Senior Generative AI Software Engineer, ThoughtRiver
£80-110k
1+ day a week in office (Central London & Cambridge)
Reviews contracts via a contract intelligence engine
Open for applications
Reviews contracts via a contract intelligence engine
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£80-110k
1+ day a week in office (Central London & Cambridge)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make contracts easy to understand for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a Senior Generative AI Software Engineer to help design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art AI models and APIs that drive our products and services
- Need to be passionate about advancing AI technology and eager to shape the future of AI-powered products?
- Need a strong software engineering foundation with hands-on experience in event-driven services and RESTful APIs
- Will require significant experience with generative AI models and a proven ability to deploy these models in production environments
- Require a mindset shift from traditional deterministic engineering toward the creative potential of generative AI, emphasising user centric solutions
- Need experience in prompt engineering and be able to craft effective prompts and fine-tune interactions to ensure generative AI models that produce high-quality, contextually relevant results
- Have experience with frameworks like AG2, Swarms or LangGraph, as well as a history of building robust pipelines for developing, deploying, and evaluating Agentic AI systems, is essential
- Should have knowledge of language models, semantic matching, vector databases, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques
- Need to exhibit excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including product, legal, content, front-end, and back-end engineering teams, to integrate AI technologies into products
What the job involves
- To take a hands-on, proactive approach to ensure successful deployment of AI models, APIs, and user-focused solutions in production environments
- To demonstrate a strong commitment to quality standards and performance benchmarks
- To utilise prompt engineering expertise to enhance model performance and optimise interactions within AI systems
- To showcase software engineering experience, with a track record of delivering LLM-based solutions to production
- To apply excellent problem-solving skills and a creative approach to challenges
Application process
- 1. Apply for position
- 2. Initial interview with COO to ascertain fit with the company and team (Virtual - 30 mins)
- 3. Meet the CTO to discuss role and review technical knowledge (Virtual - 45 mins)
- 4. Undertake technical assessments (Onsite - 60 mins)
- 5. Meet the team (optional)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
ThoughtRiver is a legal tech company that addresses a fundamental problem for in-house counsels and lawyers: you don’t know whether you need to read a contract without reading it. ThoughtRiver’s contract pre-screening technology uses machine learning and legal intelligence to automate the initial scan and analysis of contracts to produce an actionable recommendation on what to do next with the contract – and why.
Developed by ThoughtRiver’s lawyers and its partners who are domain experts, Lexible is a universal contract description framework that uses 1000s of data points to build a detailed picture of legal obligations and rights within any legal agreement. Lexible comes pre-programmed with thousands of questions posed by real lawyers. It works by first deploying a sophisticated language processing (NLP) engine developed in collaboration with Cambridge University. This allows it to understand the meaning of the words within an agreement. ThoughtRiver can then ask and answer thousands of questions according to their Lexible framework to build a detailed picture of the obligations and rights within the agreement. All of this data is then summarised into clear, actionable advice.
It also aims to promote partnerships with ThoughtRiver to legal service providers who can create new sources of income using its services. For example, by configuring the platform to answer specific questions and identify certain risks, legal service providers can allow their clients to review contracts on the ThoughtRiver platform through a sub-account. This review takes minutes, not hours, which creates an opportunity for a profitable and repeatable new revenue stream. The company aspires to make its technology available and accessible to companies around the world. ThoughtRiver works with in-house legal teams, general counsels and law firms.
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Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2020
$10m
SERIES A
Oct 2018
$3.7m
SEED
Total funding: $13.7m
Company benefits
- Life assurance at 4x salary
- Private medical insurance with Aviva
- Employer pension with Scottish Widows
- Additional holiday for long term employees
- Birthday holiday and lunch
Company values
- Shift Left - Innovation means taking leaps and trying new things to learn as quickly as possible. We believe in moving tasks, decisions, and responsibilities closer to the beginning of the process and testing often across every aspect of the business to deliver more effectively and efficiently.
- See around corners - Think ahead, possess foresight and a proactive mindset to take initiative that anticipates challenges, opportunities and trends before they emerge. Our goal is to be ahead of the game for our client’s benefit.
- Own Your Impact - Each individual plays a vital role in the success of the team and the company as a whole. By holding ourselves to high standards and taking responsibility for our words and actions, we foster trust, integrity, and reliability. We empower ourselves and our colleagues to make a positive impact, drive results, and uphold the values of our organisation.
- Shows Passion + Purpose - Passion + purpose = positive impact. We aim to positively impact our colleagues, our clients, our partners and the community through our efforts.
- Seek Forgiveness not Permission - Bold ideas require action. We’re a small team with deep embedded trust that we can deliver for our clients. We empower our teams to take ownership, anticipate needs and focus on proactive measures.
Company HQ
Cambridge, UK
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Leadership
Jennifer Hill
(CEO)Seasoned COO and business leader with experience growing tech start-ups to profitability.
Tim Pullan
(Advisor & Founder)Associate Partner at Cambridge Management Consulting and Advisor at Circuit Medical Ltd. Previously a Partner at Taylor Vinters and was a Member of the ICT Committee at the British Chambers of Commerce.
People progressing
James has been with ThoughtRiver since early 2022. He started as a BDR and now is an Enterprise Account Director looking after key accounts and bring in new business to ThoughtRiver.
John has been with ThoughtRiver since 2018. During that time, he has had many roles from Lead Application Engineer, Team Lead and now looking after DevOps.
Katie has been with ThoughtRiver for just under 3 years, she started as a Customer Success Manager and is now Senior CSM and Account Manager.
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