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Founding Machine Learning Engineer

Finch Legal New York City Full-time
$170,000
per year

Job Description

Why Finch?

At Finch, we're pioneering AI to fundamentally reshape the legal industry—building tools that deliver justice faster, smarter, and more equitably.

Join our tight-knit, ambitious team, where you’ll have the autonomy to make meaningful impact through close collaboration with technologists and legal experts. Your work will define the intersection of cutting-edge ML and critical human decisions, influencing how legal work evolves at scale.

What You’ll Do

Own the AI Quality Pipeline

  • Measure model performance, establish robust evaluation processes, and drive continuous model improvement.

  • Prioritize work based on ROI and measurable outcomes to ensure we tackle the highest-impact opportunities.

Collaborate Closely with Users

  • Partner directly with legal experts, operators, and engineers to deeply understand workflows.

  • Rapidly transform complex processes into intuitive, performant automations.

What You Bring

  • Proven AI/ML chops: You’ve shipped language or vision systems (or complex prompt chains) to production and iterated fast.

  • Data rigor: Clear metrics, clean experiments, transparent communication.

  • Product intuition: You can explain why a 3-point accuracy bump matters—or when it doesn’t.

  • Ownership mindset: Ambiguity energizes you; you break big bets into shippable milestones and deliver.

  • Growth mindset: You're always learning, comfortable exploring unfamiliar territory, and eager to expand your skill set and bring learnings back to the team.

  • Bonus: Experience with legal tech, voice agents, or OCR pipelines.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Base salary: $170k – $230k (DOE)

  • Equity: Above-market - own a meaningful slice of the upside

  • Insurance: Health, vision, and dental coverage

  • Tooling stipend: $500/mo to explore & exploit the latest tools

  • Flexible PTO: We trust you to recharge

  • Office perks: Fully stocked kitchen & snacks

Apply Now, or if you’re interested in learning more reach out to [email protected].

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