Legal AI Engineer

It's fun to work at a company where people truly believe in what they are doing!

Job Description:

We're looking for a rare hybrid: an attorney with real experience in corporate legal work -- litigation, investigations, regulatory/compliance -- and who is equally energized by technology, AI, and building things.

As a Legal Engineer, you will work side-by-side with scientists, engineers, and product leaders to build the next generation of AI systems for in-house legal teams and law firms. You will use your legal expertise and your technical instincts to shape datasets, workflows, capabilities, and use-cases that truly reflect how legal work is done in the real world.

This is not a passive advisory role. It's an applied, creative, and execution-heavy position at the intersection of law, product, AI research, and user experience.

What You'll Do

1. Build and Shape Legal Datasets

* Design and synthesize realistic corpora representing litigation, investigations, compliance, ECA, privilege review, and corporate workflows.

* Generate and annotate training and benchmarking datasets for AI models.

* Partner with ML teams to define task specifications, evaluation metrics, and model requirements grounded in real legal use-cases.

2. Drive Product and Use-Case Definition

* Ideate, refine, and validate new product capabilities based on authentic attorney workflows and pain points.

* Translate legal processes into structured workflows, runbooks, and agentic patterns for the AI platform.

* Critically evaluate proposed features for real-world feasibility, risk, defensibility, and legal accuracy.

3. Engage Directly With Clients

* Join client conversations, demos, and sales meetings to translate technical concepts into language that resonates with attorneys.

* Help articulate the value, differentiation, and defensibility of the platform to in-house counsel and law firm partners.

* Collaborate with marketing to craft content, examples, demos, and narratives that speak to legal audiences.

4. Prototype, Hack, and Build

* Use AI tools, scripting, and light coding to prototype workflows, simulate datasets, or mock up product ideas.

* Move quickly from concept → prototype → feedback → refinement.

* Contribute to documentation, testing scenarios, and internal tools that accelerate the pace of innovation.

5. Execute Reliably in a Fast, Ambitious Environment

* Deliver high-quality work under deadlines.

* Go deep, learn quickly, and iterate with the engineering team.

* Contribute to a culture of creativity + hard execution -- big ideas paired with disciplined follow-through.

Who You Are

Required Background

* JD + active or prior bar membership.

* 2-8+ years practicing law, ideally in one or more of:

* Litigation

* Government or internal investigations

* E-discovery / document review oversight

* Compliance, regulatory, white-collar, ECA

* Deep familiarity with real workflows: privilege review, deposition prep, investigations, custodian interviews, factual development, matter management, etc.

Technical / Product Orientation

* Fluent in technology; comfortable working with engineers and product teams.

* Ability to write simple scripts, prompt LLMs effectively, analyze outputs, or use AI tools creatively.

* Strong instinct for how legal reasoning maps to data, rules, workflows, and model behavior.

* Curiosity about how AI models work and desire to build systems that outperform today's legal tech.

Mindset

* Hacker mentality: scrappy, curious, willing to experiment and build.

* High execution: able to go heads-down and deliver.

* Creative + rigorous: big ideas combined with legal defensibility and precision.

* Motivated by building something new-not just using tools, but helping invent the next generation of them.

* Comfortable in ambiguity, fast iteration, and rapid feedback cycles.

Bonus Skills

* Experience in e-discovery platforms, investigative workflows, or doc review management.

* Exposure to ML/AI concepts, synthetic data generation, or structured knowledge representation.

* Prior experience in legal tech, product design, research, or innovation-focused roles.

Why Join Us

* Work directly with world-class AI researchers and engineers building a first-of-its-kind…