Applied AI Engineer

Department/Division: Solutions/Innovation
Duration: Permanent
Type of Role: Hybrid
Reference Number: 10203

The Team

The Innovation & AI team sits within the Solutions function and is responsible for identifying developing and scaling innovative solutions including AI and legal technology to enhance client service delivery and internal efficiency.

The team works closely with IT Office of the General Counsel (OGC) Procurement Solutions/Helix and Practice Groups to pilot implement and embed new tools and ways of working across the firm.

The Role

The Applied AI Engineer designs builds and productionises AI-enabled solutions for legal and business services delivery. Working consultatively with stakeholders and delivery teams the role translates use cases into technical designs across Python applications cloud workflows enterprise platforms AI skills agents integrations and automations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design build and maintain AI-enabled applications automations and internal tools using Python cloud services and enterprise platforms.
• Work with stakeholders to understand business problems assess use cases and translate requirements into practical technical designs.
• Build integrations between internal systems enterprise platforms external applications and AI services.
• Develop reusable AI skills agents workflow components and automation patterns that can be adopted across the firm.
• Build document-focused AI workflows including extraction summarisation search retrieval and due diligence support.
• Productise AI pilots by improving reliability maintainability testing evaluation documentation and reuse.
• Design and implement multi-step AI workflows including tool-using agentic and platform-native automations where appropriate.
• Collaborate with product UX engineering cloud innovation and business teams to deliver secure production-ready solutions.
• Apply sound engineering judgement around confidential client data privacy security governance and responsible AI.

Key Skills & Experience

• Python software engineering experience across applications integrations automations or internal tools.
• Experience building or implementing AI/ML or LLM-enabled solutions in production or near-production settings.
• Experience working with APIs SDKs cloud services and enterprise platforms.
• Practical understanding of prompt engineering RAG LLM workflows or agentic patterns.
• Ability to interview stakeholders and translate business processes into technical designs.
• Experience with testing debugging documentation Git and maintaining reliable systems.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills across technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred:

• Experience within a legal professional services or other document-intensive enterprise environment.
• Familiarity with document processing pipelines unstructured data workflows or knowledge retrieval systems.
• Experience with orchestration frameworks agents skill-building frameworks or workflow automation tools.
• Experience building on enterprise AI platforms or comparable environments.
• Exposure to governance security privacy and responsible AI considerations in enterprise environments.

Personal Attributes

• Pragmatic and delivery-focused with the ability to turn ambiguous ideas into working solutions.
• Consultative and curious able to ask good questions and challenge assumptions constructively.
• Collaborative and comfortable working across multidisciplinary teams.
• Adaptable in a fast-moving environment where requirements and technologies evolve.
• Clear communicator who can explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Firm Profile

Across more than 80 countries Dentons helps you grow protect operate and finance your organisation by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Polycentric purpose-driven and committed to inclusion diversity equity and sustainability we focus on what matters most to you.

Inclusion and Diversity

We are committed to building an inclusive culture here at Dentons where our people can thrive regardless of their background or circumstance. As well as being the right thing to do it makes good business sense too. A richness of backgrounds experiences and perspectives helps us best serve our clients and the communities in which we operate. You can find out more about inclusion and diversity at Dentons here: Inclusion and Diversity

Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from everyone including of any age ethnicity religion sex sexual orientation gender identity nationality neurotype disability or with parental or caring responsibilities. We are also Happy to Talk Flexible Working and welcome conversations about flexible working arrangements.

Dentons is a Disability Confident employer. Candidates with a disability may choose to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme. We will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Where application volumes are high we may offer interviews to those who best meet the minimum criteria consistent with our approach for all candidates.

During the application process all applicants have the opportunity to tell us about any adjustments or support they require so they are able to perform at their best. Any information you share with us during the application process is treated in confidence.

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Please note that we will not accept unsolicited CVs sent to the business nor will we accept any associated terms of business.

Required Experience:

IC

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1