--- title: 'Machine Learning Engineer at DeepJudge' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/machine-learning-engineer-deepjudge-zurich-0awj0n13n6kz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-14' --- # Machine Learning Engineer at DeepJudge - **Company:** DeepJudge - **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/deepjudge/cbec610a-9fb7-4d86-bd3d-f97089a2d6c3 ## Job description About us: Founded by former Google search engineers with PhDs in AI from ETH Zurich, DeepJudge helps legal teams unlock and apply the knowledge inside their organizations through world-class enterprise search and AI infrastructure – enabling them to automate workflows, build knowledge-powered applications, and turn institutional knowledge into a lasting advantage. Every organization can license the same AI models, but no two organizations share the same institutional knowledge. Decades of experience, work product, and precedent are often fragmented across systems, underused, and inaccessible. DeepJudge makes this expertise instantly available and actionable – helping legal teams find the right information faster, surface relevant knowledge, and apply it where it matters most. Our platform is trusted by many of the world’s leading law firms and legal teams, including Holland & Knight, Gunderson Dettmer, Cozen O’Connor, ArentFox Schiff, CMS Switzerland, Schoenherr, and others. Headquartered in Switzerland with a growing team across North America and Europe, DeepJudge is shaping the future of how professional knowledge is discovered and applied. At DeepJudge, we move with urgency, think rigorously, and work closely with our clients to build products that solve meaningful problems. If you want to help define how AI transforms professional knowledge work, we’d love to hear from you. ## About the Role DeepJudge is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to design, build, evaluate and refine AI systems powering our core products. In this role, you will have a chance to own the entire lifecycle of an ML-enabled component of our product from research to production: data analysis, modeling, implementation, delivery to the customers, offline/online evaluation, and iterative improvement. Your responsibilities will include: - Bridge Research and Production: Stay on top of the latest developments in the AI space and translate cutting-edge research into scalable, production-ready systems. - Core ML: Train, evaluate, and optimize a wide range of machine learning systems. Drive efficient inference and deployment while ensuring the robustness, reliability, and scalability of ML-powered components across our product. - Search: Continuously advance search quality through innovative use of models, data, tools, agentic systems, both offline and online evaluation, techniques, and any other means that move performance forward. You're a great fit if you: - Have strong hands-on experience, including training and serving deep learning models. - Are proficient in at least one modern deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow). - Are familiar with modern ML practices, and have experience building scalable AI-powered systems that deliver real value. Experience with neural retrieval systems, agentic systems, or publications in top journals/conferences is a strong plus. - Take ownership of key product components, define their technical vision, and navigate the uncertainty of building first-of-its-kind AI models. - Thrive in fast-paced environments, executing with focus while collaborating effectively across engineering and business teams. - Are passionate about solving complex problems and pushing the boundaries of AI, turning cutting-edge ML ideas into impactful, production-ready features. - Last but not least, if you have exceptional communication skills that make sharing complex ideas, giving feedback, and incorporating diverse perspectives second nature. What you can look forward to: - Location: We have an office near Zurich central station and mostly work in the office - You will be able to take on full ownership for your projects and tasks from day 1 - You will have a stake in shaping the future of a high-impact scale-up - You will be on a fast-paced learning path, where you grow professionally every day, combining diverse areas of ML and SE expertise to develop and deploy cutting-edge ML solutions At DeepJudge, we believe great teams are built on diverse perspectives and experiences. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can thrive. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If this role excites you, but you feel you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway and tell us why you’d be a great fit. ## About DeepJudge ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: DeepJudge provides a precision AI search and workflow platform that enables legal teams to access and leverage their firm’s entire institutional knowledge instantly. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $10.7M in Seed funding in June 2024) - **Headquarters**: Zürich, Switzerland - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Paulina Grnarova (CEO), Kevin Roth (COO), Yannic Kilcher (CTO), Florian Schmidt ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Legal Technology (LegalTech) / Enterprise AI / Knowledge Management - **Target Customers**: B2B; specifically large and mid-size law firms, corporate legal departments, and in-house legal teams. - **Mission/Purpose**: To empower legal professionals to do extraordinary work by transforming how they access and use their collective knowledge. The company’s tagline is “Know what your firm knows — instantly.” ## Products & Services - **DeepJudge Knowledge Search**: An AI-powered enterprise search engine that indexes and understands data wherever it lives (documents, emails, archives, DMS) without requiring complex implementation or data migration. It provides instant, intelligent search across a firm’s entire knowledge base. - **DeepJudge AI Workflows**: An LLM-agnostic agentic reasoning platform that allows firms to build, deploy, orchestrate, and govern AI agents. It executes complex, multi-step tasks by retrieving data from multiple sources and taking actions, delivering transparency and precision. - **Matter & Client Overview**: A feature that creates an overview and timeline of all events pertaining to documents of a selected matter, client, or folder. - **Multi-Document Chat**: Allows users to ask questions about a client-matter file folder or any set of documents for quick insights and review. - **Negotiation Intelligence**: Enables users to search to uncover whether opposing counsel ever agreed to a point in a past negotiation. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (Private company). - **Key Metric**: Raised **$10.7M** in Seed funding (announced July 3, 2024). Total funding is reported by LinkedIn as **$53.1M** across 6 rounds, though this figure appears to aggregate multiple instruments. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Coatue, Thomas Dübendorfer, and other unnamed investors. Advisors include Viviana Faga (General Partner) and Steve Obenski. Key customers include top global law firms such as **Freshfields** and **Homburger**. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount of **66 employees** (+83.7% year-over-year, adding 36 people). - Operates in 6 countries (Switzerland, USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany). - Customers report **90% faster results** than with existing tools, **+4x ROI** in the first year, and **+85% adoption** in under two months. - Deep integration into firms like Freshfields and Homburger, with over 80% of legal professionals at Homburger using the platform. ## Competitive Advantages - **Founding Team Deep Expertise**: Founded by four Machine Learning PhDs from ETH Zurich and EPFL, with combined experience at Google Brain, Google AI Language, and Microsoft Research. This gives the company a deep technical moat in AI, search, and NLP. - **Legal-Specific Focus**: Unlike general AI platforms, DeepJudge is purpose-built for the legal industry, understanding legal workflows, document structures, and the critical need for compliance, security, and governance. - **No Data Migration Required**: The platform indexes data in place, eliminating the friction and risk of moving sensitive legal data to a new system. - **LLM-Agnostic Architecture**: Allows firms to use the best available LLM models without vendor lock-in, future-proofing their AI strategy. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling Revenue and Sales**: Hiring aggressively for Enterprise Account Directors across the US, UK, and EU/DACH, as well as a Head of Customer Success and Customer Success Managers. - **Product Expansion**: Continued development of AI Workflows and agentic capabilities to automate more complex legal tasks (e.g., diligence, contract review, negotiation intelligence). - **Geographic Expansion**: Growing presence in the US and UK legal markets while maintaining strength in Europe. - **Building the Partner Ecosystem**: Hiring a Technology Partner Manager to build integrations and alliances. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact, Fast-Growing Environment**: The company is scaling rapidly (+83% headcount YoY) and employees are expected to ship code quickly and make a direct impact on mission-critical workflows for top global law firms. - **World-Class Team**: Work alongside former Google Brain and Microsoft Research engineers, legaltech veterans from Thomson Reuters, Casetext, and Agiloft, and a CEO recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. - **Remote & Hybrid Policy**: Headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland, with teams in the USA and Canada. The company supports remote work across multiple countries. - **Culture**: Emphasis on innovation, deep technical excellence, and solving hard problems. The company is described as a “high-performing team at a fast-growing company” where employees are empowered to shape the future of legal AI. - **Open Roles**: Currently hiring for DevOps Engineer, Backend Software Engineer (Indexing & Applications), Applied AI Engineer, Agentic Harness Engineer, Solution Architect, Customer Success Manager, Enterprise Account Directors, Demand Generation Manager, and more. ## Sources 1. [deepjudge.ai - About Us](https://www.deepjudge.ai/about-us) 2. [deepjudge.ai - Homepage](https://www.deepjudge.ai/) 3. [deepjudge.ai - Careers](https://www.deepjudge.ai/careers) 4. [crunchbase.com - DeepJudge Profile](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/deepjudge) 5. [linkedin.com - DeepJudge Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepjudge/) 6. 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