Experienced/Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Doctrine
Squad Distribute
2+ days a week in office
Legal AI platform
Open for applications
Legal AI platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the law more open and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Note: Previous professional experience in law is not required, but a willingness to learn and develop expertise in understanding legal documents is important
- Strong knowledge of Machine Learning (both classical and deep learning) for data extraction and recommendation, ideally with some first-hand experience with LLMs
- Experience with natural language search engines and inverted indexes such as Elasticsearch
- Solid understanding of MLOps challenges, with a strong motivation to grow in this area
- A keen interest in artificial intelligence topics
- Desire to identify, analyze, and deploy the latest scientific advances in production
- Strong Python development skills, with a focus on algorithm design
- Proficiency in French, as you will be working with legal data in French
- Research shows that women in particular tend not to apply for a role when they don't meet every single requirement. To put your mind at ease: this job description is a guide, nothing more
- If Doctrine interests you, we'd love to hear from you!
What the job involves
- We are looking for a confirmed/senior Machine Learning Engineer to help us build the first legal AI platform
- Join a squad dedicated to revolutionizing how legal professionals advise clients and businesses across France and Europe
- A high-impact product squad responsible for secondary legal sources and private documents
- These are complex challenges where you will also contribute to embedding GenAI at the core of our products
- Develop NLP models (whether based on Machine Learning or not) to assist with information search and recommendation within legal documents, in particular
- Maintain and monitor these models in production
- Design conversational agents to accelerate lawyers’ work across various areas of law, ensuring accurate responses and facilitating drafting tasks
- Collaborate with different types of profiles, including engineers, product managers, and product designers, to identify new product development opportunities
- Participate in internal knowledge sharing and consolidation of best practices; contribute to the development of our Engineering strategy
- Extras of the role 👁
- Like all engineers at Doctrine, you will join one of our cross-functional chapters — in this case, the Web chapter. Within this chapter, you will contribute to internal projects aimed at improving our processes and shaping our long-term vision. The chapter meets every week to:
- Share knowledge: keep track of the state of the art, review scientific papers, continuous improvement, best practices, etc
- Propose improvements: experiment with new tools, suggest new processes to implement
- You will also take part in recruitment: all individual contributors meet candidates through technical assessments or interviews
Application process
- Our hiring 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
$11.5m
SERIES A
Oct 2016
$2.3m
SEED
Total funding: $13.8m
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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