Director of Legal Engineering / Director of AI Governance & Legal Technology

Overview

This role is for a privacy or IP attorney with a technical background who wants to move beyond the traditional law firm environment and help build AI systems.

Working as an individual contributor, you will sit directly between enterprise customers, data scientists, and engineering teams. You will help shape how large enterprise organizations run automated legal oversight and evaluation for their generative and agentic AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Build practical evaluation frameworks for complex agentic AI systems, including red-teaming tests.
• Translate legal obligations, regulatory guidance (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF), and compliance policies into concrete, testable software standards.
• Manage enterprise customer relationships and translate customer needs into product strategy.
• Design evaluation techniques for generative AI, agentic behavior, and tool-use failure modes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of combined professional experience across law firm practice (privacy/IP focus preferred) and pre-law technical roles.
• J.D. plus a background in Computer Science, Data Science, or software engineering.
• Practical coding experience and comfort working hands-on with data science teams.

Location

• 100% remote from anywhere in the U.S.