Senior Legal AI Engineer

Overview

This role involves working at the intersection of engineering, law, and client impact by partnering with lawyers, AI engineers, and solution architects to discover, design, and deploy bespoke legal AI solutions. It is a customer-facing position ideal for individuals with experience practicing law and building AI software solutions. The work focuses on translating complex legal workflows into trusted, production-ready AI systems that support law firms in high-stakes situations.

Responsibilities

• Participate in high-value client engagements, guiding technical discovery, scoping legal use cases, and building credibility with legal and technical stakeholders.
• Translate complex legal workflows, business pain points, and client goals into intelligent solution designs, technical specifications, and implementation plans.
• Design and implement AI-powered solutions for legal workflows such as contract review, litigation support, discovery automation, and regulatory analysis.
• Collaborate with forward deployed engineers to build and test retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, custom AI agents, and multi-step workflows leveraging enterprise systems.
• Lead large language model (LLM) evaluation efforts for legal use cases, including benchmarking output quality, assessing hallucination risk, testing citation quality, and validating fitness for high-stakes legal work.
• Ensure deployed solutions comply with ethical AI, data protection, and enterprise security standards while maintaining trust with legal professionals.
• Contribute reusable solution assets and evaluate emerging AI techniques to improve quality and delivery across the team.

Requirements

• JD, formal legal training, or equivalent depth of experience working within a legal practice environment.
• Fluency in legal terminology and demonstrated experience working directly with lawyers, legal teams, or legal operations stakeholders.
• Software engineering experience, including AI/ML or LLM-powered application development.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Strong understanding of machine learning concepts, LLM evaluation methodologies, prompt engineering, and AI system design for domain-specific workflows.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently in ambiguous, client-facing settings with both legal and technical stakeholders.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range for eligible U.S. locations: $100,100 USD - $185,900 USD, positioned based on knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity.
• Eligibility for an annual bonus based on enterprise and individual performance.
• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Competitive 401(k) plan with company match.
• Flexible vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays including two company mental health days.
• Parental leave and sabbatical leave.
• Optional employee-paid hospital, accident, sickness, life, and AD&D insurance.
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
• Fitness reimbursement and Employee Assistance Program.
• Group Legal Identity Theft Protection (employee-paid).
• Access to 529 Plan, commuter benefits, adoption and surrogacy assistance.
• Tuition reimbursement and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Location

This role is open to eligible U.S. locations with flexible work arrangements, including work-from-anywhere options for up to 8 weeks per year.

Additional Information

This job posting will close on 08/20/2026.

The organization is committed to equal employment opportunity and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.