Experienced Machine Learning Engineer, Doctrine
Spanish Speaking
2-3 days a week in office
Legal AI platform
Posted today
Legal AI platform
201-500 employees
Posted today
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the law more open and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Strong knowledge of machine learning (both classical and deep learning) for data extraction and recommendation, ideally with initial experience working with LLMs
- Experience with natural language search engines and inverted indexes such as Elasticsearch
- A strong interest in artificial intelligence topics
- Motivation to identify, analyze, and bring the latest scientific advancements in the field into production
- Solid Python development skills, with a focus on algorithm design
- Proficiency in both English and Spanish, as you will be working with legal documents in Spanish
What the job involves
- Develop NLP models (machine learning–based or otherwise) to support information search and recommendation within legal documents, with a particular focus on the Spanish language
- Maintain and monitor these models in production
- Design conversational agents to help lawyers across different legal domains by ensuring accurate answers and streamlining drafting tasks
- Collaborate with various profiles — including engineers, product managers, and product designers to identify new opportunities for product development
- Contribute to spreading and consolidating best practices internally, and take part in shaping our Engineering strategy
Application process
- A 30-min intro call with one of our Talent Acquisition Managers to understand your career goals and walk you through what we're building at Doctrine
- A 1-hour conversation with your future manager to dive into the role, team scope and answer all your questions
- One or two technical assessments to evaluate your skills in practice
- An office visit including: lunch with 3 people from different teams to give you a feel for your future colleagues; a values conversation to share our vision; and a meeting with our CEO, Guillaume
- (The process can be adapted to fit your personal and professional constraints if needed.)
Our take
Doctrine was founded to democratise access to French case law, quickly becoming France's leading AI-powered egal intelligence platform. Today, it indexes millions of court decisions, aids over 16,000 legal professionals across France, Italy, and Germany, and offers AI-driven insights.
France’s LegalTech sector is booming relative to the rest of the world, enjoying high growth. Doctrine is performing particularly well within it, high labour costs, and a difficult financial climate for this sector means few legaltech startups make it to Series A funding. This means Doctrine have made it to a neat and potentially highly lucrative market niche, and given its regionally specific expertise it’s not one they’re likely to see threatened by international competitors.
The most popular legaltech tools, like Westlaw Edge and Lex Machina, perform similar productivity-enhancing functions when it comes to document research and case review, so Doctrine is smart to be championing this in France and Europe. However, cautious French regulators still impost restrictions on judicial analytics (particularly around nudge profiling) which may limit certain innovations. That said, Doctrine's expansion into other European jurisdictions could provide it with more regulatory headroom and room to grow.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
34% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2018
$11.4m
SERIES A
Oct 2016
$2.3m
SEED
Total funding: $13.7m
Company HQ
L'Europe, Paris, France
Leadership
Guillaume Carrère
(CEO)Initially worked at the company as VP of Sales and then as Managing Director. They are an investor is several companies, including Faks and Upflow. Former Senior Account Executive at Salesforce.
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