We are seeking a Lead Engineer / Full stack developer
to join a legal technology AI start up, The role will work
alongside the CTO to focus on building the firm's core platform for
law firm automation. In this early stage, well funded start up, you
will work at the cutting edge of contemporary ML and LLM techniques.
Python, and ML framework Py torch, Tensor Flow or Hugging Face
About the Role: Design and implement document intelligence
pipelines for contract parsing, data extraction, and document
classification Build and fine-tune LLM-based systems for legal
document analysis, clause identification, and obligation extraction
Develop NLP models for entity recognition, relationship extraction,
and semantic understanding of legal text Create and curate training
datasets from Australian legal documents (conveyancing contracts,
leases, facility agreements) Integrate AI capabilities into the
company's product suite via well-designed, reliable APIs Design
evaluation frameworks to benchmark model performance against legal
expert baselines Collaborate with conveyancing and legal domain




experts to validate AI outputs for accuracy and trustworthiness
Stay current with advances in document AI, transformer
architectures, retrieval-augmented generation, and fine-tuning
About You: 3+ years of experience in machine learning, NLP, or AI
engineering with production deployment experience Strong
proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or
Hugging Face Transformers) Experience building production ML
systems including model training, evaluation, deployment, and
monitoring Hands-on experience with LLMs — prompt engineering,
fine-tuning, RAG architectures, and evaluation Understanding of
document processing, OCR, and information extraction techniques
Experience with cloud ML infrastructure (AWS SageMaker, or
equivalent) Strong software engineering fundamentals — clean code,
testing, version control, CI/CD Based in or willing to relocate to
Sydney or Melbourne, Australia

📌 Lead Engineer - Snr. Full Stack Developer Sydney LegalAutomation / AI (Victoria)
🏢 Novum Global
📍 Victoria