Hybrid Lead Engineer – Full Stack Developer, Legal Automation, AI

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About the role

  • Lead Engineer / Full Stack Developer at legal tech AI startup focused on document intelligence and machine learning. Collaborate with CTO to design and implement core automation platform.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement document intelligence pipelines for contract parsing, data extraction, and document classification
  • Build and fine-tune LLM-based systems for legal document analysis, clause identification, and obligation extraction
  • Develop NLP models for entity recognition, relationship extraction, and semantic understanding of legal text
  • Create and curate training datasets from Australian legal documents (conveyancing contracts, leases, facility agreements)
  • Integrate AI capabilities into the company's product suite via well-designed, reliable APIs
  • Design evaluation frameworks to benchmark model performance against legal expert baselines
  • Collaborate with conveyancing and legal domain experts to validate AI outputs for accuracy and trustworthiness
  • Stay current with advances in document AI, transformer architectures, retrieval-augmented generation, and fine-tuning

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in machine learning, NLP, or AI engineering with production deployment experience
  • Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Hugging Face Transformers)
  • Experience building production ML systems including model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs — prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG architectures, and evaluation
  • Understanding of document processing, OCR, and information extraction techniques
  • Experience with cloud ML infrastructure (AWS SageMaker, or equivalent)
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals — clean code, testing, version control, CI/CD
  • Based in or willing to relocate to Sydney or Melbourne, Australia

Benefits

  • Legal AI
  • Machine Learning
  • Full Stack Development
  • Core Platform Automation
  • Document Intelligence Pipelines
  • Contract Parsing

Job title

Lead Engineer – Full Stack Developer, Legal Automation, AI

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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