Remote legal AI engineer

NetDocuments; Lehi (UT); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare premiums coverage (90%)

HSA contributions

401K with 4% match (immediate vesting)

Flexible PTO

10 paid holidays

Wellness stipend

LinkedIn Learning access

Job summary

NetDocuments is seeking a Legal Engineer to combine legal practice knowledge with software development and product management. You will design and implement evaluations to improve legal quality across our systems, and advise product teams on legal accuracy and workflows.

The role reports to the Manager of Legal Engineering and requires experience with legal data, JSON/XML/Markdown, and agentic AI systems. A strong emphasis on reliability and trustworthy AI is essential.

Qualifications

• JD, LLB, or equivalent legal qualification, or a Bachelor’s Degree plus 3+ years working directly in legal practice, legal knowledge management, or legal operations.
• Experience building executable software systems that work on legal data and improve legal workflows.
• Experience using agentic AI systems for legal and software development tasks.

Responsibilities

• Define what correct means for legal AI output and then design, build, and implement trustworthy, repeatable evaluations and software tools that allow our product teams to maximize legal quality.
• Contribute your legal experience to the work of our product teams on an advisory basis, reviewing specifications, prompts, taxonomies, and product copy for legal accuracy.
• Find and prove out changes to existing systems that improve legal quality performance, prototyping new features and technologies.

Skills

Legal knowledge

Software development

Agentic AI

Structured data formats

Time management

Education

JD or LLB or equivalent

Bachelor’s degree + 3+ years legal experience

Tools

JSON

XML

Markdown

Job description

NetDocuments is seeking a Legal Engineer to combine legal practice knowledge with software development and product management. You will design and implement evaluations to improve legal quality across our systems, and advise product teams on legal accuracy and workflows.

The role reports to the Manager of Legal Engineering and requires experience with legal data, JSON/XML/Markdown, and agentic AI systems. A strong emphasis on reliability and trustworthy AI is essential.