Senior AI/ML Engineer

About the role

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. As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. Cooley Innovation embraces a culture of customer service excellence, and all members of the department are expected to advance this mission. To that end, the Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning Engineer will play a key role in building, deploying, and operating enterprise scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions across Azure, AWS, and other cloud and hybrid platforms. This role is highly hands on and execution focused, combining strong software engineering practices with applied AI and ML expertise to deliver secure, scalable, and high performing solutions that support the firm’s business and technology objectives.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production grade AI and ML solutions across Azure, AWS, and other cloud platforms
• Implement end to end AI application pipelines including data ingestion, prompt engineering, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
• Collaborate closely with engineering, data, and business teams to translate requirements into practical AI and ML implementations
• Write high quality, scalable, and maintainable code for AI and ML workloads
• Optimize performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of cloud based AI and ML services
• Integrate AI and ML solutions with enterprise data platforms such as data lakes, data warehouses, APIs, and streaming systems
• Support AI solution lifecycle management including versioning, prompt iteration, evaluation, and production support
• Apply security, compliance, and data privacy best practices in all AI and ML implementations
• Contribute to technical design discussions and provide guidance on AI and ML implementation patterns
• Stay current with advancements in AI, ML, and cloud technologies and apply them pragmatically
• All other duties as assigned or required

Requirements

• After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
• Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
• Ability to travel, as required
• 5+ years directly applicable experience (e.g., building and deploying AI and ML solutions)
• Hands on experience developing AI and ML solutions on Azure and or AWS
• Strong proficiency in Python for building and operating LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows
• Experience integrating LLM applications with enterprise data sources, APIs, and retrieval systems (RAG)
• Hands on experience building