Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati · 2 months ago
Innovations and AI Solutions Engineer
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$117K/yr - $158K/yr
4+ years expWilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is a premier legal advisor to technology and life sciences enterprises worldwide. The Innovations and AI Solutions Engineer will develop and optimize AI solutions, support data initiatives, and collaborate with attorneys and staff to enhance data collection and analytics across the firm.
FinanceFinTechIntellectual PropertyLegalPrivacy
Responsibilities
Support innovation projects by facilitating and participating in discussions, meetings with management and department groups, developing business processes, implementing data integrations and recommending best practices on the effective use of data and data analytics tools
Build and maintain innovation and AI solutions alongside optimal data API and pipeline architectures
Design, build and implement machine learning models, including the development of AI Models and prompts for various applications
Collaborate with business users and technical teams to support and improve how data is collected, analyzed and reported throughout the organization
Analyze users needs to determine business and data requirements, effectively applying technology to meet the firm’s strategic objectives
Assemble and manage large, complex data sets that meet business and technical requirements
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, and improving infrastructure within assigned projects and data systems
Build system infrastructure and processes for the efficient extraction, transformation, loading and integration of data to and from a wide variety of data sources using SQL, Power BI and Azure technologies
Develop and/or apply analytics tools that utilize data pipelines to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, billing analytics, case outcomes, and other key business and legal practice performance metrics
Ensure firm and client data security across multiple office locations, data centers, vendors and applications
Develop data visualization and reporting tools to effectively convey meaningful insights from complex and diverse data sets
Leverage statistics and computational techniques in problem solving
Be familiar with common NLP and machine learning techniques
Research and use applicable models in creative problem solving
Work with GitHub and software version control
Demonstrate the ability to efficiently and smartly document code and end-to-end processes
Implement models in a production environment via custom API’s and enterprise solutions. such as Azure
Qualification
Required
4+ years of experience in a Data Engineer/DataOps-DevOps role
Bachelor's degree and/or graduate degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Analytics, Information Systems or equivalent discipline
Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and related Microsoft data management and integration technologies
Extensive experience and working knowledge with SQL and relational databases, including query authoring, database management, and creating/maintaining large data stores in SQL and cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
Experience building and optimizing API's and data pipelines, architectures and data sets
Strong analytic skills related to working with structured and unstructured datasets
Ability to learn new tools and coding languages where required
Ability to organize tasks and priorities under minimal supervision
Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data, data integrations and processes to solve specific business problems and identify opportunities for improvement
Experience developing processes that support data transformation, integrations, data structures, metadata, dependency and workflow management
A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders in a dynamic environment
Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information responsibly
Experience with AI/ML data preparation including feature engineering, data preprocessing, and dataset versioning for machine learning workflows
Knowledge of data bias detection and mitigation techniques to ensure AI models are fair and representative across different legal contexts
Experience with vector databases and embeddings for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications
Expertise in applying SQL Server, T-SQL, SSIS & SSRS, Stored Procedures
DataWarehousing experience – ETL & ELT
PowerBI, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
Excel / PowerQuery
Programming and scripting languages: Python, R, C++, Julia, Javascript, SQL
API integration and development tools and scripting
Extensive experience working with a variety of data file formats, such as JSON, XML, SQL
Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred
AI/ML Data Preparation Certification or equivalent coursework in machine learning data engineering
Experience with legal technology platforms and understanding of legal workflow requirements
Knowledge of data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA) as they apply to AI systems in legal contexts
Additional skills that would be highly advantageous include: PowerShell, Regular Expression (Regex), VBA, MS Access & Excel, Documentation & Process Mapping, Dynamic visualization tools, such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Domo, etc., Experience developing and applying machine learning models using Python, R, SQL and Azure Machine Learning, Experience integrating legal industry, line-of-business applications, such as SharePoint, Aderant Financial System, Salesforce.com/CRM, NetDocs/DMS, Large Language Model Integration: Experience with OpenAI API, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or similar, Embedding Models: Familiarity with sentence transformers, OpenAI embeddings, or domain-specific legal embeddings
Benefits
Discretionary year-end merit bonus based on performance
Highly competitive salary and benefits package
Company
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati provides legal services for technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprises.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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