Legal AI Engineer
Job in
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listing for:
axiomtalentplatform
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-11-15
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Design and implement AI-enabled workflows for contract lifecycle management and other legal technology platforms. The role connects legal operations with data science and engineering: turning contract processes and legal concepts into structured requirements, usable AI capabilities, and measurable quality controls.
Responsibilities- Define and deliver AI features for contract review, clause extraction and comparison, risk scoring, and natural-language analysis.
- Facilitate requirements sessions to map contract workflows, identify automation opportunities, and translate legal and business needs into technical plans.
- Configure contract workflows and maintain supporting templates, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, and fallback positions.
- Develop and curate legal datasets and annotation standards for model development and evaluation.
- Work with data science and engineering teams to test and improve models, comparing outputs with ground-truth examples and documenting performance gaps.
- Set quality assurance, human review, validation, and governance practices; prepare guidance and training to support adoption.
- Experience in legal AI or knowledge engineering, contract lifecycle management, contract automation, legal technology, or AI-supported legal operations.
- Hands-on implementation of AI or generative AI capabilities in a contract management platform.
- Ability to translate legal concepts into structured data, workflows, and technical requirements.
- Strong understanding of commercial contracts, clause structures, negotiation playbooks, risk, and contract lifecycle processes.
- Experience preparing or evaluating legal datasets and testing model outputs against ground truth.
- Skills in workflow mapping, requirements gathering, process design, and stakeholder facilitation.
- Knowledge of responsible AI, human review, data quality, privacy, compliance, and model governance.
- Ability to collaborate across legal, procurement, product, data science, engineering, and business teams.
The role is described as remote. The source gives broad compensation ranges for attorney and non-attorney positions, but does not specify which applies to this role. It also mentions possible health, dental, and vision coverage, paid holidays and time off, flexible work arrangements, and professional development support.
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