Legal Engineer
Core
Translate legal workflows into AI requirements, evaluate model outputs, and build trusted legal AI systems.
Role type
Legal Engineer (AI Product & Model Evaluation)
Builds
Legal AI systems for case summarization, document analysis, and workflow automation
Domain
Legal Technology / AI / Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Legal domain expertise, AI/ML understanding, prompt engineering, model evaluation, rubric creation, data annotation management, technical communication
Preferred skills
Experience with litigation/insurance workflows, knowledge systems, human-in-the-loop review patterns
Technologies
LLMs, retrieval pipelines, prompt engineering frameworks, data annotation platforms
Responsibilities
Translate legal tasks into AI system requirements, define quality standards for legal AI outputs, evaluate model behavior across use cases, create evaluation rubrics and golden answers, partner with data annotation teams, identify edge cases and hallucination patterns, provide feedback to ML and Product teams, refine prompts and agent workflows
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC