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Senior Applied AI Engineer, Document Intelligence

Vertican
📍 Anywhere in the World 💰 🕑 Any timezone
Full-time Senior Engineering Back-End Programming

Job Description

Headquarters: New Jersey, USA

URL: https://vertican.com

About the role

For 40 years Vertican has buildt software that runs law firms. One year ago we created a new modern AI platform for document automation (processing/extraction/redacting) which our customers have been adopting faster than any product we've ever had. Our suite of AI-enabled products save customers thousands of hours each week by processing high volumes of documents with precision and speed.The AI team is growing and we'd like you to join.

We are hiring an engineer to own the document processing pipelines end to end: design, benchmarking, experimenting with new architectures and tools, threshold required for deploying a new pipeline, etc.

We believe it's important to build our own tooling to help us run, improve, and measure our applications. Therefore, the ideal candidate thinks outside the box on how to not just build the product/pipeline, but also the tooling needed around it.

You will be the first dedicated ML hire on the product taking over from the engineering manager who build the current solution and will work directly with the founding engineering team.

This is a senior, hands-on individual-contributor role, but we are small team and you'll be involved in design, planning, roadmapping, and architectural decisions.

What you will do

Design the pipelines. Own the architecture of the extraction-to-posting pipelines: page classification, field extraction, candidate retrieval, claim matching, confidence gating and the hand-off to human review, etc. Decide where rules end and models begin, and what each stage must guarantee to the next, what the separation of concerns are, etc.

We have different pipelines for different document types and expect that at any given point in time we may have new ones emerge and may consolidate others.

Evaluate new systems before we adopt them. Run structured trials of candidate components and recommend what to keep. Examples include probabilistic record...