AI Engineer – Gurgaon
About S&A Law Offices
S&A Law Offices is a full-service law firm headquartered in Delhi NCR. The firm has 300+ professionals, including experienced lawyers (with advocacy expertise and dual qualified professionals), chartered accountants, company secretaries, patent and trademark agents, engineers, industry experts, and specialized paralegal staff. With strategically located offices across Gurugram, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad and associate offices across India, the firm is fully equipped to provide legal services on a pan-India basis to both domestic and international clients. S&A practice groups have been broadly divided into the following practice groups: Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), Litigation, Corporate and M&A, Restructuring and Insolvency, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Taxation (Direct and Indirect), Customs & Trade, Real Estate and Energy.
Profile Overview
We are seeking a skilled AI Specialist / Developer to drive the innovation and deployment of Generative AI solutions tailored for the legal sector. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain production-grade applications powered by state-of-the-art Large Language Models—specifically Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and leading open-source models.
You will bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI technologies and the specialized needs of legal practice, automating workflows such as contract analysis, legal research, document synthesis, and automated drafting with strict adherence to accuracy, security, and confidentiality.
Key Responsibilities
AI & LLM Application Development
- Design, build, and deploy custom applications using Claude (Anthropic API) and OpenAI APIs (GPT-4/GPT-4o), tailored for legal workflows.
- Implement advanced prompt engineering, structured JSON outputs, system instructions, and tool/function calling.
- Develop conversational assistants, legal document summarizers, and automated contract review tools.
RAG & Knowledge Retrieval
- Build and optimize RAG pipelines to index and query large repositories of legal documents, statutes, case law, and internal law firm knowledge bases.
- Work with vector databases to enable highly accurate semantic search with precise citation tracking.
Domain-Specific Customization & Quality Control
- Tailor AI models to handle legal terminology, formatting standards, and domain-specific edge cases.
- Implement rigorous evaluation, benchmarking, and hallucination-mitigation frameworks to ensure high precision, compliance, and reliability required for legal deliverables.
- Ensure strict data privacy, confidentiality, and enterprise-grade security standards across all AI pipelines.
Collaboration & Integration
- Collaborate with legal teams, partners, and paralegals to translate complex legal requirements into actionable AI features.
- Integrate AI services into existing legal management tools, practice management systems, or custom firm web applications.
- Experience developing Autonomous Agents or multi-agent orchestrations for multi-step reasoning tasks.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Experience: Minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience developing applications with Large Language Models (LLMs).
- Legal Domain Expertise: Prior experience working within a law firm, corporate legal department, or LegalTech company strongly preferred.
- LLM & API Mastery: Deep expertise with Anthropic Claude (handling long context windows, vision capabilities, prompt caching) and OpenAI APIs (Assistants API, function calling, embeddings).
- Programming Languages: Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript / Node.js.
- Frameworks & Orchestration: Experience with frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom agentic workflows.
- Vector Databases & Search: Hands-on experience with vector search engines and hybrid search architectures.
- Backend & Cloud Development: Experience with REST APIs, FastAPI, microservices, and modern cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Familiarity with existing LegalTech solutions (e.g., Harvey, Legora etc.) and document management systems.
- Knowledge of fine-tuning techniques (LoRA, QLoRA) for domain-adapted models.
- Basic understanding of legal privileges, client data handling, and compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, ISO).
