AI Native Engineer

Legalist is a tech-enabled alternative asset manager that uses proprietary data-driven origination to invest in uncorrelated legal and government-payment assets. The AI Native Engineer will work directly with the co-founder to build AI-powered products and workflows, developing applications, agents, integrations, RAG pipelines, backend services, and production-ready tools while rapidly evaluating and improving model performance.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build new AI products, tools, and features
• Build applications using LLMs and foundation model APIs
• Develop AI agents and multi-step workflows that connect models with internal and external systems
• Build integrations with third-party APIs, internal data sources, and existing software
• Design and implement RAG pipelines, including retrieval, embeddings, vector search, and context management
• Build backend services and APIs to support AI applications
• Prototype new ideas quickly, thoroughly test them, and turn successful prototypes into production-ready tools
• Evaluate models and approaches based on accuracy, latency, cost, and reliability
• Build evaluations and testing processes to measure and improve model outputs
• Stay current on new models, developer tools, frameworks, and AI capabilities