Dataset Lead, Law & Regulation

Reinforced Learning; Town of Tonawanda (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Reinforced Learning seeks a legal data specialist to help build datasets that teach models to draft, research, and analyze under real-world rules. You’ll work with practising lawyers as contributors and ensure citation accuracy as a hard constraint.

You’ll help assemble reference collections of statutes, cases and documents that ground the tasks and oversee contributor work. The role emphasizes sound reasoning and robust quality control.

Qualifications

• Four+ years of substantive practice required.
• Ability to decompose a legal workflow into testable steps.
• Experience drafting, negotiating or litigating and forming views on rigorous analysis.

Responsibilities

• Draft contracts, conduct legal research, and provide analysis to support model training.
• Oversee contributor work and resolve reviewer disagreements.
• Curate reference collections of statutes, cases and documents used to ground tasks.
• Set grading standards that reward sound reasoning and penalize fabricated authority.

Skills

Editing

People management

Legal analysis

Drafting/Litigation

Education

JD or equivalent

Job description

The role

Legal work is drafting, research, analysis and judgement under a jurisdiction’s rules. You’ll build the datasets that teach models to do it carefully, with practising lawyers as contributors and citation accuracy as a hard constraint.

What you’ll own

• Task families across contract review, statutory interpretation, legal research and client advice.
• A contributor bench of attorneys across practice areas and jurisdictions.
• Grading standards that reward sound reasoning and penalise fabricated authority.
• Reference collections of statutes, cases and documents that tasks are grounded in.
• Review of contributor work and resolution of reviewer disagreements.

What you bring

• JD or equivalent and four or more years of substantive practice.
• You’ve drafted, negotiated or litigated, and have views on what rigorous analysis looks like.
• The ability to decompose a legal workflow into steps a task can test.
• Strong editing and people management.

Helpful, not required

• Experience in legal technology, e-discovery or knowledge management.
• Non-US or multi-jurisdictional experience.