Legal Expert, German (Germany)

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Zekai seeks experienced lawyers fluent in German to train and assess AI agents on realistic professional tasks. Work remotely from the United States about 21 hours per week, with an hourly pilot running Oct 23 to Nov 19.

Responsibilities include drafting realistic requests, defining grading criteria, and reviewing AI work for accuracy against German legal standards (BGB, HGB, GmbHG) in digital workspaces.

Qualifications

• Native or fluent German speaker with legal background.
• Experience in legal practice and German court procedures is required.
• Based in or eligible to work remotely from the United States.

Responsibilities

• Train and evaluate AI agents on realistic German legal tasks.
• Review agent outputs for correctness against German law (BGB, HGB, GmbHG).
• Create grading criteria and ensure tasks align with local practice and terminology.
• Collaborate in digital workspaces with documents, emails and industry tools.

Skills

German language proficiency

Legal practice

Education

Bachelor's degree from Germany

Fully qualified German lawyer (Volljurist)

Job description

We're looking for experienced lawyers who are native or fluent in German to help train and evaluate AI agents on realistic professional tasks.

What you'll do:

You’ll work in realistic digital workspaces, with documents, spreadsheets, email, chat and industry tools, to create and review the kinds of tasks you handle in your own job. Your work will include:

• Building workspaces: reviewing files, memos and records a real team would have for a project or case.
• Writing tasks: drafting realistic requests in your language that a colleague or client might send, grounded in local practice, regulations and terminology.
• Defining what good looks like: writing clear grading criteria and checking whether an AI agent's work would meet your professional standard.
• Reviewing AI work: going through an agent's step-by-step work, spotting mistakes such as wrong calculations, missed details or incorrect local rules, and correcting them.

Requirements:

• Experience in legal practice
• Native or fluent in German
• Bachelor's degree from a recognized institution in Germany
• Fully qualified German lawyer (Volljurist) with deep knowledge of BGB, HGB, GmbHG and German court procedure

Details: Remote, about 21 hours per week, hourly, pilot running Oct 23 to Nov 19.

This is a 100% remote contract role. Applicants must be located in: United States.