About the position
We are seeking a creative bilingual backend engineer to join the team behind CoCounsel. You will help build applications that interact with state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) that deliver cutting-edge and time-saving solutions to attorneys in LATAM. CoCounsel is already capable of writing legal research memos, summarizing and reviewing documents, and red-lining contracts, just to name a few capabilities--all in minutes, not days or weeks. And we're just getting started. As a Software Engineer, Legal Prompter, you will develop Python code as well as Spanish prose prompts to LLMs to help expand CoCounsel's early success and localize CoCounsel to the LATAM legal market. This mix of writing instructions for an interpreter and an LLM is well-suited for someone who can produce reliable backend code, and can also write creative, lucid, and effective prose instructions.
Responsibilities
- Orchestrate LLM-driven experiences that delight our customers
- Develop Python code that interacts with state-of-the-art LLMs
- Write, test, and iterate Spanish prose prompts for the LLM that leverage your legal domain knowledge, ensuring delivery of accurate, legally sound, and contextually appropriate responses
- Develop Python code that interacts with data sources & services (APIs, SQL databases, etc.)
- Liaise with legal professionals and other teams at Thomson Reuters to gather and understand requirements
- Integrate the language models into multi-step systems, assessing their performance and making necessary modifications
Requirements
- Highly proficient in written and spoken Spanish
- Legal domain expertise experience in the LATAM legal market
- One to two years of production level experience in software engineering on an engineering/product team, preferably at a startup
- Proficiency in Python
- Proficiency with APIs and SQL is a major plus
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work both independently and in a collaborative environment
- Creative and clear writing skills
- Experience using large language models through code is preferred
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in legal practice
- JD-holder in a 'non-traditional' legal career path
- Courtroom interpreter or paralegal experience
- Strong experience in other programming languages if Python skills are low
Benefits
- Hybrid Work Model: Flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office)
- Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off
- Work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year
- Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs
- Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion
- LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company
- Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually
- Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact
- Competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
- Competitive 401k plan with company match
- Paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave
- Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement
- Access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee
- Access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan
