Data Engineer

Full time

SDE III

Bangalore

About Jhana

jhana is an early-stage, seed-funded startup that builds intelligent practice tools for the law across research, drafting, and document management. At jhana, we are transforming the legal industry with India’s first AI-driven Paralegal. Our product delivers critical legal insights through advanced AI, producing outputs like redlines, memos, and risk assessments to streamline workflows for legal teams. Recognized as the Best Legal Tech Startup in Asia and Oceania by ALITA, we are on a mission to empower professionals with technology that drives efficiency and excellence.

About The Role

This role will be part of a senior AI development team, tasked with researching, engineering, and launching cutting-edge AI products. This team will be responsible for: working with the product team to design technologies that serve user needs; innovating and creating novel solutions in the legal-tech space; and iterating on these solutions as the userbase and product evolve. All members of this team will be deeply experienced,



product- and user-oriented, and up to date with the latest research and technologies in the field.

The vertical

Our products work with our proprietary corpora of ~13M structured documents as well as with internal documents of clients. Efficient, comprehensive billion-scale search is fundamental to our product. This broader technical problem further interacts with the complexity of the law. For instance, cites-cited-by graphs and graphs of precedent undergoing appeal or overruling inform the relevance of a result. And precedents can be good citation matches for complex reasons, wherein cases from unrelated areas or questions of the law can constitute important precedent. We attempt to excel at these challenges by using simple models for preprocessing, by sequencing traditional and cutting-edge techniques, and by carefully reranking and postprocessing results. This helps deliver generative AI that is a

📌 Data Engineer SDE III (Bengaluru)
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📍 Bengaluru