Junior Generative AI Engineer - Remote

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Junior Generative AI Engineer - Remote position with a Global Law Firm located in New York, NY. This is a direct hire opportunity. You will join an internal AI Acceleration Team building bespoke AI solutions for legal work, drawing on software engineering, data science, and deep domain expertise. In this role, you will help prototype, build, test, and deploy LLM-powered products that extract intelligence from complex legal documents. This is a tight-knit, remote-first team that values growth, honesty, and curiosity, where junior engineers are paired with experienced mentors. Responsibilities: Under the guidance of senior engineers, help build, test, and improve LLM-powered document analysis features (extraction, classification, risk flagging) Help clean, structure, and label legal data to power AI systems, building the data pipelines that make models work well in practice Implement bounded components of multi-step AI workflows for legal tasks (e.g., due diligence, contract review) by writing tool integrations, prompt chains, and retrieval logic Write test cases, contribute to automated evaluation pipelines, and help maintain regression suites Participate in cross-functional sessions to understand legal workflows, contribute to acceptance criteria, and iterate based on user feedback and evaluation results Requirements: Some software development experience (internships, co-ops, or substantial academic/personal projects count) Hands-on exposure to LLM/GenAI tools or APIs and some experience working with text data (parsing PDFs or HTML, basic text processing, or using an LLM for extraction or classification) Solid Python skills and comfort with basic SQL Conceptual understanding of how RAG pipelines work, with ideally some hands-on experience Familiarity with at least one LLM API (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) Basic familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and an understanding of how to evaluate generative AI outputs (accuracy, faithfulness, hallucination) Strong communication skills: ability to explain what you've built, ask good questions, and clearly describe problems and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical teammates Desired skills: Experience in a hackathon, open-source project, or fast-paced team environment where you shipped working software quickly A degree (Bachelor's or Master's) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computational Linguistics, or a related quantitative field Exposure to an orchestration framework (LangChain, LlamaIndex) or a vector database (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, FAISS) Curiosity about model-serving infrastructure (vLLM, TGI) or how open-source models are deployed Any exposure to legal tech, compliance tech, or other regulated industries where accuracy and auditability are critical A personal blog, portfolio project, or open-source contribution demonstrating your interest in NLP, information retrieval, or generative AI Any experience with Spark, Databricks, or data pipeline tooling Pay range: $120,000 - $160,000 per year Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position. If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply! Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals. For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10: Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20 years. The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years. Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.) Behavioral Health Platform Medical, Dental, Vision Health Savings Account Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident) Voluntary Term Life Insurance 401K Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities) Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois) For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website. Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.