AI Legal Engineer - Design AI-Driven Legal Workflows

Latham & Watkins; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401k plan

11 holidays per year and 23 days PTO

Well-being programs

Professional development

Employee discounts

Affinity groups

Job summary

Latham & Watkins is seeking a Legal Engineering Attorney to join the Technology & Information Services team. This role designs AI-native systems that translate elite legal expertise into reliable, repeatable, machine-executable outputs, including prompts, schemas, evaluation suites, playbooks, and end-to-end workflows.

The position involves decomposing complex transactional and litigation workflows into discrete, measurable tasks with defined inputs, outputs, and quality criteria, suitable for

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school.
• Bachelor’s degree, in law, computer science, information systems, or a related field, preferably.
• Minimum of three (3) years of substantive legal practice experience at a law firm or in-house legal department, with ownership of complex transactional or advisory matters.
• Minimum of two (2) years of full-time experience as a Legal Engineer, Legal Knowledge Engineer, Legal Workflow Engineer, Innovation Attorney, or comparable role focused on operationalizing legal expertise into AI-driven systems and workflows.
• Experience at a legal AI company, law firm innovation team, alternative legal services provider, or software company building tools for lawyers.
• Hands-on experience with AI platforms designing or evaluating law-related workflows or agents.

Responsibilities

• Re-engineer existing manual workflows for AI-first execution, determining work allocation, review gates, and handling of exceptions.
• Translate practice group playbooks, checklists, negotiation positions, and house style into structured artifacts for AI systems.
• Codify tacit knowledge of senior practitioners into machine-readable form.
• Author schema specifications and JSON Schemas for deal types, clause libraries, document attributes, and matter metadata.
• Curate exemplar matters and precedents for few-shot prompting and evaluation.
• Protect and maintain highly sensitive information within firm data.

Skills

Prompting for LLMs

Structured data formats

Evaluation rubrics

Quality measurement

Legal AI familiarity

Education

J.D. from an accredited law school

Bachelor’s degree in law, computer science, information systems, or related field

Tools

JSON

JSON Schema

YAML

Markdown

Job description

Latham & Watkins is seeking a Legal Engineering Attorney to join the Technology & Information Services team. This role designs AI-native systems that translate elite legal expertise into reliable, repeatable, machine-executable outputs, including prompts, schemas, evaluation suites, playbooks, and end-to-end workflows.

The position involves decomposing complex transactional and litigation workflows into discrete, measurable tasks with defined inputs, outputs, and quality criteria, suitable for