Founding AI Engineer

About Norm Ai
Norm Ai, the leading Legal & Compliance AI company, has a client base with a combined $30 trillion in assets under management. By turning legal code into AI code, Norm enables enterprises to move faster and more comprehensively in their legal and compliance processes with reliability and trust.

Norm's platform combines frontier AI, proprietary legal reasoning systems, and embedded legal and regulatory expertise.

We have recently raised more than $140 million, backed by Blackstone, Bain Capital, Vanguard, Citi, New York Life, TIAA, Coatue, Craft Ventures, Henry R. Kravis (KKR co-founder), and Marc Benioff (Salesforce CEO).

Norm Ai pioneered Legal Engineering, the process that empowers lawyers to build and supervise domain-specific AI agents with Norm's proprietary suite of no-code software tools. We hired dozens of lawyers from premier U.S. law firms and trained them as Legal Engineers, who specialize in Large Language Model powered legal workflows.

Norm Ai technology is deployed inside many of the largest and most consequential institutions in the world. The company is growing quickly and hiring across all teams.

About Norm Law
Norm Law is the first AI-native full-service law firm for global institutional clients like Blackstone (see recent coverage of our Blackstone partnership. Legal Engineering, a discipline pioneered by Norm Ai, where lawyers develop legal AI agents, powers Norm Law to deliver faster, more precise, and more consistent legal services. With purpose-built AI agents completing first passes of work, Norm lawyers supervise, review, and focus on what matters most: strategic judgment and expert advice.

Norm Law and Norm Ai, together, are building Legal AGI.

This Role
As a Founding AI Engineer, you will work side-by-side with partners and associates. You'll build fast prototypes, test them directly in live workflows, and push successful systems into our platform. The role blends full stack engineering, AI, and data science. It requires fluency in production codebases, speed in iteration, and depth in applying LLMs to solve real problems.

This is a hands-on role at the intersection of AI, reasoning, and high-stakes decision-making. You'll work embedded with domain experts (e.g., lawyers, analysts, compliance officers) to observe workflows, identify inefficiencies, and prototype AI systems that transform how expert reasoning is performed.

Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer, ML engineer, or data scientist
• Strong programming skills in Python, proficiency in Docker and data storage technologies such as Postgres and Redis
• Willingness to work with frontend technologies (Typescript, React, etc.) to bridge the gap between research ideas and the productization of new initiatives
• Experience in AI/ML infrastructure and tooling
• Interest in becoming a legal and compliance domain expert and working closely with professionals in the field
• Strong reading, writing, and quantitative skills, as well as a data-driven approach to problem solving

Skills & Experience - Pluses

• Previously built one off analytical systems in trading, research, or other data-heavy fields.
• Interest in working directly with non-technical experts to translate their logic into code.
• Familiarity with and an eagerness to apply the latest AI research
• Experience applying traditional ML systems and processes in the context of state-of-the-art LLMs
• Experience deriving insights from PDFs and other unstructured or semi-structured data types
• Experience with context engineering and memory in the context of AI agents
• Experience modeling uncertainty in ML systems

Comp & Benefits
$220,000-$285,000 base + employee equity (level dependent)
The range displayed in this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salary for this position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including job-related skills (as uncovered during the interview process), experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed here reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity or benefits. We offer a competitive salary along with equity compensation. Our comprehensive benefits package includes a 401(k) plan with an employer match. Employees enjoy top-tier insurance coverage, encompassing health, dental, hospital, accident, and vision plans.

We embrace a flexible hybrid model, typically in-office 4-5 days per week. For candidates needing to relocate to NYC, we provide relocation reimbursement. You'll thrive in our fast-paced learning environment where professional growth is constant.

If you're interested in the role but aren't sure whether you're a good fit, we'd still like to hear from you.
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