Senior AI Engineer at Binance - LegalTech & RAG Systems in Columbus

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. We are trusted by 300+ million people in 100+ countries for our industry-leading security, user fund transparency, trading engine speed, deep liquidity, and an unmatched portfolio of digital-asset products. Binance offerings range from trading and finance to education, research, payments, institutional services, and more. Our mission is to increase the freedom of money and financial access for people around the world.

About The Role

This role works on Americas business hours, with a schedule that overlaps with our Legal, Compliance, and MLRO teams. Legal and Compliance is building AI tools to support our regulatory work, helping the team review policies, track launch requirements, and manage complex legal documents more efficiently. In this role, you'll design and evaluate the LLM and retrieval systems that support these tasks, with all outputs reviewed by our Legal and Compliance professionals. You'll have room to experiment, prototype quickly, and help shape how the team uses these tools.

What You'll Do

• Work closely with Legal, Compliance, and the MLRO to support internal compliance policy reviews, files delivery, remediation tracking, and technical support.
• Track compliance-related requirements for new product and service launches, and coordinate action items with relevant stakeholders.
• Partner with Legal and Compliance teams to identify, design, and implement AI-driven solutions that improve the efficiency and scalability of compliance and legal operations.
• Build and enhance intelligent systems leveraging LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, long-term memory, tool use, subagents, and multi-agent architectures for handling law files.
• Develop benchmark frameworks and evaluation methodologies for legal and compliance AI systems, including benchmark dataset construction, annotation strategy design, and performance measurement.
• Continuously evaluate and improve systems across retrieval quality, latency, groundedness, factuality, and task success metrics.
• Conduct independent research and rapidly prototype new ideas to solve ambiguous legal and compliance workflow challenges.
• Support related administrative and operational activities in accordance with company compliance requirements.

What We're Looking For

• Solid experience in compliance technology, legal technology, regulatory technology, or software/application development supporting compliance or legal functions.
• Strong understanding of relevant compliance rules, regulations, and day-to-day compliance operations.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is required (e.g., AI, Computer Science).
• Hands-on experience building production RAG systems, including embeddings, vector databases, hybrid search, reranking, chunking strategies, text preprocessing, and multimodal parsing.
• Strong understanding of LLM and agent fundamentals, including prompt engineering, context engineering, memory, planning, tool use, MCP, and multi-agent systems.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research, solve ambiguous problems, and rapidly prototype practical solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to Haves

• Experience working in a legal/compliance-related firm or domain.
• Experience implementing advanced Agentic RAG approaches such as Self-RAG, Corrective RAG, adaptive retrieval, and multi-hop reasoning workflows.
• Bilingual English/Mandarin, to coordinate with overseas partners and stakeholders.

Annual Base Salary

$186,300 — $347,300 USD

Why Binance

• Shape the future of finance.
• Collaborate with world-class talent in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure.
• Tackle challenging projects in a fast-paced and innovative environment with autonomy.
• Thrive in a results-driven workplace with opportunities for career growth and continuous learning.
• Competitive salary and company benefits.
• Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the nature of the role and team).

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