Ivo

Legal

AIResearcher

CA$250–325k Toronto, Ontario, Canada; San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“AI Researcher at Ivo. Skills: LLMs, Deep learning, AI research, Agentic systems. Advance the core AI platform. Design novel approaches”

What You'll Achieve.

Redefine how legal professionals work; See research change industry; Ship winners into production

Industry & Context.

Legal
Problems you'll solve

Problem identification; Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Ph. D. in Computer Science or equivalent, Deep, hands-on experience in deep learning, Working knowledge of modern frameworks, Expertise in agentic systems, Expertise in reasoning, Expertise in PEFT methods, Expertise in quantization, Expertise in inference optimization, Expertise in hallucination mitigation, Expertise in novel architectures, Expertise in robust evaluation methodology, Excellent communication skills, Bias toward action

Nice to Have

Publications at top ML/AI conferences, Publications in quantitative journals, Experience with retrieval, Experience with grounded generation, Prior work on hallucination detection, Prior work on calibration, Prior work on interpretability, Track record of building from zero

What You'll Do.

Advance the core AI platform

Design novel approaches

Implement novel approaches

Conduct research on hallucination detection

Conduct research on calibration

Conduct research on explainability

Explore advanced fine-tuning

Apply advanced fine-tuning

Explore PEFT techniques

Apply PEFT techniques

Explore distillation techniques

Apply distillation techniques

Explore agentic systems

Explore long-context modeling

Build evaluation infrastructure

Measure model performance

Write internal reports

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Engineering and Product teams; Technical audiences; Non-technical audiences

Communication Scope

Articulate complex research findings

Process & Methodology

Roadmap ownership

Full Job Description

WHY IVO? Every civilization runs on the same infrastructure: agreements between people who don't fully trust each other. Sumerians pressed them into clay. Romans carved them into stone. We bury them in 80-page PDFs. The way those agreements are reviewed hasn't changed in four thousand years - a human reads the whole thing and tries not to miss anything. We're building the AI that finally changes that. Ivo is the contract intelligence platform of choice for companies like Uber, Meta, Canva, IBM, and Shopify. We recently raised our Series B and have grown 800% over the last 12 months. ENGINEERING AT IVO ENGINEERS AT IVO ARE INVENTORS. IVO WAS FIRST-TO-MARKET WITH: - An AI agent that lives in MS Word and edits the document for you [2023] - Ditching imprecise embeddings models in favor of agentic RAG [2023] - Large-scale LLM-based legal fact extraction [2024] - A legal assistant that can search large contract databases without sacrificing accuracy [2024] - Clustering legal documents descended from the same family [2025] - Automatic deviation analysis to locate buried risk in huge contract databases [2025] - Merging contracts with their amendments to produce a time series of "composite" contracts (a customer actually cried when we showed her this) [2025] THE ROLE: WHY, WHAT, AND WHO WHY AI Researchers are the engine of innovation at Ivo. You'll push the state of the art in applying LLMs, deep learning, and advanced AI techniques to the unique and high-stakes challenges of the legal domain — where accuracy, explainability, and robustness aren't nice-to-haves, they're the product. Your research will translate directly into features that redefine how legal professionals work. This isn't an academic role. It's a chance to see your research fundamentally change an industry. WHAT YOU'LL DO You'll own a research roadmap end-to-end: identifying the right problems, designing experiments, prototyping, and shipping the winners into production alongside the engineering team. Concret

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