Legal Engineer

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Full Time Professional New York, New York, NY, US

5 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

You are a highly motivated self-starter looking to propel your career to the next level in a thriving and collegial professional environment.

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP (TKD) is an entrepreneurial, growing, and highly supportive firm located in the heart of New York City. Our position as a mid-size firm promotes a work environment that fosters relationship building inside and outside of the office.

We care about each other, our clients, the work we do, and the communities in which we live. It’s the kind of environment where every employee can develop into their best professional selves, where everyone’s contributions matter, and where each employee makes a real difference right from the start. TKD is a place to challenge, share ideas, and contribute your ideas and skills as part of an exceptional team.

Each day holds an opportunity to make a real impact.

The firm is currently building a dedicated AI function — one of the most substantive investments in legal technology infrastructure a firm of our size has undertaken — and this role is the cornerstone of that effort.

The Legal Engineer is the bridge between TKD's attorneys and its AI infrastructure. This is not a technology role that happens to sit near lawyers — it is a legal operations role that requires deep fluency in both legal practice and AI tooling. The person in this role will own the attorney-facing layer of the firm's AI program: designing workflows, managing pilots, running training and adoption, and ensuring that AI capabilities translate into genuine value inside legal practice.

This role works in close collaboration with the Head of AI, training co‑lead, and the incoming AI Engineer. It is a high‑visibility, high‑impact position with significant room to shape how the firm builds and evolves its AI function over time.

• Design and build AI‑enabled legal workflows across practice areas, including litigation, transactional, business immigration, and corporate
• Translate attorney needs into structured, repeatable workflow architectures that leverage AI platforms effectively
• Document and maintain workflow templates, playbooks, and standard operating procedures
• Identify and scope high‑ROI workflow automation opportunities across the firm
• Serve as the primary day‑to‑day manager of vendor pilots
• Coordinate between pilot participants, vendor support teams, and firm leadership
• Collect structured feedback, develop evaluation scorecards, and synthesize results for the Fractional Head of AI and executive committee
• Manage pilot timelines, participation, and vendor communications

• Co‑lead firm‑wide AI training and adoption program.
• Develop and deliver training sessions tailored to different practice areas and staff functions
• Host recurring office hours for attorneys seeking one‑on‑one platform support
• Identify and cultivate super users and practice group AI leads across the firm
• Support the intern desk‑to‑desk support program as a supervisor and resource
• Develop deep proficiency in each AI platform deployed by the firm — going beyond standard user training to the level of real‑time troubleshooting and workflow coaching
• Stay current on platform updates, new features, and competitive alternatives
• Maintain working relationships with vendor contacts and serve as a liaison between the firm and vendor support teams
• Support vendor evaluation processes under the direction of the Fractional Head of AI

• Establish error handling protocols and quality review processes for AI‑generated outputs in legal workflows
• Maintain a structured feedback loop between attorneys, the AI function, and firm leadership
• Track and document AI use cases across practice groups — what is working, what is not, and what the data suggests about next steps