AI Legal Engineer

1 month ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom +21 moreMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$136k - $245k/yr

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, and deploy AI legal workflows and reusable skills for approved firm AI tools.
Partner with attorneys and knowledge management professionals to map workflows and translate practice needs into structured AI solutions.
Develop retrieval pipelines, document templates, workflow components, evaluation frameworks, and attorney-ready documentation.
Monitor workflow quality, accuracy, reliability, adoption, usage, and impact, and refine solutions based on feedback and outcomes.
Deliver training sessions, workshops, one-on-one coaching, playbooks, and enablement materials for attorneys and other legal audiences.
Maintain production workflows, including prompts, retrieval sources, guardrails, human-review checkpoints, and audit mechanisms.
Collaborate with AI Product, AI Adoption, Knowledge & Innovation, IT, Innovation Practice Group, and Professional Development teams.

JD or equivalent legal background, such as practicing attorney, knowledge lawyer, or paralegal with substantive practice experience.
3–6+ years of experience in legal, legal technology, knowledge management, practice innovation, or a comparable professional-services environment.
Demonstrated experience designing or implementing AI, automation, or workflow solutions in a legal or professional-services context.
Experience delivering training, enablement, or onboarding programs to attorney or client-facing audiences.
Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation concepts, model-output evaluation, and AI-enabled workflow design.
Working understanding of legal practice and attorney workflows, including appropriate human review, quality, accuracy, confidentiality, and risk controls.
Strong communication and relationship-building skills with attorneys, partners, and senior stakeholders.
Preferred experience at an AmLaw firm, in-house legal department, or legal technology company.
Preferred hands-on experience with workflow builders, prompt libraries, retrieval pipelines, AI evaluation methods, governance frameworks, and emerging AI regulation.
Light coding fluency in Python, SQL, or scripting is preferred but not required.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite or Microsoft 365.

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, including domestic partner coverage.
Life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, FSAs, HSAs, and dependent-care FSAs.
Health advocacy, behavioral health and counseling resources, backup dependent care, senior care planning, and caregiver resources.
401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays, and other paid time off, including paid leave for new parents.
Position may be based in Tampa or one of the firm's listed U.S. offices, with multiple locations available.

1,001-5,000 employees