Software Engineer, Legal Prompter - CoCounsel

We are seeking a creative backend engineer to join the team behind CoCounsel. You will help build applications that interact with state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) that deliver cutting-edge and time-saving solutions to attorneys all around the country. CoCounsel is already capable of writing legal research memos, summarizing and reviewing documents, and red-lining contracts, just to name a few capabilities--all in minutes, not days or weeks. And we're just getting started.
As a Software Engineer, Legal Prompter, you will develop Python code as well as English prose prompts to LLMs to help expand CoCounsel's early success. This mix of writing instructions for an interpreter and an LLM is well-suited for someone who can produce reliable backend code, and can also write creative, lucid, and effective prose instructions.

Our ideal candidate is a software engineer who can write high-quality Python, work with APIs (consuming and serving), and also has domain knowledge of the law (JD, legal industry experience, etc.). A legal background is absolutely necessary.

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About the Role:

- Orchestrate LLM-driven experiences that delight our customers
- Develop Python code that interacts with state-of-the-art LLMs
- Write, test, and iterate prose prompts for the LLM that leverage your legal domain knowledge, ensuring delivery of accurate, legally sound, and contextually appropriate responses
- Develop Python code that interacts with data sources & services (APIs, SQL databases, etc.)
- Liaise with legal professionals and other teams at Thomson Reuters to gather and understand requirements
- Integrate the language models into multi-step systems, assessing their performance and making necessary modifications

About You:
- Legal domain expertise. This can mean experience in legal practice, a JD-holder in a "non-traditional" legal career path, a paralegal, or legal industry experience
- One to two years of production level experience in software engineering on an engineering/product team, preferably at a startup
- Proficiency in Python - if Python skills are low, then strong experience in other programming languages is necessary
- Proficiency with APIs and SQL is a major plus
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work both independently and in a collaborative environment
- Creative and clear writing skills
- Experience using large language models through code is preferred (such as model services from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Cohere; and/or open source models such as Llama and Mistral)

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What's in it For You?

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• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

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• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

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