Remote legal AI engineer

NetDocuments

Lehi (UT)

Hybrid

USD 155,000 - 165,000

Full time

14 days+

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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.