Legal AI Engineer

Epiq Company; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 215,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Epiq AI Labs, the advanced R&D group behind a next‑generation corporate legal AI platform, is seeking a Legal Engineer. You will work with scientists, engineers, and product leaders to shape datasets, workflows, and use‑cases that reflect real-world legal work.

You will bridge law and technology, prototype AI-enabled legal tools, and contribute to documentation and internal tooling, while engaging with clients to articulate value and defensibility of the platform.

Qualifications

• JD required with active bar membership or eligibility.
• 2–8+ years practicing law, in litigation, investigations, or compliance.
• Technical curiosity: scripting, prompts, and AI tools.
• Strong understanding of legal workflows and data-driven reasoning.

Responsibilities

• Build and shape legal datasets for AI models and benchmarks.
• Define product capabilities from authentic attorney workflows.
• Engage clients and translate tech concepts for legal audiences.
• Prototype workflows and contribute to internal tooling and docs.
• Deliver high-quality work under deadlines in a fast, ambitious environment.

Skills

Litigation

Government investigations

E-discovery knowledge

Compliance & regulatory

AI tooling familiarity

Scripting / prompt engineering

Data-to-workflow mapping

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Bar admission or active membership

Tools

E-discovery platforms

Doc review platforms

Knowledge representation

Job description

At **Epiq**, your work contributes to complex, global legal outcomes. You’ll join a values‐driven community where integrity guides decisions, **relentless service** sets the bar, and we **thrive on big challenges** together. We invest in your growth with enterprise‐wide learning and mobility. We celebrate who you are, and we respect life beyond work with flexibility that’s recognized externally. Enabled by modern platforms and AI, **you’ll do the most meaningful work of your career** and see your impact at scale.**Job Description:**We’re looking for a *rare hybrid*: an attorney with real experience in corporate legal work -- litigation, investigations, regulatory/compliance -- and who is **equally energized by technology, AI, and building things**.As a Legal Engineer, you will work side-by-side with scientists, engineers, and product leaders to build the next generation of AI systems for in-house legal teams and law firms. You will use your legal expertise *and* your technical instincts to shape datasets, workflows, capabilities, and use-cases that truly reflect how legal work is done in the real world.This is **not** a passive advisory role. It’s an applied, creative, and execution-heavy position at the intersection of law, product, AI research, and user experience.**What You’ll Do****1. Build and Shape Legal Datasets*** Design and synthesize realistic corpora representing litigation, investigations, compliance, ECA, privilege review, and corporate workflows.* Generate and annotate training and benchmarking datasets for AI models.* Partner with ML teams to define task specifications, evaluation metrics, and model requirements grounded in real legal use-cases.**2. Drive Product and Use-Case Definition*** Ideate, refine, and validate new product capabilities based on authentic attorney workflows and pain points.* Translate legal processes into structured workflows, runbooks, and agentic patterns for the AI platform.* Critically evaluate proposed features for real-world feasibility, risk, defensibility, and legal accuracy.**3. Engage Directly With Clients*** Join client conversations, demos, and sales meetings to translate technical concepts into language that resonates with attorneys.* Help articulate the value, differentiation, and defensibility of the platform to in-house counsel and law firm partners.* Collaborate with marketing to craft content, examples, demos, and narratives that speak to legal audiences.**4. Prototype, Hack, and Build*** Use AI tools, scripting, and light coding to prototype workflows, simulate datasets, or mock up product ideas.* Move quickly from **concept → prototype → feedback → refinement.*** Contribute to documentation, testing scenarios, and internal tools that accelerate the pace of innovation.**5. Execute Reliably in a Fast, Ambitious Environment*** Deliver high-quality work under deadlines.* Go deep, learn quickly, and iterate with the engineering team.* Contribute to a culture of creativity + hard execution -- big ideas paired with disciplined follow-through.**Who You Are****Required Background*** **JD + active or prior bar membership.*** **2–8+ years practicing law**, ideally in one or more of: + Litigation + Government or internal investigations + E-discovery / document review oversight + Compliance, regulatory, white-collar, ECA* Deep familiarity with real workflows: privilege review, deposition prep, investigations, custodian interviews, factual development, matter management, etc.**Technical / Product Orientation*** Fluent in technology; comfortable working with engineers and product teams.* Ability to write simple scripts, prompt LLMs effectively, analyze outputs, or use AI tools creatively.* Strong instinct for how legal reasoning maps to data, rules, workflows, and model behavior.* Curiosity about how AI models work and desire to build systems that outperform today’s legal tech.**Mindset*** **Hacker mentality:** scrappy, curious, willing to experiment and build.* **High execution:** able to go heads-down and deliver.* **Creative + rigorous:** big ideas combined with legal defensibility and precision.* Motivated by building something new—not just using tools, but helping invent the next generation of them.* Comfortable in ambiguity, fast iteration, and rapid feedback cycles.**Bonus Skills*** Experience in e-discovery platforms, investigative workflows, or doc review management.* Exposure to ML/AI concepts, synthetic data generation, or structured knowledge representation.* Prior experience in legal tech, product design, research, or innovation-focused roles.**Why Join Us*** Work directly with world-class AI researchers and engineers building a first-of-its-kind corporate legal AI platform.* Influence the roadmap, design, and capabilities of flagship systems used by major corporations and global law firms.* Play a foundational role in shaping the future of legal practice and the next generation of intelligent legal infrastructure.* Move fast, collaborate deeply, and build something that truly matters.#LI-KS1**About Us****Epiq AI Labs** is the advanced R&D group driving the development of Epiq’s next-generation AI platform for corporate legal departments and law firms. Born from the acquisition of **Laer AI**, we operate like a fast, product-obsessed startup inside a well-resourced global ALSP.We’re a **small, highly collaborative, deeply technical team** of engineers, scientists, and legal experts building AI systems that push the boundaries of what’s possible in litigation, investigations, compliance, and knowledge-intensive corporate workflows.Our culture is **100% startup**: rapid iteration, low bureaucracy, real ownership, constant innovation—and a team that genuinely enjoys working together. We’re scaling quickly and looking for people who want to help invent the future of legal AI.The Compensation range for this role is $215,000 -$245,000 USD annually and may be eligible for an annual bonus.