Legal AI Engineer
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP18 hours ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$185k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design legal workflows and identify opportunities to automate processes, reduce time, and limit errors.
- Write, review, and refine prompts with NLP specialists to meet lawyers’ quality standards.
- Translate legal requirements into technical specifications and explain technical constraints to lawyers.
- Configure, test, and iterate AI tools for real legal use cases.
- Provide first-line support to lawyers and convert feedback into prioritized input for engineers.
- Work with AI coding assistants, configuration files, scripts, and command-line tools while learning required tools.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in or alongside legal teams, including drafting, review, summarization, and data extraction.
- JD strongly preferred, or extensive experience working with legal teams.
- Knowledge of legal-work principles including accuracy, explainability, confidentiality, privilege, rigor, risk awareness, and accountability.
- Working knowledge of AI concepts such as agents, retrieval, chain-of-thought prompting, and few-shot learning.
- Familiarity with legal AI tools and the legal AI landscape, including Harvey, Legora, Thomson Reuters, and LexisNexis.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining model limitations and legal risk concerns.
- Self-direction and willingness to learn code editors and basic scripting; prior coding experience is not required.
- Preferred experience in practice development, knowledge management, legal operations, legal service delivery, startups, legal technology, no-code or low-code builders, scripting, or code editors.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including health care benefits.
- Opportunity to build AI workflows from the ground up at a global law firm and collaborate across AI, product, design, and engineering.
- Small, ambitious team with opportunities to contribute ideas and learn new disciplines.
- Exempt position not eligible for overtime pay.
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About Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is an international law firm advising corporations, financial institutions, and governments on complex transactions, disputes, and regulatory matters. Founded in 1946 and headquartered in New York, it operates as a single, integrated global partnership with 14 offices in major financial centers. The firm serves clients worldwide across corporate, finance, antitrust, and litigation practices, with lawyers drawn from more than 50 countries.