Legal AI Engineer

Who We Are

Fredrikson & Byron is the premier Midwest-based law firm working collaboratively to help businesses achieve their goals regionally, nationally, and globally.

We are seeking a Legal AI Engineer to help design and scale how AI is applied across the firm’s legal and business workflows. This role sits within the Research & Knowledge Management (RKM) team as part of Legal Operations and partners closely with attorneys, practice groups, Legal Operations, and IT. In this role, you will play a key part in the firm’s AI enablement and growth.

You will collaborate with legal and operational teams to understand how they work, and translate those insights into AI-powered agents, workflows, prompt strategies, practical guidance, and automations that make work faster, more consistent, and more reliable. The focus includes designing and implementing AI-enabled workflows, expanding the use of attorney-facing AI tools, helping users craft and refine effective prompts, and developing scalable, repeatable approaches across practice groups.

• Partner with attorneys, practice groups, and operations teams to understand their workflows, pain points and goals, and identify high-value opportunities for AI, prompt support, and automation.
• Design and build AI agents, workflows, prompt-enabled solutions, and other AI tools using platforms such as Copilot, Harvey, and similar legal and enterprise AI tools.
• Advise attorneys and staff on prompt design, including how to frame legal questions, provide context, evaluate outputs, and refine prompts for accuracy, reliability, and repeatable results.
• Develop, test, and maintain prompt libraries, playbooks, and examples that help legal professionals use AI tools effectively in day-to-day work.
• Plan and run prompt optimization workshops, office hours, and hands-on support sessions for attorneys and staff using AI tools.
• Convert institutional knowledge into reusable assets (prompts, prompt libraries, workflows, decision models, and training materials).
• Build automations and integrations using tools like Microsoft Power Automate to connect AI capabilities with the firm’s existing data, systems, and document workflows.
• Translate legal processes into scalable, reusable solutions rather than one-off fixes, with an eye toward firm-wide adoption.
• Document solutions clearly and partner with the Legal AI Program Manager and Research Librarians to train attorneys and staff on how to use AI tools, prompts, and workflows effectively.
• Monitor performance, gather feedback, and iterate to improve accuracy, usability and adoption over time.
• Stay current on the evolving GenAI landscape and recommend new tools, prompt practices, and approaches.
• Champion responsible, secure, and ethical use of AI within the firm’s confidentiality and professional responsibility obligations.

• J.D. or a substantive legal background or legal technology background is strongly preferred
• Experience implementing scalable AI tools in legal workflows (e.g., designing and optimizing prompts, building agents, evaluating outputs, and translating feedback into improvements)
• Experience coaching or training legal professionals on prompt design, AI tool use, and adoption best practices
• Demonstrated experience with legal and enterprise AI platforms including Harvey, CoCounsel, and Copilot
• Experience supporting or driving technology adoption within a law firm or professional services environment
• Familiarity with workflow automation and data integration tools (Power Automate, APIs, SQL, etc.)
• Ability to surface underlying user needs and translate them into technical solutions, prompt strategies, and practical enablement resources
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills across attorneys, business teams, and technical partners
• Comfort working independently in an emerging and fast-changing field
• Understanding of data handling considerations, including security, access controls, and responsible AI use

Our comprehensive benefits options include medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short- and long-term disability,…