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Salary: USD 208,000 - 312,000 / annual
Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, transforming how legal professionals and law firms work. We're seeking a Manager of Machine Learning Engineering to lead a team of 6+ ML engineers building state-of-the-art AI solutions for legal professionals.
In this role, you'll lead the AI team's mission to deliver innovative GenAI and agentic systems that streamline legal work. Your responsibilities include:
- Lead and mentor a team of 6+ ML engineers across traditional ML, GenAI, and agentic AI systems
- Design and ship production-grade agentic workflows including retrieval, tool use, orchestration, and evaluation frameworks
- Collaborate cross-functionally with MLOps, product management, operations, and data science to identify new ML and LLM-driven features
- Conduct technical evaluations of ML/LLM products, vendors, and proof-of-concepts
- Guide the team in building reliable, safe AI systems grounded in customer data
- Review code and provide feedback across teams
- Diagnose and solve complex technical problems spanning multiple engineering areas
- Mentor team members using Agile processes in a large-scale SaaS environment
You bring:
- Proven experience managing high-performing ML engineering teams (6+ engineers)
- Deep expertise in LLMs, GenAI, and agentic systems (tool-calling agents, RAG pipelines, prompt design)
- Hands-on experience fine-tuning foundational models or training language models in-house
- Strong data manipulation and preprocessing skills for complex unstructured data
- Track record of mentorship in software development with Agile and SaaS products
- Ability to quickly master new technologies in a fast-moving environment
- Clear communication and relationship-building skills
Clio offers competitive compensation ($208K-$312K USD), hybrid work with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin, and Sydney (minimum 2 days/week in-office for local employees), flexible time off (20 days encouraged), comprehensive health benefits, 401k matching, and a strong culture of diversity and inclusion.
