Staff Engineer

About Robin AI

Robin AI is on a mission to revolutionize the legal industry by simplifying contracts and making law accessible to everyone. We utilize cutting-edge machine learning and contract software, enhancing traditional legal services and bringing together experts in engineering, AI, and law. Robin AI has recently raised $26m in Series B funding and has seen an impressive 5x revenue growth in the last 12 months.

We're looking for passionate, resourceful and collaborative people to join Robin. If you're motivated about leveraging technology to make essential business services more accessible, come join us!

About this role

We are seeking an innovative Staff Software Engineer to scale our systems that empower LLMs to interact with external, custom data sources. To reach a seamless customer experience, our systems need to be faster and more accurate and your role will be to lead the architecture for this effort.

What you’ll do

• Lead, design and implement the architecture for our LLM-based systems from the ground up

• Work with our AI Research team to optimise search and retrieval results for our custom data sources

• Support our efforts to improve our LLM-based system’s performance for our custom domain, including fine-tuning and/or pertaining LLMs, creating efficient agents networks, etc.

• Expand concepts like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to encompass heterogeneous data types (images, tables, relational data, etc.)

• Collaborate with product teams to rapidly prototype and deliver innovative solutions

Qualifications

• Extensive Python/ golang/ rust programming experience

• Strong background in machine learning, search & retrieval research

• Proven experience developing software utilising LLMs (OAI, Anthropic, Mistral etc.) and SLMs (Llama, Phi etc.)

• Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable search systems and algorithms

• Experience with distributed data processing and large-scale system architecture

• Familiarity with search algorithms and information retrieval concepts such as indexing, ranking, query understanding and RAG

• (preferred) Experience working with research teams to enhance search quality

• (preferred) Experience building large scale knowledge bases

• (preferred) Experience with cross-modal data integration (text, images, structured data)

Compensation at Robin AI

• Salary: 200,000-350,000 $ depending on experience

• Generous Equity package: When you help build Robin AI, everyone deserves to be an owner.

• Please Note: If your salary expectations look a little different to that outlined, we’d still be keen to hear from you if this is a role that excites you and one that you think you could really excel in.

Robin AI cannot offer sponsorship in the US but we can provide visa transfer/extension.

Benefits at Robin AI

At Robin AI, we put humanity first - we believe a great product is inextricably linked to a great internal community.

We’re a quickly growing, cross-functional team that values supporting each other's development. As part of the team, you can expect:

• 15 days PTO, excluding national holidays, cultural leave, and birthday leave

• Medical Insurance

• Dental Insurance

• Vision Coverage

• Long-term Disability

• Life Insurance

• 401k Retirement

• Flex spending and HSA

• Technology to enable you to work seamlessly from the office or home

• Focus on continual learning and development

Robin's flexible work model aims to meet the needs of our diverse employee community by making work more flexible, connected, and inclusive. Depending on the role and needs of the team, Robin employees have the flexibility to work from home 2/3 days per week.

Robin is deliberate about the culture we are building and are committed to creating an inclusive environment that attracts the best talent from diverse backgrounds. Whether it’s helping curate the Robin Spotify playlist, discussing gender equality in tech, or taking a meditation break with our holistic health plan, we want you to find your space within the Robin community.

From our offices in Lower Manhattan, New York, USA you’ll have access to all of the WeWork amenities including co-working space, bike lockers, pool tables, table tennis, free barista-made coffee and free beer in the evenings.

Diversity, equity and Inclusion at Robin AI

We want to break diversity, inclusion and equality barriers within the tech industry. In building our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring, and welcome applications regardless of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, education, opinions, nation of origin, languages spoken, age, pregnancy and maternity, or veteran’s status. To request reasonable accommodation, we encourage you to communicate any reasonable accommodations you may need to your recruiter as you move forward.

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