AI Architect

Ogletree Deakins is hiring an AI Architect for OD Labs, the firm's AI incubator. The role designs, builds, deploys, and maintains secure AI applications, agents, integrations, and workflows supporting attorney-facing legal work, in collaboration with practice groups and project partners.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain AI applications, agents, retrieval systems, integrations, and workflows that support legal practice and firm operations
• Select models, platforms, APIs, and tools based on project requirements, and make build-versus-buy recommendations that favor the simplest effective solution
• Build and maintain integrations between AI tools, enterprise systems, and firm data sources using APIs, tool calling, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and approved integration standards
• Implement authentication, authorization, logging, retention, and least-privilege access controls that protect client and firm information, consistent with firm security and confidentiality requirements
• Work with practice groups, Business Analysts, and the Project Manager to define user needs, workflows, data requirements, success measures, and acceptance criteria
• Establish and apply standards for prompts, context, tool use, and evaluation, and validate response quality, reliability, performance, and cost before production release
• Monitor usage, adoption, cost, and user feedback for deployed solutions, and troubleshoot and resolve production issues
• Maintain technical and operational documentation sufficient for maintenance, review, and knowledge transfer
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend enhancements that improve effectiveness, scalability, and user adoption
• Perform other duties as assigned