Senior Engineer, Legal – Canada Remote

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential global life sciences organization seeking a Senior Engineer for their Legal team. This is a Canada-based remote role where you'll design and deploy AI-powered solutions that transform legal and compliance workflows across a multi-billion dollar enterprise.

Working at the intersection of software engineering, data science, and legal operations, you'll apply deep technical expertise in large language models, agentic AI, and modern AI infrastructure to solve high-impact legal problems at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

• Partner with legal stakeholders to translate workflows into technical solutions—conduct discovery with attorneys and compliance professionals to understand workflows, identify automation opportunities, and deliver solutions that legal teams trust and adopt
• Architect and build AI-powered legal applications for contract review, legal research, regulatory analysis, and compliance workflows using LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic AI frameworks
• Develop and optimize document processing pipelines—build scalable ingestion, parsing, chunking, embedding, and indexing systems for legal content to power intelligent search and analysis
• Ship production-grade AI features using Python and/or TypeScript, LLM APIs, orchestration frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines from prototype through deployment and monitoring
• Design evaluation and quality frameworks—build automated evaluation pipelines, test sets, and quality metrics specific to legal AI outputs, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and defensibility
• Implement data security controls, access management, audit logging, PII redaction, and data residency compliance for applications handling privileged and confidential legal content
• Lead and mentor legal team members in developing no-code AI solutions; serve as the technical bridge between legal and engineering teams
• Partner with IT, Data & AI teams to design and deliver scalable AI solutions aligned with enterprise architecture and governance standards

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related technical field (Master's or advanced degree is a plus)
• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, data science, or machine learning engineering with a track record of shipping production applications
• Production experience with large language models including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG architecture, agent/tool-use development, and evaluation frameworks
• Strong programming proficiency in Python with experience in AI/ML libraries and frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, or equivalent); proficiency in TypeScript or Java is a plus
• Demonstrated proficiency leveraging AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate software solution development in production environments
• Hands-on experience with modern AI infrastructure including vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant), cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), API design, and containerized deployment (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience designing data pipelines and document processing systems for unstructured content at scale (parsing, OCR, entity extraction, classification)
• Demonstrated interest or experience in legal, compliance, or regulatory domains—prior work in legal tech, contract analytics, regulatory technology, legal operations, paralegal experience, law school coursework, or JD

Preferred Experience:

• Building or deploying AI solutions in regulated industries (life sciences, healthcare, financial services, legal)
• Agentic AI patterns—multi-step autonomous workflows with human-in-the-loop oversight, tool calling, and structured outputs
• Enterprise AI governance and responsible AI practices including model evaluation, bias testing, explainability, and compliance with frameworks such as the EU AI Act

Travel: 10-25% for meetings and conferences

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening to understand your background and career goals. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your candidacy to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client organization directly—all communication should flow through our recruiting team to ensure a coordinated and professional process.

Pay

Pay via Get A Job.ai: $150,000-$180,000 CAD annually. This role is also eligible for bonus and incentive compensation.

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