Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Systems

EvenUp is on a mission to close the justice gap using technology and AI. We empower personal injury lawyers and victims to get the justice they deserve. Our products enable law firms to secure faster settlements, higher payouts, and better outcomes for victims injured through no fault of their own in vehicle collisions, accidents, natural disasters, and more. We are one of the fastest-growing vertical SaaS companies in history, and we are just getting started. EvenUp is backed by top VCs, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, SignalFire, and Lightspeed. We are looking to expand our team with talented, driven, and collaborative individuals who seek to have a lasting impact. Learn more at www.evenuplaw.com. At EvenUp, we leverage cutting-edge AI to bring fairness and accessibility to the legal system. Tackling the most complex legal document challenges requires expertise in data quality, robust model development, and ongoing innovation. We are looking for a curious, impact-driven early career Machine Learning Engineer eager to join EvenUp's mission. You’ll develop and deploy models that power Piai™, our proprietary claims-intelligence platform, with a focus on machine learning, natural-language processing, and generative AI. Working alongside senior ML engineers, data scientists, and legal subject-matter experts, you’ll turn raw legal and medical data into production-ready models that directly improve justice for personal-injury clients. Core Responsibilities • Design and implement end-to-end ML systems for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector search, and fine-tuning pipelines. • Build and optimize data pipelines that integrate structured, unstructured, and embeddings-based data into ML workflows. • Develop frameworks and reusable components for data extraction, evaluation, and benchmarking of LLMs and other models. • Collaborate with data scientists and product teams to translate business problems into ML system designs. • Research, prototype, and productionize state-of-the-art techniques in semantic search, embeddings, and prompt engineering. • Implement evaluation strategies for ML systems, including relevance metrics, quality scores, and human-in-the-loop workflows. • Ensure scalability and efficiency of ML workflows, including large-scale embedding generation and retrieval pipelines. • Work with machine learning platform engineers to integrate ML frameworks into production environments. • Document system architectures and create internal best practices for building ML/AI frameworks. Optional Skills • Experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Milvus, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch). • Familiarity with retrieval frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, custom retrieval pipelines). • Strong software engineering skills (Python, distributed computing, APIs). • Strong knowledge of transformer models (LLMs, embeddings, fine-tuning methods like LoRA, PEFT). • Understanding of evaluation methodologies for generative AI (RAG benchmarks, hallucination reduction, factual grounding). Notice to Candidates: EvenUp has been made aware of fraudulent job postings and unaffiliated third parties posing as our recruiting team – please know that we have no affiliation or connection to these situations. We only post open roles on our career page (evenuplaw.com/careers) or reputable job boards like our official LinkedIn or Indeed pages, and all official EvenUp recruitment emails will come from the domains @evenuplaw.com, @evenup.ai, @ext-evenuplaw.com, [email protected] or no‑[email protected] email addresses. To ensure fairness and proper consideration, we do not accept resumes or expressions of interest via email or social media messages. If you’re interested in a role, please submit your application directly through our careers page. If you receive communication from someone you believe is impersonating EvenUp, please report it to us at [email protected]. Examples of fraudulent domains include “careers-evenuplaw.com” and “careers-evenuplaws.com”. Benefits & Perks: As part of our total rewards package, we offer attractive benefits and perks to our employees, including: • 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 Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees EvenUp is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion in our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Apply tot his job