Legal Engineer / Midtown / AI + ex Lawyer
New York, New York
Direct Hire
$170k - $220k
Location: Hybrid, NYC (4 days onsite)
Team: Advanced AI Platform / AI Labs
Type: Full-Time
A fast-moving AI team is building next-generation systems for litigation, investigations, compliance, and corporate legal work—and is looking for a Legal Engineer who blends real legal experience with strong technical instincts. This role sits at the intersection of law, product, AI research, and user experience.
What You’ll Do-
Shape legal datasets representing litigation, investigations, compliance, privilege review, ECA, and corporate workflows.
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Define product capabilities by translating authentic legal processes into structured workflows, task specs, and agentic patterns for AI systems.
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Work directly with clients to explain capabilities, gather feedback, and help position the platform to in-house legal teams and law firms.
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Prototype and build using LLMs, scripting, and rapid experimentation to turn ideas into functional demos or workflows.
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Execute quickly in a fast-paced environment with high ownership and tight iteration cycles.
Required
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JD + active/prior bar membership.
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2–8+ years in litigation, investigations, regulatory/compliance, e-discovery, or adjacent corporate legal work.
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Hands-on experience with real workflows: privilege review, depositions, factual development, custodian interviews, matter management, etc.
Technical / Product Orientation
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Fluent working with engineers and product teams.
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Ability to prompt LLMs, analyze outputs, use AI tools, or write light scripts.
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Strong intuition for mapping legal reasoning ? data, rules, workflows, and model behaviors.
Mindset
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Builder/hacker mentality; creative but rigorous.
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High execution, comfortable with ambiguity, iteration, and rapid experimentation.
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Motivated to help invent the next generation of legal AI—not just use it.
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Experience with e-discovery platforms or investigative workflows.
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Exposure to ML/AI concepts, synthetic data, or structured knowledge systems.
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Background in legal tech, product, innovation, or R&D-style roles.
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Work with top AI researchers and engineers on a first-of-its-kind legal AI platform.
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Directly shape system design, roadmap, and capabilities used by major enterprises and leading law firms.
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High-impact, startup-style environment with rapid iteration, ownership, and deep collaboration.
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Build foundational technology that will define the future of legal practice.
A small, highly technical R&D group operating like a startup inside a globally respected legal services organization. Born from a cutting-edge AI acquisition, the team builds advanced systems for litigation, investigations, compliance, and complex corporate workflows—moving fast, experimenting constantly, and pushing the boundary of what’s possible in legal AI.