Legal Expert Lead, Gemini Data, DeepMind

Google LLC; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 130,000 - 133,000; Full time

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Job summary

DeepMind is expanding Gemini’s frontier AI capabilities into specialized professional domains. As part of the Legal Expert Lead, you will map complex Legal workflows, curate high-quality data, and shape the foundational data strategy for the Legal sector.

You will collaborate across research and vendor networks to ensure data coverage, quality, and realism, while guiding SMEs and enforcing vendor quality to enable Gemini as the leading AI assistant for Legal professionals.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree, Master of Laws (LLM), or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience measuring the performance of LLMs or generative AI tools and optimizing them for legal use cases.

Responsibilities

• Set the Legal data strategy by mapping workflows into a use-case taxonomy, and partnering with research to prioritize capabilities, data coverage, and sourcing pipelines.
• Create high-quality Legal data by designing tasks and rubrics, and QA-ing datasets from vendors, customers, and synthetic pipelines for correctness, realism, and coverage.
• Steer data priorities using model failures by reproducing reported losses and stress-testing checkpoints on real workflows to identify missing legal knowledge and false assumptions.
• Build Legal evaluations by assessing industry benchmarks to measure data strategy success, and advise cross-team evaluation efforts on legal coverage and realism.
• Scale expertise by recruiting and guiding Subject Matter Expert (SMEs), acting as the domain authority to enforce vendor quality, and converting expert contributions into usable training data.

Skills

AI evaluation

Programming

Legal tech

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

JD or LLM

Legal practical experience

Tools

Python

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

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• Juris Doctor (JD) degree, Master of Laws (LLM), or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience measuring the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) or generative AI tools and optimizing them for legal use cases.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience prioritizing AI capabilities and collaborating closely with cross-functional technical partners to unlock value for legal professionals.
• Experience breaking down legal workflows into concrete tasks, evaluation rubrics, and quality standards.
• Demonstrated dual expertise bridging law and AI, such as transitioning from a legal practitioner into a technical machine learning role, or vice versa.
• Strong technical capabilities, including programming proficiency, evaluating machine learning models, and applying Large Language Models to complex legal workflows.

About the job

At DeepMind, we are expanding Gemini’s frontier AI capabilities into highly specialized professional domains. As a part of a Legal Expert Lead, you will shape our foundational data strategy for the Legal sector. In this role, you will apply your deep domain knowledge to map complex Legal workflows, identify critical areas for model enhancement, and curate the high-quality data necessary to make Gemini the ultimate AI assistant for Legal professionals.Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

France: €130000 - €133000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Set the Legal data strategy by mapping workflows into a use-case taxonomy, and partnering with research to prioritize capabilities, data coverage, and sourcing pipelines.
• Create high-quality Legal data by designing tasks and rubrics, and QA-ing datasets from vendors, customers, and synthetic pipelines for correctness, realism, and coverage.
• Steer data priorities using model failures by reproducing reported losses and stress-testing checkpoints on real workflows to identify missing legal knowledge and false assumptions.
• Build Legal evaluations by assessing industry benchmarks to measure data strategy success, and advise cross-team evaluation efforts on legal coverage and realism.
• Scale expertise by recruiting and guiding Subject Matter Expert (SMEs), acting as the domain authority to enforce vendor quality, and converting expert contributions into usable training data.

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