Data Scientist - Agentic AI
@ Draftwise

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$120,000
Hybrid
Full Time
Posted 22 days ago

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About Draftwise

Founded in 2020, Draftwise is a contract drafting, review, and negotiation AI platform powered by legal expertise. Operating within Microsoft Word, it streamlines complex drafting, review, and search workflows, serving top law firms and Fortune 500 organizations worldwide. The company is headquartered in New York with offices in London and soon Toronto.

Join Our Mission

Draftwise builds AI to make legal contract work faster and more precise. You will work alongside experienced engineers and legal professionals from leading firms to create technology that elite lawyers rely on daily.

Why Join Draftwise

  • Proven Product-Market Fit: Our core technology supports demanding legal clients.
  • Strong Foundation: Y Combinator alumni with $20M Series A funding.
  • Meaningful Impact: Create features with immediate, real-world legal impact.
  • Global Offices & Remote Culture: Work remotely or from NYC, London, or Toronto soon.

About The Role: Data Scientist - Agentic AI

You will push the frontier of agentic AI for complex legal tasks. Responsibilities include designing data‑driven experiments, curating evaluation datasets with legal SMEs, fine‑tuning models to improve performance, and collaborating with NLP/ML engineers and legal experts to translate real‑world workflows into robust systems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Conduct rigorous experiments on legal agent workflows.
  • Analyze production metrics and propose performance improvements.
  • Identify and fine‑tune high‑value model components.
  • Curate and manage high‑quality labeled datasets.
  • Integrate models into production with cross‑functional partners.
  • Pilot emerging techniques and drive innovation.

Requirements

Minimum 1+ years in applied NLP/ML or data science with hands‑on experience in designing experiments and working with LLM-driven agents. Proficiency in Python and modern ML tooling is necessary, alongside clear communication abilities and adaptability in a dynamic environment.

Nice-to-Haves

Experience in information retrieval, training fine-tuned models (SFT, RFT), implementing function calling, and previous exposure to legal or compliance domains. Mentorship and technical leadership experience are also valued.

What We Offer

  • Flexibility to work in-office or remotely.
  • Meaningful equity and competitive compensation.
  • Medical insurance and equipment/workspace stipends.
  • Unlimited PTO & sick leave.
  • The opportunity to shape a category‑defining product for global legal markets.

Key skills/competency

  • Data Science
  • Agentic AI
  • NLP
  • Machine Learning
  • Experimentation
  • Evaluation
  • Data Pipelines
  • Fine-Tuning
  • Production Analytics
  • Legal Tech
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How to Get Hired at Draftwise

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  • Customize your resume: Highlight NLP, ML, and legal experience.
  • Study Draftwise culture: Research their mission and funding.
  • Showcase technical projects: Emphasize experiments and model tuning.
  • Prepare for interviews: Review A/B testing and evaluation methods.

📝 Interview Preparation Advice

Technical Preparation

Review Python and modern ML libraries.
Practice statistical experiments and A/B testing.
Study dataset labeling and data pipeline construction.
Refine fine-tuning methods and evaluation metrics.

Behavioral Questions

Describe a challenging independent project.
Explain decision-making in ambiguous situations.
Discuss past cross-functional collaboration experience.
Share feedback incorporation examples.

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