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title: "AI Native Engineer"
company: "Legalist"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/legalist"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/legalist-ai-native-engineer-96756988-9dbe-4e59-8bb8-29c9d7c23a97"
apply_url: "https://www.legalist.com/careers?gh_jid=6141568004"
workplace: onsite
location: "New York, NY"
employment_type: unspecified
seniority: mid
role: ai-machine-learning
region: united-states
skills: ["llm"]
date_posted: 2026-08-11T22:41:03.000Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-04T18:43:56.621Z
---

# AI Native Engineer

**Legalist** · New York, NY

Apply: https://www.legalist.com/careers?gh_jid=6141568004

## About Legalist

Investment firm specializing in alternative investments involving legal and regulatory risk.

## About the role

##### Intro description:

Legalist is a tech-enabled alternative asset manager that uses proprietary data-driven origination to invest in uncorrelated legal and government-payment assets. Founded out of Y Combinator in 2016, Legalist manages over $1.7 billion for endowments, foundations, and family offices.

*Summary*

Legalist is looking for an AI Native Engineer to join our team and work directly with our Co-founder to build AI-powered products and workflows. This is a hands-on, execution-focused role for someone who has a track record of building across a variety of projects and is already using AI as a core part of how they develop software. Our ideal candidate operates in a fast-paced environment and can take a business problem or idea, figure out the technical approach, build a solution, and iterate quickly.

*Responsibilities*

- Design and build new AI products, tools, and features

- Build applications using LLMs and foundation model APIs

- Develop AI agents and multi-step workflows that connect models with internal and external systems

- Build integrations with third-party APIs, internal data sources, and existing software

- Design and implement RAG pipelines, including retrieval, embeddings, vector search, and context management

- Build backend services and APIs to support AI applications

- Prototype new ideas quickly, thoroughly test them, and turn successful prototypes into production-ready tools

- Evaluate models and approaches based on accuracy, latency, cost, and reliability

- Build evaluations and testing processes to measure and improve model outputs

- Stay current on new models, developer tools, frameworks, and AI capabilities

*Qualifications *

- 3+ years of professional software development experience

- Hands-on experience building applications with LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar

- Experience building AI agents, tool-calling workflows, or other agentic systems

- Strong understanding of APIs, backend development, databases, and cloud infrastructure

- Experience taking software from prototype through production

- Experience working with financial, legal, or other complex datasets

- Familiarity with prompt design, context management, model evaluation, and techniques for improving LLM reliability

- Experience working across a variety of technical projects, ideally for multiple companies or clients

- Comfortable working independently and figuring things out without a detailed set of requirements

- Local to New York City and excited about the opportunity to have regular in-person working sessions

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