Legal AI Engineer: Build AI-Powered Legal Workflows

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 185,000 - 250,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is seeking a Legal AI Engineer who can bridge the gap between lawyers and technical teams. You’ll analyze workflows with partners, discuss knowledge graphs with data scientists, and translate legal requirements into technical specifications.

Training as a lawyer is ideal, but diverse legaltech backgrounds are welcome, with a readiness to learn coding basics. You’ll design automations, engineer prompts, and test AI tools in real-world cases, while supporting

Qualifications

3+ years’ experience with or alongside legal teams (drafting, review, summarization, data extraction)
JD strongly preferred, or extensive experience with legal teams
Clear written and verbal communication: explain model limits to partners and risk concerns to engineers
Willingness to learn basic scripting and use of a code editor

Responsibilities

Design legal workflows: turn legal processes into automations adopted by lawyers
Engineer prompts: write, review and refine prompts with NLP specialists
Bridge law and engineering: translate legal requirements into technical specs and vice versa
Configure and test AI tools to real use cases and iterate until work is practical
Provide first-line support to lawyers and turn feedback into engineered inputs
Collaborate with engineers at the command line and run scripts to fine-tune templates