Legal AI Automation Engineer: Build Secure AI Workflows

Dentons Canada

Chicago, Northern (IL, KY)

Hybrid

USD 100,000 - 125,000

Full time

31 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k

Profit sharing

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Discretionary bonuses

Job summary

Dentons US LLP is seeking an AI Automation Engineer to design and deliver secure AI-powered solutions for legal and business operations. You’ll work with Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Azure AI services and Microsoft 365, translating legal and administrative needs into scalable tools.

Responsibilities include building AI workflows, integrating with SharePoint, and ensuring compliance with data privacy and governance. DOE salary ranges apply and a strong software foundation is essential.

Qualifications

3–5 years of professional software development experience, beyond low-code/no-code platforms.
Experience with Git, CI/CD practices, APIs, data structures, integration patterns, and SDLC practices.
Experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse), SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Graph API integrations.
Familiarity with Azure AI services (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure AI Foundry) and prompt engineering for retrieval-augmented generation.
Understanding of AI governance, data privacy, security requirements in regulated environments.
Demonstrated curiosity and builder’s mindset for evaluating multiple LLM ecosystems.
Hands-on experience with AI development tools (e.g., Claude, Codex) for code assistance and AI workflows.
Experience with legal tech platforms or professional services environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

Design, build, deploy, and maintain AI-augmented workflows, agents, Copilot extensions, plugins, and integrations.
Evaluate, prototype, and implement secure generative AI solutions for legal and administrative use cases.
Modernize Power Apps and SharePoint solutions with AI-native automation.
Collaborate with legal teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Develop production-ready code, APIs, integrations, tests, and deployment processes.
Ensure compliance with confidentiality, privacy, security, and governance policies.
Create documentation and train staff on new AI tools and workflows.
Monitor AI developments and measure business impact of implementations.
Fulfill other duties to meet role needs.