Junior Generative AI Engineer

Overview

Cleary Gottlieb is a pioneer in globalizing the legal profession. We have 14 offices in major financial centers around the world, but we operate as a single, integrated global partnership and not as a U.S. firm with a network of overseas locations. The firm employs approximately 1,100 lawyers from more than 50 countries.

Since 1946 our lawyers and staff have worked across practices, industries, jurisdictions, and continents to provide clients with simple, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges, whether domestic or international. We support every client relationship with intellectual agility, commercial acumen, and a human touch. We're an internal team at Cleary Gottlieb building bespoke AI solutions for legal work, drawing on software engineering, data science, and deep domain expertise. We work at the boundary of enterprise-grade software, and we are regularly building services and applications nobody here has built before. That makes for a dynamic learning environment — and one where a junior engineer will gain exposure to real-world AI systems from day one.

We are a tight-knit, remote-first team that values growth, honesty, and curiosity. We work collaboratively across multiple disciplines — engineering, data science, legal domain experts, and product — to deliver meaningful impact. Junior engineers are paired with experienced mentors and participate in structured code reviews, pair-programming sessions, and weekly knowledge-sharing stand-ups.

You'll join the AI Acceleration Team as a Junior Generative AI Engineer, reporting to the Data Science Manager and working day to day with our engineers, data scientists, and legal domain experts. Nobody arrives knowing legal workflows or our exact stack — curiosity and an appetite for increasing responsibility count for more here than the length of a CV.

Responsibilities: The Role:

Under the guidance of senior engineers, you'll help prototype, build