Commercial Litigator & Appellate AI Specialist

Axiom; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid holidays

PTO

Flexible work arrangements

Professional development

Job summary

Axiom is seeking a Commercial Litigator & Appellate Specialist to support a leading tech client in California. Hybrid work in Mountain View or San Francisco with on-site requirement 3 days a week.

You will craft litigation scenarios, train data, and evaluation rubrics for cutting-edge legal AI models. The role emphasizes complex commercial litigation with strong appellate components, legal research, drafting, and strategic analysis.

Qualifications

• Active California Bar admission with 5+ years of active litigation experience.
• Strong complex commercial litigation background; appellate experience is a plus.
• Experience in legal research, drafting and strategy development.

Responsibilities

• Develop litigation scenarios, prompts, training data, and evaluation rubrics for AI models.
• Conduct iterative legal research, citation verification, discovery/deposition analysis, and opposing argument analysis.
• Own training and evaluation workflows from scenario development through quality checks, validation, and rating.
• Stress-test legal AI outputs and collaborate with researchers and vendors to improve model performance.
• Review model-generated legal analysis for accuracy, reasoning quality, and use of supporting authority.
• Identify challenging litigation issues and fact patterns to test and improve model capabilities.

Skills

California Bar

Litigation experience

BigLaw experience

Appellate experience

AI in legal tech

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Tools

Westlaw

LexisNexis

Caselaw Access Project

CourtListener

Job description

Axiom is seeking a Commercial Litigator & Appellate Specialist to support a leading tech client in California. Hybrid work in Mountain View or San Francisco with on-site requirement 3 days a week.

You will craft litigation scenarios, train data, and evaluation rubrics for cutting-edge legal AI models. The role emphasizes complex commercial litigation with strong appellate components, legal research, drafting, and strategic analysis.