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Senior AI Researcher

Ivo AI, Inc.· Engineering
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San Francisco$200k - $325kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior AI Researcher focusing on applying LLMs, deep learning, and advanced AI techniques to high-stakes legal domain challenges, translating research into production features.

Responsibilities

  • Own a research roadmap end-to-end: identifying problems, designing experiments, prototyping, and shipping winners into production with the engineering team.
  • Advance the core AI platform: design and implement novel approaches for reasoning over long-context legal corpora, contract comparison and redlining, information extraction, and automated drafting and editing.
  • Make models trustworthy: research procedural hallucination detection and resolution, calibration, and explainability; push frontier techniques into production; apply fine-tuning, PEFT, and distillation for legal-specific tasks; evaluate agentic systems, long-context modeling, and reasoning.
  • Build the evaluation infrastructure: design and maintain datasets, benchmarks, and evals for training and measuring model performance on complex legal text; define metrics.
  • Ship: collaborate with Engineering and Product to move prototypes 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 (paper, shipped system, open-source contribution, competition result, or hard problem solved).
  • Deep, hands-on experience in deep learning research and development, particularly with LLMs; strong working knowledge of PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
  • Expertise in at least one of: agentic systems, reasoning, PEFT, quantization, inference optimization (e.g., speculative decoding), hallucination mitigation, novel DL architectures, or robust evaluation for LLMs.
  • Excellent communication skills to articulate complex findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Bias toward action: ship -> prototype today, measure -> data-driven, prefer working prototype over polished plan.

Skills

Required:Deep learning research and developmentLLMsAgentic systems / reasoningEvaluation methodology for LLMsCommunication

Benefits

  • Competitive Compensation: Final offer based on experience and fit.
  • Equity: Meaningful ownership in a fast-scaling company.
  • Relocation and Visa Support: Relocation assistance to SF and visa/green card support where applicable.
  • Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Flexible Spending & Insurance: HSA and FSA, plus life insurance.
  • 401(k) Program.
  • Commuter Benefits.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Office Perks: Downtown SF office with catered lunch five days a week, premium snacks and coffee, in-building gym, dog-friendly environment.
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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