Legal AI Engineer

axiomtalentplatform; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid holidays and time off

Flexible work arrangements

Professional development support

Job summary

axiomtalentplatform is seeking a role to design and implement AI-enabled workflows for contract lifecycle management and related legal tech platforms. You will bridge legal operations with data science and engineering to turn contract processes into structured requirements and measurable AI capabilities.

The role involves defining AI features for review and clause extraction, mapping workflows, and developing datasets with governance and QA practices for adoption across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in legal AI or knowledge engineering, contract lifecycle management, contract automation, legal technology, or AI-supported legal operations.
• Hands-on implementation of AI or generative AI capabilities in a contract management platform.
• Ability to translate legal concepts into structured data, workflows, and technical requirements.
• Strong understanding of commercial contracts, clause structures, negotiation playbooks, risk, and contract lifecycle processes.
• Experience preparing or evaluating legal datasets and testing model outputs against ground truth.
• Skills in workflow mapping, requirements gathering, process design, and stakeholder facilitation.
• Knowledge of responsible AI, human review, data quality, privacy, compliance, and model governance.
• Ability to collaborate across legal, procurement, product, data science, engineering, and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver AI features for contract review, clause extraction and comparison, risk scoring, and natural-language analysis.
• Facilitate requirements sessions to map contract workflows, identify automation opportunities, and translate legal and business needs into technical plans.
• Configure contract workflows and maintain supporting templates, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, and fallback positions.
• Develop and curate legal datasets and annotation standards for model development and evaluation.
• Work with data science and engineering teams to test and improve models, comparing outputs with ground-truth examples and documenting performance gaps.
• Set quality assurance, human review, validation, and governance practices; prepare guidance and training to support adoption.

Skills

Legal AI

Requirements gathering

Workflow mapping

Stakeholder facilitation

Data quality

Privacy & compliance

Model governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Contract management platforms

AI/ML tooling

Job description

Role overview

Design and implement AI-enabled workflows for contract lifecycle management and other legal technology platforms. The role connects legal operations with data science and engineering: turning contract processes and legal concepts into structured requirements, usable AI capabilities, and measurable quality controls.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver AI features for contract review, clause extraction and comparison, risk scoring, and natural-language analysis.
• Facilitate requirements sessions to map contract workflows, identify automation opportunities, and translate legal and business needs into technical plans.
• Configure contract workflows and maintain supporting templates, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, and fallback positions.
• Develop and curate legal datasets and annotation standards for model development and evaluation.
• Work with data science and engineering teams to test and improve models, comparing outputs with ground-truth examples and documenting performance gaps.
• Set quality assurance, human review, validation, and governance practices; prepare guidance and training to support adoption.

Requirements

• Experience in legal AI or knowledge engineering, contract lifecycle management, contract automation, legal technology, or AI-supported legal operations.
• Hands-on implementation of AI or generative AI capabilities in a contract management platform.
• Ability to translate legal concepts into structured data, workflows, and technical requirements.
• Strong understanding of commercial contracts, clause structures, negotiation playbooks, risk, and contract lifecycle processes.
• Experience preparing or evaluating legal datasets and testing model outputs against ground truth.
• Skills in workflow mapping, requirements gathering, process design, and stakeholder facilitation.
• Knowledge of responsible AI, human review, data quality, privacy, compliance, and model governance.
• Ability to collaborate across legal, procurement, product, data science, engineering, and business teams.

Benefits and work setup

The role is described as remote. The source gives broad compensation ranges for attorney and non-attorney positions, but does not specify which applies to this role. It also mentions possible health, dental, and vision coverage, paid holidays and time off, flexible work arrangements, and professional development support.