Legal AI Research Contributor

Aptura; United States; Remote; USD 68,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

Aptura is seeking Subject Matter Experts from legal practice to design and validate realistic Excel tasks that test AI performance on legal work. Tasks draw from disputes, insolvency, corporate matters and include claims analyses, damages calculations and spend trackers.

This fully remote independent contractor role starts immediately and runs for approximately 4–6 weeks, with weekly task-based payments and potential extensions based on needs and performance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in legal practice, restructuring/insolvency, litigation support or legal operations, covering disputes, insolvency, commercial or corporate matters
• Deep hands-on Excel: claims registers, damages calculations, data cleaning, multi-criteria lookups and error tracing
• Strong written English communication skills
• Attention to detail, and willingness to learn concepts in AI and Evals

Responsibilities

• Writing realistic Excel tasks drawn from your own work: extending existing models, fixing broken ones and building from a brief
• Working through each task yourself so there is a clear, correct answer
• Writing yes-or-no criteria precise enough that a grader can mark any attempt against them

Skills

Strong written English communication

Attention to detail

Willingness to learn AI concepts

Tools

Excel

Job description

About the Role

Aptura is looking for Subject Matter Experts from legal practice, restructuring and insolvency, litigation support or legal operations, across disputes, insolvency, commercial or corporate matters, who build claims analyses, damages calculations and spend trackers in Excel. You have used AI tools on your own work and been frustrated by the mistakes they make. You will turn that experience into realistic Excel tasks that test how well AI does the work of a Legal Professional.

Responsibilities

• Writing realistic Excel tasks drawn from your own work: extending existing models, fixing broken ones and building from a brief
• Working through each task yourself so there is a clear, correct answer
• Writing yes-or-no criteria precise enough that a grader can mark any attempt against them

Necessary Qualifications

• 3+ years in legal practice, restructuring/insolvency, litigation support or legal operations, covering disputes, insolvency, commercial or corporate matters
• Deep hands-on Excel: claims registers, damages calculations, data cleaning, multi-criteria lookups and error tracing
• Strong written English communication skills.
• Attention to detail, and willingness to learn concepts in AI and Evals

Additional Information

• Start Date : Immediate
• Duration: Approximately 4–6 weeks
• Payment: task-based. Experts who complete their first task within the required timeline will then be qualified to do multiple tasks for the remainder of the project.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Aptura will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments will be weekly following task completion.

About Aptura

Aptura is an applied AI and data company working with frontier labs to train AI systems on real professional work. We do this by building high-quality evaluation and training environments that teach AI agents to produce work that can be used in daily workflows.