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EvenUp · 11 hours ago

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$260K/yr - $390K/yr

12+ years exp

EvenUp is on a mission to close the justice gap using technology and AI, empowering personal injury lawyers and victims. They are seeking a Principal Machine Learning Engineer who will define the technology roadmap and lead innovations in Document AI and Conversational AI to transform legal technology.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)LegalLegal TechMachine LearningSoftware

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Help define and drive the technical vision at EvenUp, identifying the most impactful opportunities in generative AI and ensuring the company remains at the forefront of the rapidly evolving Document AI landscape

Invent and deliver the next generation of Document AI and Conversational AI, enabling robust understanding, reasoning, and generation across diverse legal and medical documents, as well as natural, accurate, and context-aware interactions with users through conversational interfaces

Lead research-to-production innovation in:

Information Extraction & Reasoning: scalable multi-document entity/relation extraction, knowledge graph construction, and long-context reasoning

Generative Workflows: producing reliable, high-quality legal and medical documents with deep structural and semantic fidelity

Conversational AI: building advanced dialogue systems that empower legal professionals to interact with our platform, retrieve insights, and generate documents through natural language conversations

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): multi-hop retrieval, reasoning chains, and verifiable generation at scale

Evaluation & Trust: systematic benchmarking, reliability, factuality, and risk assessment of LLMs in high-stakes legal and medical domains

Efficient Training & Adaptation: parameter-efficient fine-tuning, distillation, multi-modal integration, and domain-specific pretraining strategies

Shape EvenUp’s ML strategy and technical roadmap, working hand-in-hand with product, engineering, and leadership to ensure our Document AI capabilities directly drive company growth and customer impact

Act as a company-wide thought leader in generative AI, providing strategic advice to executives and influencing not just what we build, but how we prioritize and compete

Mentor and elevate the entire ML organization, fostering a culture of deep technical rigor, creativity, and excellence

Qualification

Machine LearningLarge Language ModelsGenerative AIDeep LearningPythonPyTorchTensorFlowInformation ExtractionConversational AIEvaluation & TrustThought LeadershipMentoring

Required

12+ years of experience in machine learning, with a proven record of shipping multiple systems at scale and advancing the state of the art

PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related quantitative field, or equivalent experience demonstrating mastery

Recognized expertise in large-scale ML and LLMs, with strong publication, patent, or open-source contributions a plus

Ability to define and drive a technical vision that aligns with company strategy, even under uncertainty

Strong track record of innovation in deep learning, generative models, reinforcement learning, or probabilistic methods, with direct impact on real-world systems

Hands-on mastery of modern ML toolchains and programming (Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, distributed training, large-scale data systems)

Exceptional ability to translate cutting-edge research into robust, practical solutions that move the needle for customers

Demonstrated thought leadership and influence across organizations, with the ability to set standards and inspire others

Benefits

Choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your family

Additional insurance coverage options for life, accident, or critical illness

Flexible paid time off, sick leave, short-term and long-term disability

10 US observed holidays, and Canadian statutory holidays by province

A home office stipend

401(k) for US-based employees and RRSP for Canada-based employees

Paid parental leave

A local in-person meet-up program

Hubs in San Francisco and Toronto

Company

EvenUp

EvenUp is the leading AI platform for personal injury law.

Founded in 2019

San Francisco, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.litty.ai/

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