AI-Driven Legal Workflow Engineer

Dentons US LLP; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dentons US LLP seeks a Legal AI Engineer to translate legal expertise into scalable AI solutions. Working with lawyers, practice groups, and technology teams, you will redesign workflows for an AI-enabled environment and build prompts, schemas, and decision logic.

You will apply platforms like Harvey and Microsoft Copilot, curate reference sets, and develop evaluation frameworks to ensure accurate AI outputs while upholding client confidentiality and professional obligations.

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school; degree in CS/Data science/engineering or related field preferred.
• Minimum two years of substantive legal practice.
• Minimum two years in a legal engineering or AI-related role.
• Experience on a law firm innovation team or legal AI company preferred.
• Hands-on experience building/refining AI workflows, prompts or agents.
• Practical experience with Harvey and Copilot, including configuring workflows.
• Proficiency with JSON, JSON Schema, YAML and Markdown.
• Working understanding of LLMs, RAG, embeddings, tool use and model evaluation.
• Clear communication with lawyers and technologists; good judgment on AI usefulness vs. human review.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test and improve AI-enabled legal workflows and agents on Harvey, Copilot and other platforms.
• Re-engineer legal processes for AI-first execution and define human review requirements.
• Turn playbooks/drafting standards into prompts, schemas, decision logic and workflow rules.
• Curate precedents and model documents into retrieval sets for RAG and evaluation.
• Create evaluation frameworks, such as datasets and rubrics, to assess AI output accuracy.
• Identify failure modes and implement controls, gates and escalation steps.
• Collaborate with Information Security, Risk and Knowledge Management to meet Dentons policies and confidentiality obligations.
• Other duties as required to fully meet the position needs.

Skills

Prompt engineering

Workflow design

Legal tech know-how

Communication skills

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

J.D. from an accredited law school; degree in CS/Data science/engineering or related field

Tools

Harvey

Microsoft Copilot

JSON/JSON Schema

YAML

Markdown

Embeddings

LLMs

Agent workflows

Job description

Dentons US LLP seeks a Legal AI Engineer to translate legal expertise into scalable AI solutions. Working with lawyers, practice groups, and technology teams, you will redesign workflows for an AI-enabled environment and build prompts, schemas, and decision logic.

You will apply platforms like Harvey and Microsoft Copilot, curate reference sets, and develop evaluation frameworks to ensure accurate AI outputs while upholding client confidentiality and professional obligations.