Full-Time

Vertical Lead

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. Our first product, India’s first AI paralegal, is live in an open-access beta at https://jhana.ai. We have ongoing POCs for legal workflow and document generation automation products, focusing on tools that passively adapt to a given firm or company’s data and norms. We hold fellowships and honors at nonprofit, academic, and technical programs. More details are available to candidates.

About The Role

The vertical

Our products work with our proprietary corpora of ~13M structured documents as well as with internal documents of clients. Effective, 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 anchored to information retrieval and cites and quotes all its claims.

The day-to-day

This is an advanced role distributed across research, engineering, and product. Relatedly, it is a combination of invention and optimization. These are the problem statements that this role will likely continue or begin our work on—

Measurement

• Constructing measures of search reliability/comprehensiveness and success/effectiveness; comparing ordered sets of search results; relevant notions of similarity and distance to evaluate IR
• Implementing and automating benchmarks using labeled

📌 Research Scientist, Search (Bengaluru)
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📍 Bengaluru