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AI Researcher

Ivo AI, Inc.· Engineering
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San Francisco$180k - $200kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

AI Researchers push the state of the art in applying LLMs, deep learning, and advanced AI techniques to the legal domain, translating research into features for Ivo’s product.

Responsibilities

  • You'll own a research roadmap end-to-end: identifying the right problems, designing experiments, prototyping, and shipping the winners into production alongside the engineering team.
  • Advance the core AI platform. Design and implement novel approaches to reasoning over long-context legal corpora, contract comparison and redlining, information extraction, and automated drafting and editing.
  • Make our models trustworthy. Conduct research on procedural hallucination detection and resolution, calibration, and explainability. Apply fine-tuning, PEFT, and distillation to improve legal tasks. Explore agentic systems, long-context modeling, and reasoning to move the needle for customers.
  • Build the evaluation infrastructure. Design and maintain datasets, benchmarks, and evals for training and measuring model performance on complex legal text. Define metrics and maintain them.
  • Ship. Collaborate with Engineering and Product to take prototypes from notebook to production, write internal reports, and present findings to technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

  • A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative field — or equivalent industry research experience with a comparable track record.
  • Evidence of exceptional ability — a paper, shipped system, open-source contribution, competition result, or hard problem solved that demonstrates standout capability.
  • Deep, hands-on experience in deep learning research and development, particularly with LLMs. Proficiency with PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
  • Expertise in at least one: agentic systems, reasoning, PEFT, quantization, inference optimization (e.g., speculative decoding), hallucination mitigation, novel DL architectures, or robust evaluation for LLMs.
  • Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Bias toward action: ship usable prototypes quickly and measure outcomes.

Skills

Required:PhD or equivalent research track recordDeep learning / LLMsFrameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow)Agentic systems / reasoning / PEFT / quantization / inference optimizationCommunication

Benefits

  • Competitive Compensation (final details based on experience)
  • Equity
  • Relocation and Visa Support for SF moves
  • Health & Wellness (medical, dental, vision)
  • Flexible Spending & Insurance (HSA, FSA, life insurance)
  • 401(k) Program
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Office Perks (Downtown SF, catered lunch five days a week, premium snacks and coffee, in-building gym, dog-friendly)
Last updated Sep 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Ivo AI, Inc.

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Ivo AI, Inc. is an AI-native platform providing contract review, redlining, and insights for enterprise in-house legal teams.

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