Military Legal Advisor

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

micro1, a data lab focused on training models and agents, seeks a Military Legal Advisor (Contractor) to remote-work on evaluating lawful/unlawful boundary cases within defense and international law domains. You will apply LOAC knowledge to help train AI systems with high-quality real-world input, shaping how models reason about policy and legal questions.

The role emphasizes domain expertise over AI experience, and invites collaboration with other experts to ensure rigorous, defensible analyses

Qualifications

• Background as a Judge Advocate or substantial experience in international humanitarian law and the law of armed conflict (LOAC).
• Experience applying LOAC in real-world military or governmental contexts.
• Ability to communicate complex legal concepts clearly in writing and verbally.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed boundary scenarios regarding lawful policy review and the constraints of military support.
• Assess and validate the legal defensibility of taxonomy boundaries, ensuring accurate application of LOAC and international law.
• Analyze and grade model responses for soundness of legal reasoning, clarity of limitations, and capacity to address legal uncertainty.
• Identify and flag instances where the model unduly refuses to engage with legitimate policy or legal questions.
• Contribute written and verbal feedback reflecting authoritative analysis and clear communication.
• Collaborate with other subject-matter experts to ensure rigorous review and consensus on disputed cases.

Skills

LOAC

International-law application

Lawful-boundary discrimination

Legal-uncertainty reasoning

Job description

pay

Required Skills

• LOAC
• International-law application
• Lawful-boundary discrimination
• Legal-uncertainty reasoning

About micro1

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.

Role Title: Military Legal Advisor

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

micro1 is engaging Military Legal Advisors to contribute to a customer's project focused on evaluating and defining lawful/unlawful boundary cases within the defense and international law domains. In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters.

Scope of Work

• Develop detailed boundary scenarios regarding lawful policy review and the constraints of military support.
• Assess and validate the legal defensibility of taxonomy boundaries, ensuring accurate application of LOAC and international law.
• Analyze and grade model responses for soundness of legal reasoning, clarity of limitations, and capacity to address legal uncertainty.
• Identify and flag instances where the model unduly refuses to engage with legitimate policy or legal questions.
• Contribute written and verbal feedback reflecting authoritative analysis and clear communication.
• Collaborate with other subject-matter experts to ensure rigorous review and consensus on disputed cases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background as a Judge Advocate (JAG) or substantial experience in international humanitarian law and the law of armed conflict (LOAC).
• Fluency in rules of engagement (ROE) and understanding of lawful boundaries in military and surveillance operations.
• Experience advising on operational legal matters in real-world military or governmental contexts.
• Proven ability to communicate complex legal concepts in both written and verbal formats.
• Demonstrated skill in policy review, case differentiation, and legal uncertainty reasoning.
• Teaching, consulting, or advisory experience in military-legal or international-law contexts.
• Familiarity with AI governance, ethics, or prior work on AI-related legal frameworks (nice to have).