Overview
Member of Technical Staff, Legal Research
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Work Location: Remote
- Base Salary: $200,000–$250,000/year
This role supports research and development at the intersection of legal research, artificial intelligence, large language models, and agentic legal workflows. Responsibilities include creating rigorous methodologies for evaluating AI-powered legal reasoning and building frameworks for measuring performance across complex legal tasks.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain evaluation frameworks for AI agents operating in legal domains.
- Build benchmark suites, scoring methodologies, quality rubrics, and research-grade evaluation protocols.
- Conduct original research into legal reasoning, statutory interpretation, legal analysis, and workflow automation.
- Develop and curate datasets, case studies, and benchmark environments that reflect real-world legal challenges.
- Collaborate with AI researchers and engineers to evaluate and improve legal-focused models and agentic systems.
- Analyze model performance, reasoning quality, and failure modes across legal use cases.
- Document research findings, best practices, and evaluation methodologies.
- Monitor developments in legal technology, jurisprudence, regulatory environments, and AI research.
- Contribute to standards and frameworks for legal AI evaluation and benchmarking.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in Law, such as a JD, LLM, SJD, PhD in Law, or equivalent.
- Deep expertise in one or more legal domains, including:
- Corporate law
- Contracts
- Litigation
- Regulatory compliance
- Intellectual property
- Employment law
- Public policy
- Demonstrated experience in legal research, legal analysis, or policy research.
- Experience developing structured methodologies for assessing legal arguments, outcomes, or research quality.
- Exceptional analytical reasoning and written communication skills.
- Experience working across interdisciplinary teams involving research, technology, or legal operations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Legal technology, legal operations, or AI-enabled legal workflows.
- Legal benchmarking, research methodology, or legal knowledge management.
- Published legal scholarship or policy research.
- Contributions to legal standards, frameworks, or structured evaluation methodologies.
Compensation & Benefits
- Full-time remote position.
- Base salary: $200,000–$250,000/year.
- Equity compensation eligibility.
- Performance-based bonus eligibility, depending on role and applicable policies.
- Health insurance premium reimbursement of up to 100%.
- Paid time off.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Additional benefits associated with the role and employment arrangement.
Desired Skills
Legal research, Legal analysis, Policy research, Structured methodology development, Analytical reasoning, Written communication skills