AI Legal Engineer
$163,000–$245,000 year
On-siteChicago, Illinois, United States or Miami, Florida, United States
Job Summary
Design, build, and deploy AI legal workflows for contract review, due diligence, and research using firm-approved tools. Partner with attorneys to identify high-value use cases, map processes, and translate practice needs into structured solutions with retrieval pipelines and guardrails. Execute evaluation frameworks to measure accuracy and reliability while embedding human-review checkpoints aligned with governance requirements. Serve as a go-to resource for enablement, delivering training, coaching, and playbooks to drive sustained adoption across practice groups. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to scale best-practice standards and track usage metrics for continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications
- Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent legal background (e.g., practicing attorney, knowledge lawyer, paralegal with substantive practice experience)
- 3–6+ years of experience in legal, legal technology, knowledge management, practice innovation, or a comparable professional-services environment
- Demonstrated experience designing or implementing AI, automation, or workflow solutions in a legal or professional-services context
- Experience delivering training, enablement, or onboarding programs to attorney or client-facing audiences
- Demonstrated ability to design and build AI-enabled workflows in legal or professional-services settings, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) concepts, and evaluation of model outputs
- Working understanding of legal practice and attorney workflows, with the judgment to identify where AI is, and is not, appropriate
- Strong interpersonal skills with experience building trusted relationships with attorneys, including partners and senior stakeholders
- Clear, confident communicator able to teach AI concepts and workflow-building skills to non-technical legal audiences in practical terms
- Comfort iterating in ambiguity: scoping a use case, building a prototype, gathering feedback, and refining toward a production-ready workflow
- Strong attention to quality, accuracy, and risk; instinct to build in human-review and verification steps for legal output
- Consistently reliable, responsive, and solutions oriented
- Working knowledge of the legal AI vendor landscape (e.g., Harvey, Legora, Microsoft Copilot, and similar) and familiarity with the components of modern AI workflow builders
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, or Microsoft 365
- Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time
- Moderate or advanced keyboard usage
Desired Qualifications
- Prior experience at an AmLaw firm, in-house legal department, or legal technology company (e.g., Harvey, Legora, or similar)
- Hands-on experience with workflow builders, prompt libraries, RAG pipelines, and AI evaluation methods
- Familiarity with AI governance frameworks and emerging AI regulation relevant to legal practice
- Light coding fluency (e.g., Python, SQL, or scripting) a plus but not required
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