AI Legal Engineer
Holland & Knight1 day ago
Birmingham, United Kingdom +20 moreMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$136k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and deploy AI-enabled legal workflows for contract review, due diligence, drafting, research, and summarization.
- Partner with attorneys and knowledge management professionals to identify use cases, map workflows, and translate practice needs into structured AI solutions.
- Develop and maintain retrieval pipelines, document templates, reusable workflow components, documentation, prompts, retrieval sources, and guardrails.
- Build evaluation frameworks and monitor workflow quality, accuracy, reliability, adoption, usage, and impact metrics.
- Deliver training sessions, workshops, one-to-one coaching, playbooks, and enablement materials for attorneys and other legal audiences.
- Develop standards, use-case libraries, and governance practices incorporating human review, verification, confidentiality, auditability, and professional responsibility controls.
- Collaborate with AI Product, AI Adoption, Knowledge & Innovation, IT, Innovation Practice Group, and Professional Development teams.
- Maintain production workflows and update them in response to model or platform changes, user feedback, and evolving practice needs.
Requirements
- 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 setting.
- Experience delivering training, enablement, or onboarding programs to attorney or client-facing audiences.
- Ability to design AI-enabled workflows involving prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation concepts, and evaluation of model outputs.
- Working understanding of legal practice and attorney workflows, including judgment about where AI is appropriate.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills with attorneys, partners, and senior stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of legal AI vendors such as Harvey, Legora, and Microsoft Copilot, and familiarity with modern AI workflow builders.
- Preferred experience at an AmLaw firm, in-house legal department, or legal technology company.
- Preferred hands-on experience with workflow builders, prompt libraries, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, AI evaluation methods, AI 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.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, including domestic-partner coverage.
- Life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, FSAs, HSAs, dependent-care FSAs, and 401(k) with profit sharing.
- Health advocacy, behavioral health and counseling resources, backup dependent care, senior care planning, and caregiver support resources.
- Paid holidays and other paid time off, including paid leave for new parents.
- The position may be based in Tampa, Florida, or one of the Firm’s listed offices, including Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and others.
- The role is available in multiple locations, with location-dependent compensation ranges and bonus opportunities.
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About Holland & Knight
Holland & Knight is a global law firm that provides litigation, transactional, regulatory, and advisory services to businesses, financial institutions, healthcare organizations, real estate developers, and government entities. The partnership is headquartered in Tampa, Florida, with 36 offices worldwide and more than 2,200 lawyers and other professionals. Core practices include business and financial services, real estate, healthcare, wealth and tax, and governmental law.