Legal Engineer​/Midtown​/AI + ex Lawyer

Legal Engineer — AI for Litigation, Investigations & Corporate Legal

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.

• Shape legal datasets representing litigation, investigations, compliance, privilege review, ECA, and corporate workflows.

• Define product capabilities by translating authentic legal processes into structured workflows, task specs, and agentic patterns for AI systems.

• Work directly with clients to explain capabilities, gather feedback, and help position the platform to in‑house legal teams and law firms.

• Prototype and build using LLMs, scripting, and rapid experimentation to turn ideas into functional demos or workflows.

• Execute quickly in a fast‑paced environment with high ownership and tight iteration cycles.

• JD + active/prior bar membership.

• 2–8+ years in litigation, investigations, regulatory/compliance, e‑discovery, or adjacent corporate legal work.

• Hands‑on experience with real workflows: privilege review, depositions, factual development, custodian interviews, matter management, etc.

• Fluent working with engineers and product teams.

• Ability to prompt LLMs, analyze outputs, use AI tools, or write light scripts.

• Strong intuition for mapping legal reasoning — data, rules, workflows, and model behaviors.

• Builder/hacker mentality; creative but rigorous.

• High execution, comfortable with ambiguity, iteration, and rapid experimentation.

• Motivated to help invent the next generation of legal AI—not just use it.

• Experience with e‑discovery platforms or investigative workflows.

• Exposure to ML/AI concepts, synthetic data, or structured knowledge systems.

• Background in legal tech, product, innovation, or R&D‑style roles.

• Work with top AI researchers and engineers on a first‑of‑its‑kind legal AI platform.

• Directly shape system design, roadmap, and capabilities used by major enterprises and leading law firms.

• High‑impact, startup‑style environment with rapid iteration, ownership, and deep collaboration.

• 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.