Legal Research Fellows
Contract/Part-time
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Hybrid
About Jhana
jhana builds intelligent and fundamental tools for the law. We are developing and piloting a series of novel legal tech interventions including India’s first AI paralegal. Our ongoing first round of venture capital financing is sizeable; we hold fellowships at academic/nonprofit programs including Emergent Ventures (George Mason University) and Agami OpenNyAI; we feature on rosters including at Jio GenNext, WilmerHale Launch, ML Elevate, AWS Public Sector Ramp, etc. More details are available for filtered candidates.
Join us as Legal Research Fellows to influence our model design and stylization. This is a pre-doc style role, intensive in applied jurisprudence and case law research as well as building simulacra of high-value practice and the philosophy of design for the future of work.
Top-performing Fellows may be offered return offers for full time roles (and stock options).
Who are you?
• A superlative final-year law student (perhaps with a cemented post-grad return offer or graduate program admission in hand, seeking novelty)
• Outsized experience among your cohort in the practice in litigation or corporate law
• Published research or similar veracity of output in moot-courting, non-academic writing, etc.
What will you be doing?
• Technical evaluation, simulations, stress tests, and benchmarking of accuracy, performance, and bias in novel legal models
• Stylizing, selecting, and fine-tuning outputs of experimental legal models
• Constructing, curating, annotating, and tagging high-quality memos and documents
About The Team
We are a public benefit corporation headquartered in Bangalore. We operate in rapidly changing legal systems with awareness of the stakes at hand. Our intention is to influence beneficence and alignment into the technological systems that are augmenting and replacing human institutions. Our team spans diverse identity and training, from physics an
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