142,600 per year.

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