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AI Native Engineer

Legalist
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RemoteFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

AI Native Engineer at Legalist, a tech-enabled asset manager. Remote, full-time role focusing on building AI-powered products and workflows, working closely with the co-founder, and delivering production-ready AI solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build new AI products, tools, and features
  • Build applications using LLMs and foundation model APIs
  • Develop AI agents and multi-step workflows that connect models with internal and external systems
  • Build integrations with third-party APIs, internal data sources, and existing software
  • Design and implement RAG pipelines, including retrieval, embeddings, vector search, and context management
  • Build backend services and APIs to support AI applications
  • Prototype new ideas quickly, thoroughly test them, and turn successful prototypes into production-ready tools
  • Evaluate models and approaches based on accuracy, latency, cost, and reliability
  • Build evaluations and testing processes to measure and improve model outputs
  • Stay current on new models, developer tools, frameworks, and AI capabilities

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional software development experience
  • Hands-on experience building applications with LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar
  • Experience building AI agents, tool-calling workflows, or other agentic systems
  • Strong understanding of APIs, backend development, databases, and cloud infrastructure
  • Experience taking software from prototype through production
  • Experience working with financial, legal, or other complex datasets
  • Familiarity with prompt design, context management, model evaluation, and techniques for improving LLM reliability
  • Experience working across a variety of technical projects, ideally for multiple companies or clients
  • Comfortable working independently and figuring things out without a detailed set of requirements
  • Local to New York City and excited about the opportunity to have regular in-person working sessions

Skills

Required:LLM APIsAI agents / tool-calling workflowsBackend developmentProduction software lifecycle
Nice to have:Data / domain familiarity
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Asset management firm that specializes in esoteric private credit assets in litigation and bankruptcy

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