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Founding Applied AI Engineer

We are building an integrated legal AI system for research, analysis, and drafting. We are working with some of the largest law firms in the US and have seen great traction. It uses retrieval-based LLM agents to replicate a lawyer's workflow and produce output matching the quality of attorney work product.
The next few years will revolutionize how we interact with computers. It's not just chat; it's advanced retrieval, agents, and workflow automation. We're bringing it to lawyers because they deal with textual information daily and deserve better software. VecFlow is looking for a founding applied AI engineer to join us in New York or San Francisco. We are looking for exceptional candidates interested in working at an early-stage startup with an ambitious mission.
We are rethinking how we interact with LLMs, not merely as chatbots but as autonomous systems. You will be at the ground level of this revolution and help build the future of human-computer interaction, starting with legal work.
About the role
As an early engineer at VecFlow, this role offers a unique opportunity to influence the company's direction and build a product from the ground up. The role is based in New York, NY, or San Francisco, CA. We are primarily an in-person first company and offer relocation assistance as necessary.
Responsibilities

• Design and implement agentic LLM workflows to mimic lawyers' workflows, allowing them to use AI tools with multi-step reasoning.                                                                             •  Building guardrails for agent orchestration and stability -- ensuring agents can follow tasks over long iterations, delivering high-quality, long-form outputs.    

• Implement state-of-the-art information retrieval and search systems tailored to legal work and optimized for legal workflows.

• Build production-ready RAG infrastructure -- dense retrieval systems, structured extraction, and large-scale semantic search. • Be excited to build systems from the ground up with high ownership and creativity.

Preferred Skills
•⁠ Strong experience and interest in working with LLMs - prompting techniques, RAG systems, agent frameworks, etc
•⁠ Experience building machine learning or information retrieval systems • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. • Familiarity with our stack (Python, PostgreSQL, Azure/AWS, Vector DBs) • Excited to work at an early-stage startup with high ownership and pace
Recruitment Process
•⁠ ⁠We'll arrange a 15-minute call to introduce ourselves and provide an in-depth overview of VecFlow and the Founding Engineer role.
•⁠ ⁠Then, we will invite you for a technical interview. You'll present past work, answer relevant technical Q and A style questions, and perform a mini live coding assessment. This will be your opportunity to impress us!
•⁠ ⁠Lastly, we'll call you in for a final interview where you'll meet our team and get a glimpse of our everyday activities. This will include a technical walkthrough and a team chat. We give you a decision within three days
Compensation
•⁠ ⁠We provide competitive salaries based on experience and fit with a base salary between $150,000 - $195,000 and equity compensation on par with early hires.
If you have any questions, reach out to founders@vecflow.ai

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