Junior Legal AI Engineer
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP18 hours ago
Base Salary
$120k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design legal workflows and identify opportunities to automate legal processes.
- Write, review, and refine prompts with NLP specialists.
- Translate legal requirements into technical specifications and explain technical constraints to lawyers.
- Configure, test, and iterate AI tools for legal use cases.
- Provide first-line support to lawyers and convert feedback into prioritized engineering input.
- Work with engineers using AI coding assistants, command-line tools, templates, configuration, and scripts.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in or alongside legal teams, including drafting, review, summarization, and data extraction.
- Working knowledge of AI concepts including agents, retrieval, chain-of-thought prompting, and few-shot learning.
- Understanding of legal-work principles such as accuracy, explainability, confidentiality, privilege, rigor, risk awareness, and accountability.
- Familiarity with 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 product-led teams.
Benefits
- Build AI legal workflows from the ground up at a global law firm.
- Join a small, ambitious team and collaborate across AI, product, design, and engineering.
- Opportunity to contribute ideas and learn new technical and AI skills.
- Comprehensive benefits package including health care benefits.
- The role is exempt and 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.