Junior Legal AI Engineer - Bridge Law & AI

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is seeking a Junior Legal AI Engineer to bridge legal expertise with engineering teams. You will analyze workflows with partners and collaborate with data scientists to translate requirements into automated solutions, learning as you go and contributing to real-world legal AI projects.

The role welcomes candidates with strong legal-adjacent experience, a willingness to learn code, and a passion for building reliable AI-enabled workflows in a prestigious

Formación

• 3+ years of experience in or alongside legal teams, including drafting, review, summarization and data extraction
• You meet the requirements but don’t have a JD or extensive legal experience beyond the minimum
• Command of the principles of legal work: accuracy, explainability, confidentiality and privilege, rigor, risk-awareness and accountability
• Working knowledge of AI concepts such as agents, retrieval, chain-of-thought prompting and few-shot learning, and the ability to discuss them with data scientists and engineers. We’ll make you an expert within 90 days.
• Familiarity with the legal AI landscape (Harvey, Legora, Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis) and a view on its direction
• Clear written and verbal communication: you can explain a model’s limitations to a partner and a lawyer’s risk concerns to an engineer
• Self-direction: you build processes where none exist and dig in when something isn’t working
• Willingness to learn how to use a code editor and basic scripting; no prior experience required

Responsabilidades

• Design legal workflows: Turn legal processes into automations lawyers adopt and find where automation can save time or reduce errors
• Engineer prompts: Write, review and refine prompts with our NLP specialists until outputs meet a lawyer’s standard
• Bridge law and engineering: Translate legal requirements into technical specifications, and technical constraints into terms lawyers trust
• Configure and test: Tailor our AI tools to real legal use cases; test and iterate until they work in practice, not just in a demo
• Champion our users: Provide first-line support to our lawyers and turn their feedback into prioritized input for engineers
• Get hands-on: Work alongside our engineers with AI coding assistants and at the command line: edit templates and configuration, run scripts and inspect outputs. We’ll teach you the tools

Conocimientos

Legal AI knowledge

Prompt engineering

Bridge law & tech

Explainability

Strong communication

Self-direction

Learn code editor

Herramientas

Code editors

Scripting basics

Descripción del empleo

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is seeking a Junior Legal AI Engineer to bridge legal expertise with engineering teams. You will analyze workflows with partners and collaborate with data scientists to translate requirements into automated solutions, learning as you go and contributing to real-world legal AI projects.

The role welcomes candidates with strong legal-adjacent experience, a willingness to learn code, and a passion for building reliable AI-enabled workflows in a prestigious