Description
NetDocuments is seeking a Legal Engineer to evaluate and improve the performance of its systems and products requiring legal knowledge for quality assurance.
The Legal Engineer will partner with product managers, engineering managers, and designers to design and implement legal quality assurance evaluations and platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Define what correct means for legal AI output and design, build, and implement trustworthy, repeatable evaluations and software tools.
- Contribute legal experience to product teams on an advisory basis.
- Find and prove out changes to existing systems that improve legal quality performance.
Requirements:
- JD, LLB, or equivalent legal qualification, or a Bachelor’s Degree plus 3+ years working directly in legal practice, legal knowledge management, or legal operations.
- Experience building executable software systems that work on legal data and improve legal workflows.
- Experience working with structured data and formats such as JSON, XML, and Markdown.
Nice-to-Have Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience with the evaluation of non-deterministic systems, including data curation and generation, grading, evaluation metrics and techniques.
- Experience building and improving agentic workflows for legal tasks.
- Knowledge of Computational Law techniques outside of machine learning.
Benefits:
- 90% healthcare premiums company covered
- HSA company contribution
- 401K match at 4% with immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year)
- 10 paid holidays
- Monthly contributions for wellness
- Access to LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore