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    AI Researcher, Legal Compliance

    San Francisco, California IT and Legal TechnologyFull time $185,000 to $250,000 base salary

    Connect machine learning research with legal reasoning, building ways to test and improve the behaviour of AI systems.

    The role

    Design experiments exploring how AI systems respond to legal rules and competing obligations. You will build evaluation environments, training pipelines and runtime controls, working with legal specialists to ground the research in practical legal situations. The remit includes owning projects through publication and releasing benchmarks or tools that others can use to assess results.

    What you will need

    At least one year of research or machine learning engineering experience, alongside a relevant degree or equivalent practical experience. Strong Python and modern machine learning skills are required, with evidence of work in AI safety, alignment or evaluation. Legal training or experience assessing model based judges would be useful. The detailed brief requires US work authorisation without sponsorship.

    What is on offer

    • A full time, office based San Francisco role, with attendance five days each week.
    • Base salary is $185,000 to $250,000, with equity offered separately and responsibility for developing original research.
    • Connect Legal Partners is a Paraform recruiter.
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