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VP of AI (Remote in North Carolina)

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💎 Seniority level: Vp, 10+ years

📍 Location: North Carolina

💸 Salary: 240000.0 - 252000.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Legal Tech

🏢 Company: Rocket Lawyer👥 251-500💰 $223,000,000 Debt Financing almost 4 years agoLegal TechLaw EnforcementLegal

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 10+ years

🪄 Skills: PythonArtificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingMachine LearningPyTorchAmazon Web ServicesData engineeringTensorflow

Requirements:
  • 10+ years of experience in AI, machine learning, and data science, with at least 5+ years in a leadership role.
  • Proven experience leading LLM-driven projects, including fine-tuning, RAG, and prompt engineering.
  • Deep expertise in NLP, deep learning, and AI model deployment at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Mistral, Llama), vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Pgvector), and MLOps frameworks.
  • Strong knowledge of Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain, and AI/ML cloud services.
  • Experience deploying AI models in production-grade applications with security, reliability, and scalability.
  • Understanding of data pipelines, data engineering, and feature engineering for ML.
  • Experience with at least one of the clouds (GCP, AWS or Azure).
  • Exceptional leadership, strategic thinking, and ability to drive AI adoption across an organization.
  • Strong communication skills to translate complex AI concepts into business value.
Responsibilities:
  • Develop and execute Rocket Lawyer’s AI strategy, including LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and scalable AI deployment, with a focus on Rocket Copilot.
  • Own the roadmap for AI-driven capabilities, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user needs.
  • Lead the design and implementation or usage of AI/ML models, particularly LLMs, NLP applications, and generative AI for legal tech solutions.
  • Drive innovation in AI-driven legal assistance, contract analysis, and intelligent conversational document generation and processing.
  • Build and lead a high-performing AI team, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and technical excellence.
  • Collaborate with engineering leadership to integrate AI models into production systems at scale.
  • Ensure AI models are ethical, explainable, unbiased, and aligned with privacy and security standards.
  • Evaluate and implement AI infrastructure, MLOps best practices, and cloud-based AI deployments.
  • Stay ahead of AI trends, academic research, and emerging LLM techniques to maintain a competitive edge.
  • Work cross-functionally with legal, product, and customer teams to deliver user-friendly AI-powered solutions.
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