AI Engineer

Company Description

Who we are

We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.

Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.

You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world-class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.

Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.

Job Description

The role

This role is a key contributor in the Data & Analytics, AI team:

• Daily work is mainly focused on  Natural Language processing (NLP).
• This role will lead a range of data analytics efforts, including monitoring and improving the performance of our Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models
• Collaborate with legal technology advisors, business departments, innovation lab, finance team and work in the data science lab
• Further develop Clifford Chance's generative AI solutions

Who you will work with

The candidate's main role is to develop and deliver applications for internal organisational and service-based usage. It will involve collaborating with other IT teams, internal product development teams and Data & Analytics, AI team members for the architectural design and implementation of these applications. The candidate will be actively involved not only in application design but also in the realisation of those designs as applications for the cloud. 

What you will be responsible for

• Develop and products as both on-premises and cloud-based applications in Python, whilst ensuring they align to Application, Enterprise, Security architecture as well as the whole-of-Government policies and framework
• Collaborate on creating architectural designs for on-premises and cloud-based applications, including relevant and documentation to effectively explain architecture design concepts and solutions to various level of stakeholders
• Recommend new software development methodologies, design patterns and approaches to continually improve product delivery as part of the Legal Technology Solutions
• Apply knowledge of Agile software development and DevOps to ensure best delivery of applications, ensuring focus is always kept on maintainability and scalability.
• Identify potential and emerging technologies relevant to innovation for the Data Science Lab and wider Legal Technology Solutions group
• Contribute to the execution of data science use cases on a need basis 

Qualifications

Your experience

Skills & Experience (at least 3 years in all technologies listed below)

• Azure AI Ecosystem: AI Services, GPT models, vector search, Cognitive search, Document Intelligence, Azure queues
• Advanced Python proficiency (including multithreading, document processing, packaging)
• Theoretical understanding on LLM driven applications
• Experience with deep learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Hands-on experience with using and configuring Azure OpenAI language models
• Strong software engineering skills (high code quality, debugging, Azure CI/CD)
• Experience with load testing of generative AI applications
• Solid understanding of Machine Learning
• Hands-on experience with data exploration and building machine learning models
• Document code and document detailed designs
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Experience in working with Databricks and Spark

Professional Expertise

Qualifications

• BSc or greater in Data Science, Computer Science, Math or Statistics

Written and Verbal Communications

• Highly developed written communication skills and capable of producing global and sensitive communications to a varied audience at all levels in both Practice Areas and Business Services.
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal communications skills – some form of customer-facing interaction or consulting experience is a plus.

Core Competencies

Analytical Thought and Problem Solving

• Makes decisions that solve the immediate problem and prevent it from occurring again. 
• Prepares for potential problems and contingencies in case things go wrong. 
• Takes prompt action to resolve problems quickly. 
• Makes pragmatic and practical decisions about how centrally driven initiatives should be implemented locally. 
• Uses all relevant sources of information, including the team and other colleagues, to generate solutions.

Communicating and Influencing

• Takes account of different needs and concerns in order to effectively communicate with others.
• Communicates effectively with the team through structured meetings and reviews.
• Resolves conflict and delivers feedback in an assertive and transparent way.

Commitment and Self-Motivation  

• Remains positive even if progress is slow and solutions are diluted. 
• Is open to learning new skills. 
• Demonstrates a drive towards continual personal growth and development.
•  Learn about and champion best practices in code, architecture & processes.
• Contribute to the architecture and development direction of the team to ensure quality code is written and excellent products are built 

How we will support you

From your first day with us, you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and development your skills and knowledge. From formal training, informal coaching and mentoring through to skills-based and technical training and on the job learning. 

Additional Information

Equal opportunities statement

At Clifford Chance, we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.

We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age.  This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.

We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.

Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm. 

Find out more about our inclusive culture here