Overview AI is already making a real impact at Chambers and Partners, with solutions running in production across our editorial, research, product and commercial teams. We're now looking for a Chief AI Engineer to lead our AI engineering function, own the technical direction of AI across the business and shape the next stage of our AI transformation.
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This is a deeply technical leadership role. You'll be part of the Senior Leadership Team and be the final technical authority on how we build, evaluate, deploy and run AI: the AI architecture, modelling choices, engineering standards and evaluation discipline the team works to. You'll have taken AI systems end to end many times over, from ideation and discovery through to deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement, and you'll stay close enough to the code to solve the hardest problems yourself.
Alongside this, you'll help set our AI strategy and roadmap, advise our Executive Leadership Team on where AI creates the greatest value, and represent Chambers as a credible voice on AI in the legal market. Around 70% of the role is hands-on technical leadership and delivery; around 30% is strategic. Main Duties and Responsibilities
Technical leadership and delivery (c.70%)
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of our AI solutions, from ideation, discovery and scoping through experimentation, production deployment, monitoring and iteration, measuring their impact against agreed business outcomes.
- Act as the technical design authority for AI, setting direction across architecture, model selection, data and retrieval strategies, fine-tuning, evaluation and deployment, and making the hard calls on whether to build, buy or not use AI at all.
- Stay hands-on: prototype, review code, pair on the hardest problems and personally lead the design of business-critical AI systems.
- Design scalable, secure and maintainable AI solutions in partnership with our Technology and Data Platform teams.
- Define and own evaluation frameworks for ML, LLM and GenAI outputs, covering accuracy, consistency, bias mitigation and regression testing, so that everything we release meets Chambers' standards for rigour and independence.
- Establish production discipline across MLOps and LLMOps: experiment tracking, model registry, monitoring, drift management, observability and safe, structured and streamlined deployment.
- Lead, mentor and develop our AI engineering team, hiring strong engineers, raising the technical bar and creating an environment where people do their best work. Ensure high quality engineering practices, including code review and safe, structured and streamline deployment. xgikmsk
- Run delivery across multiple concurrent AI workstreams, managing cross-team dependencies with Product, Research, Commercial, Data and Technology teams.
Strategic leadership (c.30%)
Chief AI Engineer employer: Chambers and Partners Careers
At Chambers and Partners, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of AI innovation, offering a dynamic work environment where your contributions directly shape our AI initiatives. As an AI Solutions Lead, you'll enjoy a collaborative culture that fosters professional growth, with opportunities to mentor a talented team while staying hands-on with cutting-edge technology. Located in a vibrant setting, we provide a unique chance to influence impactful AI solutions that reach a global audience, making your work both meaningful and rewarding.
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