Senior AI Data Engineer
About Cooley AI
Cooley AI is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Cooley LLP. The frontier development arm of the leading technology law firm in the world. Our mission is to bring the best-in-class practices from the technology field into the legal domain to help lead our firm and the legal industry into the AI era. All employees of Cooley AI are employees of Cooley and are seconded to Cooley AI.
Position summary
As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. The Senior AI Data Engineer is a senior technical individual contributor within the Data Products function, responsible for building and maintaining the AI infrastructure layer that powers the firm's AI-powered data applications on the Northstar Lakehouse. Working as a peer to the Senior Data Application Engineer, this role is responsible for the intelligence layer beneath the application: the RAG pipelines, embedding infrastructure, vector search implementation, LLM integration patterns, and AI feature observability that make AI-powered legal intelligence products reliable, performant, and trustworthy in production. The Senior AI Data Engineer brings production AI engineering depth to a greenfield AI application build, operating at the intersection of data engineering, applied