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This role is for someone who is passionate about building innovative solutions and being exposed to new challenges and technologies while making an impact. This role is available to all candidates in Canada and the US.\nWhat your team does:\nWe at Clio have an amazing team that is on a mission to transform the legal experience for all, and our engineering team's goal is to deliver an incredible experience to our customers. In the AI team at Clio, we use the latest in GenAI, and LLMs in particular, along with agentic systems, to build solutions that make our customers' work more streamlined and efficient, giving them more time to focus on their clients' needs. That means going beyond single-shot model calls: we design agentic workflows where models reason over context, use tools, and take multi-step actions on behalf of legal professionals, all grounded in a customer's real data.\nA day in the life might look like:\nLead a team of 6 ML engineers to bring state of the art AI to Clio's clients, spanning traditional ML models, GenAI, and agentic AI.\n\nGuide the team in designing and shipping agentic systems, including retrieval, tool use, orchestration, and the evaluation frameworks that keep them reliable and safe in production.\n\nCollaborate cross-functionally with MLOps engineering, product management, operations, and data science to identify new tooling for ML and LLM-driven features for Clio customers.\n\nWork in an agile environment with our team of ML engineers, ML ops, and full stack developers across a variety of projects\n\nLearn new things, challenge yourself, and hone your craft as an ML and infrastructure expert in a space that is moving fast\n\nParticipate in diverse projects and collaborate with multiple engineering teams across three countries.\n\nReview and provide feedback on code, both from within your own team or across all of Clio.\n\nCollaborate with teams across Clio to diagnose, understand, and solve problems, and to build solutions that may span many areas.\n\nTeach and learn from those around you, providing constructive feedback and taking on feedback to help grow.\n\nWhat you may have:\nExperience in managing high performing teams (6+ ML Engineers).\n\nExperience with technical evaluations of various ML and LLM products, vendors, out-of-the-box solutions, and conducting quick proof of concepts if necessary.\n\nIn-depth understanding of LLMs, GenAI, and the competitive landscape, including where the technology is heading.\n\nHands-on familiarity with building agentic systems, such as tool-calling agents, RAG pipelines, prompt and context design, and evaluating agent behavior at scale.\n\nExperience in fine-tuning foundational models and/or training language models in-house.\n\nExperience to manipulate, clean, and pre-process complex unstructured data for model development.\n\nThe ability to become fluent in new technologies quickly and work effectively in an ever-evolving environment that includes distributed teams and customers.\n\nDemonstrated success in mentorship in software development, particularly using an Agile process and with large scale SaaS products.\n\nA diverse base of knowledge that allows you to help your team solve complex technical problems.\n\nA history of past projects (including notable successes and lessons learned).\n\nClear and concise communication skills and the ability to build high-trust relationships with fellow Clions and customers.\n\nWhat you will find here:\nCompensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.\nSome highlights of our Total Rewards program include:\nCompetitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance\n\nHybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office minimum twice per week.\n\nFlexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.\n\nEAP benefits for you and household members, including counseling and online resources\n\n401k matching and Child Education Savings\n\nClioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years\n\nThe expected salary range for this role is $218,600 to $327,800 USD. Initial placement within the range is informed by geographic region, experience, and skillset, with room to progress as impact and tenure grow. Final offer amounts will vary based on candidate profile.Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility\nOur team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated todiversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.\nClio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.\nLearn more about our culture atclio.com/careers\nWe're a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations. In recruitment, AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. 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