Legal AI Engineer

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 71,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

Flexible work arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Axiom is hiring a Legal AI Engineer to drive AI capabilities in contract lifecycle management and legal platforms.

You will translate legal concepts into AI-ready workflows, curate datasets, and partner with Data Science to enhance model performance while ensuring governance and compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience in legal AI engineering, CLM, or AI-enabled Legal Operations.
• Hands-on experience implementing AI/GenAI in CLM or contract management.
• Translate legal concepts into structured data and AI workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement AI/GenAI capabilities within CLM platforms.
• Lead workshops to map contract workflows and automation opportunities.
• Configure AI-enabled CLM workflows and optimize templates and clause libraries.
• Develop and curate legal datasets for AI model development.
• Collaborate with Data Science to improve AI models for contract analysis.
• Evaluate model outputs against ground-truth data and propose improvements.
• Define AI use cases across contract review, drafting, and compliance.
• Develop QA protocols to validate AI functionality and governance.

Skills

GenAI in CLM

AI workflows

Contract analytics

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder facilitation

Responsible AI

Collaboration across teams

Tools

CLM platforms

Job description

Join Our Team as a Legal AI Engineer at Axiom

Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Define and implement AI/GenAI capabilities within CLM and legal technology platforms, including automated contract review, risk scoring, clause extraction, comparison, and natural language analysis.
• Lead requirements workshops to map contract workflows, identify automation opportunities, and translate Legal and business requirements into technical solutions.
• Configure AI-enabled CLM workflows and optimize contract templates, clause libraries, playbooks, and fallback positions.
• Develop and curate legal datasets and annotation standards supporting AI model development and performance improvement.
• Partner with Data Science and Engineering teams to develop, fine-tune, test, and improve AI models for contract analysis and legal workflows.
• Evaluate model outputs against ground-truth data, identify performance gaps, and provide structured recommendations for improvement.
• Define AI use cases across contract review, drafting, negotiation, compliance, risk assessment, and Legal Operations.
• Develop and execute testing and quality-assurance protocols to validate AI functionality, accuracy, and regulatory alignment.
• Establish appropriate human-review, validation, and governance controls for AI-assisted legal workflows.
• Develop documentation and training materials and support adoption of AI-enabled legal technology across Legal and business teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in legal AI engineering, legal knowledge engineering, CLM, contract automation, legal technology, or AI-enabled Legal Operations.
• Hands-on experience implementing AI/GenAI capabilities within CLM or contract management platforms.
• Ability to translate legal concepts into structured data, AI workflows, and technical requirements.
• Strong understanding of commercial contracts, clause structures, negotiation playbooks, contract risk, and lifecycle workflows.
• Experience developing, annotating, curating, or evaluating legal datasets for AI/ML models.
• Experience testing AI models against ground truth and partnering with Data Science and Engineering teams to improve performance.
• Strong workflow mapping, requirements gathering, process design, and stakeholder facilitation skills.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI, human review, data quality, privacy, compliance, and model governance.
• Proven ability to work across Legal, Procurement, Product, Data Science, Engineering, and business teams.

Compensation:

The estimated total compensation for full-time Axiom attorney roles is $104,500-325,000 per year and for non-attorney roles is $71,250-309,750 per year. Compensation decisions are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, certifications, location, and business needs. Employees may be eligible for additional benefits, including

• health, dental, and vision insurance
• paid holidays and PTO
• flexible work arrangements
• professional development opportunities and tools

About Axiom:

For over 25 years, Axiom has pioneered the alternative legal services industry, now serving more than 1,500 legal departments globally with our unique blend of world‑class legal talent and advanced AI tools, delivering innovative solutions ranging from that combine top‑tier talent with cutting‑edge technology. We tackle complex legal matters across 12 practice areas for clients ranging from Fortune 100 to SMBs, empowering our legal professionals to engage in meaningful work that advances their careers. Our Talent NPS score of +71% and our Client NPS score of +64% highlight our commitment to excellence (Reported scores were Axiom’s average for 2025 – the legal industry average NPS score is +35%). Join our forward‑thinking community where you’ll keep your career dynamic and multi‑faceted, be part of a company that values agility, collaboration, and excellence, and love both the law and your life.

Axiom is the global leader in high‑caliber, on‑demand legal talent. Covering North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC, we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of today’s business landscape with best in class alterative legal services.

Diversity is core to our values

Diversity is core to our values and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Axiom ensures equal employment opportunity in recruitment and employment, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religious creed or belief, political opinion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender identity status, pregnancy or maternity, age, disability, alienage or citizenship status, marital (or civil or other partnership recognized by law) status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation, military service, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Axiom prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.

Upon request and consistent with applicable laws, Axiom will provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities who require accommodations to participate in each stage of the recruitment process. To request an accommodation, please contact [e-mail].

Axiom respects your privacy. For an explanation of the kind of information we collect about you and how it is used, our full data privacy notice is available here.

Employment with Axiom may be contingent upon successful completion of a background check, providing proof of identity, and possessing the necessary legal authorization to work. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, NY Fair Chance Act, and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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