AI Legal Engineer
Core
Design, build, and operationalize AI-enabled workflows (prompt design, RAG, retrieval pipelines) to solve concrete problems for law firm practice groups and equip attorneys to govern their own AI workflows.
Role type
Senior IC AI Legal Engineer (Legal Tech)
Builds
Production AI legal workflows for contract review, due diligence, drafting, research, and summarization
Domain
Legal services / Legal Technology
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Prompt engineering, Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI workflow design, Legal practice knowledge, Training and enablement delivery, Change management, Evaluation framework design, Risk and governance controls
Preferred skills
Light coding (Python, SQL), AI governance frameworks, Modern AI workflow builders
Technologies
Harvey, Legora, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft 365
Responsibilities
Design and deploy AI workflows for legal tasks; Partner with attorneys to map workflows and translate needs into AI solutions; Develop retrieval pipelines and document templates; Execute evaluation frameworks for quality and accuracy; Lead enablement, training, and change management for AI adoption; Embed human-review checkpoints and audit mechanisms; Track adoption metrics and recommend refinements; Maintain production workflows and guardrails
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC