Career Opportunities at Junior
Junior is a fast-growing AI platform for patent law firms and corporate IP teams. We’re building the next generation of tools to automate patent drafting, make IP professionals more productive, and drive real impact in the legaltech world.
AI Engineer (Remote)
Location: Remote
Posted:
Position Summary:
We are seeking an AI Engineer to strengthen the core of our patent-drafting platform, Junior. In this role you will design, develop and refine the large-language-model (LLM) pipelines, prompt libraries, and agent-framework that enable attorneys to draft patents faster and more consistently. You will collaborate with patent practitioners and engineers to deliver secure, high-performance AI functionality tailored for patent workflows.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the AI/ML architecture behind Junior: fine-tune LLMs, build prompt chains, prompt stacking/sequencing, and agent-framework for patent-drafting tasks (e.g., claims generation, enabling‐disclosure review).
- Work with patent practitioners to capture domain logic, formatting rules, style preferences and convert them into machine-understandable prompts, libraries and agent behaviours.
- Optimize AI pipelines for reliability, latency, scalability and secure deployment (including multi-tenant isolation, data-segregation, encryption, audit logging).
- Evaluate performance of AI outputs: quality of drafts, error rates (e.g., missing subject matter, unsupported claims), integration of feedback loops. Use metrics and user feedback to drive improvement.
- Integrate the AI engine with the Microsoft Word plugin environment, DMS (document management systems), and backend services. Ensure seamless workflow inside Word environment.
- Stay current with developments in large language models, prompt engineering, agent frameworks, legaltech and IP automation. Apply new methods to enhance product capability (e.g., newer LLMs, retrieval‐augmented generation).
- Collaborate with product, UX/design and QA teams to deliver features, run A/B tests and measure client impact (e.g., time saved, reduction in review cycles).
- Ensure compliance/security: work with DevOps/IT to enforce SOC 2/ISO 27001 standards, encryption, data isolation and audit trails.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML or related field.
- 3+ years of experience building production AI/ML systems, with hands-on experience in LLMs, prompt engineering, fine‐tuning or similar.
- Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or equivalent) and familiarity with model frameworks.
- Understanding of agent frameworks, prompt sequencing/prompt stacking, context window management.
- Experience working with API integrations, backend services, document workflows.
- Familiarity with deploying secure multi-tenant SaaS applications (data isolation, encryption, audit logging).
- Strong analytical mindset: ability to use metrics/data to evaluate model performance and drive improvements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience in legal-tech, especially in IP/patent space, or with drafting workflows.
- Experience integrating AI tools with Microsoft Word or Office ecosystem.
- Knowledge of patent drafting, claims structure, specification enablement, office action responses.
- Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001.
Additional Opportunities at Junior:
- Solutions Engineer (Remote)As an Account Manager for Junior, you will be responsible for managing the lifecycle of our law-firm and corporate IP clients, from onboarding through renewal. You will act as the main point of contact for client firms using Junior, drive adoption of our patent-drafting AI platform, identify expansion opportunities, and ensure customer satisfaction and retention.
- AI Engineer (Remote)As an Account Manager for Junior, you will be responsible for managing the lifecycle of our law-firm and corporate IP clients, from onboarding through renewal. You will act as the main point of contact for client firms using Junior, drive adoption of our patent-drafting AI platform, identify expansion opportunities, and ensure customer satisfaction and retention.
- Account Manager (Remote)As an Account Manager for Junior, you will be responsible for managing the lifecycle of our law-firm and corporate IP clients, from onboarding through renewal. You will act as the main point of contact for client firms using Junior, drive adoption of our patent-drafting AI platform, identify expansion opportunities, and ensure customer satisfaction and retention.