Legal AI Engineer

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Job Description:

We're looking for a rare hybrid: an attorney with real experience in corporate legal work -- litigation, investigations, regulatory/compliance -- and who is equally energized by technology, AI, and building things.

As a Legal Engineer, you will work side-by-side with scientists, engineers, and product leaders to build the next generation of AI systems for in-house legal teams and law firms. You will use your legal expertise and your technical instincts to shape datasets, workflows, capabilities, and use-cases that truly reflect how legal work is done in the real world.

This is not a passive advisory role. It's an applied, creative, and execution-heavy position at the intersection of law, product, AI research, and user experience.

What You'll Do

1. Build and Shape Legal Datasets

• Design and synthesize realistic corpora representing litigation, investigations, compliance, ECA, privilege review, and corporate workflows.
• Generate and annotate training and benchmarking datasets for AI models.
• Partner with ML teams to define task specifications, evaluation metrics, and model requirements grounded in real legal use-cases.

2. Drive Product and Use-Case Definition

• Ideate, refine, and validate new product capabilities based on authentic attorney workflows and pain points.
• Translate legal processes into structured workflows, runbooks, and agentic patterns for the AI platform.
• Critically evaluate proposed features for real-world feasibility, risk, defensibility, and legal accuracy.

3. Engage Directly With Clients

• Join client conversations, demos, and sales meetings to translate technical concepts into language that resonates with attorneys.
• Help articulate the value, differentiation, and defensibility of the platform to in-house counsel and law firm partners.
• Collaborate with marketing to craft content, examples, demos, and narratives that speak to legal audiences.

4. Prototype, Hack, and Build

• Use AI tools, scripting, and light coding to prototype workflows, simulate datasets, or mock up product ideas.
• Move quickly from concept → prototype → feedback → refinement.
• Contribute to documentation, testing scenarios, and internal tools that accelerate the pace of innovation.

5. Execute Reliably in a Fast, Ambitious Environment

• Deliver high-quality work under deadlines.
• Go deep, learn quickly, and iterate with the engineering team.
• Contribute to a culture of creativity + hard execution -- big ideas paired with disciplined follow-through.

Who You Are

Required Background

• JD + active or prior bar membership.
• 2-8+ years practicing law, ideally in one or more of:
  • Litigation
  • Government or internal investigations
  • E-discovery / document review oversight
  • Compliance, regulatory, white-collar, ECA
• Deep familiarity with real workflows: privilege review, deposition prep, investigations, custodian interviews, factual development, matter management, etc.

Technical / Product Orientation

• Fluent in technology; comfortable working with engineers and product teams.
• Ability to write simple scripts, prompt LLMs effectively, analyze outputs, or use AI tools creatively.
• Strong instinct for how legal reasoning maps to data, rules, workflows, and model behavior.
• Curiosity about how AI models work and desire to build systems that outperform today's legal tech.

Mindset

• Hacker mentality: scrappy, curious, willing to experiment and build.
• High execution: able to go heads-down and deliver.
• Creative + rigorous: big ideas combined with legal defensibility and precision.
• Motivated by building something new-not just using tools, but helping invent the next generation of them.
• Comfortable in ambiguity, fast iteration, and rapid feedback cycles.

Bonus Skills

• Experience in e-discovery platforms, investigative workflows, or doc review management.
• Exposure to ML/AI concepts, synthetic data generation, or structured knowledge representation.
• Prior experience in legal tech, product design, research, or innovation-focused roles.

Why Join Us

• Work directly with world-class AI researchers and engineers building a first-of-its-kind corporate legal AI platform.
• Influence the roadmap, design, and capabilities of flagship systems used by major corporations and global law firms.
• Play a foundational role in shaping the future of legal practice and the next generation of intelligent legal infrastructure.
• Move fast, collaborate deeply, and build something that truly matters.

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About Us

Epiq AI Labs is the advanced R&D group driving the development of Epiq's next-generation AI platform for corporate legal departments and law firms. Born from the acquisition of Laer AI, we operate like a fast, product-obsessed startup inside a well-resourced global ALSP.

We're a small, highly collaborative, deeply technical team of engineers, scientists, and legal experts building AI systems that push the boundaries of what's possible in litigation, investigations, compliance, and knowledge-intensive corporate workflows.

Our culture is 100% startup: rapid iteration, low bureaucracy, real ownership, constant innovation-and a team that genuinely enjoys working together. We're scaling quickly and looking for people who want to help invent the future of legal AI.

The Compensation range for this role is 175,000 to 260,000 USD annually and may be eligible for an annual bonus.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer.

Your specific salary will be determined based on several factors:

• Location-based market rate for the role
• Your abilities in relation to the job specification
• Performance during screening and interview
• Pay parity with the wider team in the considered location

Further details about the package will be provided during the initial screening call with the Talent Acquisition Team.

Click here to learn about Epiq's Benefits.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us

It is Epiq's policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual's race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. In addition Epiq will take affirmative action for minorities, women, covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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