AI Legal Engineer

Holland & Knight; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with profit sharing

Paid holidays

Job summary

Holland & Knight seeks a results-driven professional to design and deploy AI-enabled legal workflows across firm-approved tools. You will partner with attorneys and knowledge-management teams to identify high-value use cases, map workflows, and translate practice needs into scalable solutions.

You will develop retrieval pipelines, templates, and reusable components, while building evaluation frameworks to measure quality, accuracy, and reliability.

Qualifications

• JD or equivalent legal background required.
• 3–6+ years of experience in legal, legal technology, knowledge management, or a comparable professional-services environment.
• Experience designing or implementing AI, automation, or workflow solutions in a legal or professional-services context.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy AI legal workflows and skills across firm-approved AI tools.
• Partner with attorneys and knowledge-management professionals to identify high-value use cases and map workflows.
• Develop and maintain retrieval pipelines, templates, and reusable workflow components with attorney-ready documentation.
• Build evaluation frameworks to measure workflow quality, accuracy, and reliability; monitor performance and iterate.

Skills

AI workflow design

Prompt engineering

RAG concepts

Evaluation of model outputs

Relationship building with attorneys

Clear communication to non-technical

Work in ambiguity

Quality and risk awareness

Vendor landscape knowledge

Microsoft Office 365

Education

Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office 365

Job description

Role Overview

This position can be based in our global operations center in Tampa, FL, or at one of the Firm's offices across the United States.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy AI legal workflows and skills across firm‑approved AI tools, supporting use cases such as contract review, due diligence, drafting, research, and summarization.
• Partner directly with attorneys and knowledge‑management professionals to identify high‑value use cases, map workflows, and translate practice needs into structured AI solutions.
• Develop and maintain retrieval pipelines, document templates, and reusable workflow components with clear, attorney‑ready documentation.
• Build and execute evaluation frameworks to measure workflow quality, accuracy, and reliability; monitor performance and iterate based on feedback and outcomes.
• Serve as a go‑to resource for enablement and change management for developed workflows, partnering with the AI Adoption team to drive usage, deliver training sessions and workshops, 1:1 coaching, and develop practical playbooks and materials that support sustained adoption.
• Develop and scale best‑practice standards, use‑case libraries, and playbooks that empower attorneys to responsibly and independently leverage AI tools while maintaining quality and risk controls.
• Embed human‑review checkpoints and audit mechanisms aligned with firm governance, confidentiality, and professional responsibility requirements.
• Collaborate closely with cross‑functional stakeholders including the AI Product team, AI Adoption team, Knowledge & Innovation team, IT, Innovation Practice Group, and Professional Development to ensure aligned delivery and support.
• Track adoption, usage, and impact metrics for deployed workflows and recommend refinements or expansion opportunities.
• Manage ongoing maintenance of production workflows, including updates to prompts, retrieval sources, and guardrails in response to model and platform changes, user feedback, or evolving practice needs.
• Represent the AI Products & Adoption team in internal meetings, committees, and practice group sessions.
• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule and full attention to and engagement in work activities on behalf of the firm during business hours unless otherwise approved or required by applicable law.
• Special projects and duties as assigned.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated ability to design and build AI‑enabled workflows in legal or professional‑services settings, including prompt engineering, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) concepts, and evaluation of model outputs.
• Working understanding of legal practice and attorney workflows, with the judgment to identify where AI is—and is not—appropriate.
• Strong interpersonal skills with experience building trusted relationships with attorneys, including partners and senior stakeholders.
• Clear, confident communicator able to teach AI concepts and workflow‑building skills to non‑technical legal audiences in practical terms.
• Comfort iterating in ambiguity: scoping a use case, building a prototype, gathering feedback, and refining toward a production‑ready workflow.
• Strong attention to quality, accuracy, and risk; instinct to build in human‑review and verification steps for legal output.
• Consistently reliable, responsive, and solutions oriented.
• Working knowledge of the legal AI vendor landscape (e.g., Harvey, Legora, Microsoft Copilot, and similar) and familiarity with the components of modern AI workflow builders.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, or Microsoft 365.

Required Qualifications & Education

• Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent legal background (e.g., practicing attorney, knowledge lawyer, paralegal with substantive practice experience); 3–6+ years of experience in legal, legal technology, knowledge management, practice innovation, or a comparable professional‑services environment.
• Demonstrated experience designing or implementing AI, automation, or workflow solutions in a legal or professional‑services context.
• Experience delivering training, enablement, or onboarding programs to attorney or client‑facing audiences.

Preferred Qualifications & Education

• Prior experience at an AmLaw firm, in‑house legal department, or legal technology company (e.g., Harvey, Legora, or similar).
• Hands‑on experience with workflow builders, prompt libraries, RAG pipelines, and AI evaluation methods.
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks and emerging AI regulation relevant to legal practice.
• Light coding fluency (e.g., Python, SQL, or scripting) a plus but not required.

Physical Requirements

Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time. Moderate or advanced keyboard usage.

Pay Range

California, Massachusetts, New York (City), District of Columbia: $163,000.00 – $245,000.00 per year
Illinois, Washington, Tysons: $150,000.00 – $224,000.00 per year
Colorado, Richmond: $136,000.00 – $204,000.00 per year

Benefits

Health and wellness benefits that include medical (PPO and HDHP), dental and vision plans (including coverage for domestic partners), life and AD&D insurance, short and long‑term disability insurance, tax‑advantaged health care accounts, dependent care and senior care resources, behavioral health and counseling resources, 401(k) with profit sharing, paid holidays, and family‑friendly leave, among others.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Holland & Knight is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related conditions, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status or any other factor prohibited by law.