Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYC

Highlights

• Build and deploy AI systems for legal analysis, drafting and research.
• Embed with law firms to prototype hero workflows on complex case records.
• Turn successful deployments into repeatable patterns for legal market.

What they offer

• Equity
• Relocation assistance

Ideal candidate

Customer-obsessed builder with 5+ years shipping high-stakes systems who thrives embedding with senior legal teams, moving fast from prototype to production and turning field learnings into scalable patterns.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering, ML engineering, or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in financial services or adjacent regulated industries
• Owned complex AI or data-driven systems end-to-end, from scoping through production adoption, in environments where errors carry real consequences
• Write and review production-grade code across backend and frontend systems using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
• Deployed systems powered by LLMs or generative models and understand model behavior, evaluation, and guardrails
• Communicate clearly across engineering, product, risk, compliance, and executive stakeholders
• Apply systems thinking with high execution standards, turning incidents and failures into improved operating standards
• Stay calm and decisive when delivery is urgent, ambiguous, and high-stakes
• Experience with legal technology, legal services, compliance-heavy workflows, or professional services helpful