Remote Legal AI Engineer — Contract & Risk AI Lead

Axiom; United States; Remote; USD 71,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

Flexible work arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Axiom seeks an experienced Legal AI Engineer to lead design and development of an enterprise risk taxonomy and operating model for large organizations. Remote, full-time role driving AI-enabled CLM workflows, contract analysis, and governance across Legal and business teams.

You will collaborate with Data Science and Engineering to build, test, and refine AI models, datasets, and annotations, while ensuring compliant, auditable processes and scalable deployment.

Qualifications

• Experience in legal AI engineering, legal knowledge engineering, CLM, contract automation, legal technology, or AI-enabled Legal Operations.
• Hands-on experience implementing AI/GenAI capabilities within CLM or contract management platforms.
• Ability to translate legal concepts into structured data, AI workflows, and technical requirements.
• Strong understanding of commercial contracts, clause structures, negotiation playbooks, contract risk, and lifecycle workflows.
• Experience developing, annotating, curating, or evaluating legal datasets for AI/ML models.
• Experience testing AI models against ground truth and partnering with Data Science and Engineering teams to improve performance.
• Strong workflow mapping, requirements gathering, process design, and stakeholder facilitation skills.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI, human review, data quality, privacy, compliance, and model governance.
• Proven ability to work across Legal, Procurement, Product, Data Science, Engineering, and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement AI/GenAI capabilities within CLM and legal technology platforms, including automated contract review, risk scoring, clause extraction, comparison, and natural language analysis.
• Lead requirements workshops to map contract workflows, identify automation opportunities, and translate Legal and business requirements into technical solutions.
• Configure AI-enabled CLM workflows and optimize contract templates, clause libraries, playbooks, and fallback positions.
• Develop and curate legal datasets and annotation standards supporting AI model development and performance improvement.
• Partner with Data Science and Engineering teams to develop, fine-tune, test, and improve AI models for contract analysis and legal workflows.
• Evaluate model outputs against ground-truth data, identify performance gaps, and provide structured recommendations for improvement.
• Define AI use cases across contract review, drafting, negotiation, compliance, risk assessment, and Legal Operations.
• Develop and execute testing and quality-assurance protocols to validate AI functionality, accuracy, and regulatory alignment.
• Establish appropriate human-review, validation, and governance controls for AI-assisted legal workflows.
• Develop documentation and training materials and support adoption of AI-enabled legal technology across Legal and business teams.

Skills

Legal AI engineering

CLM/contract automation

Requirements gathering

Responsible AI/governance

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

CLM platforms

AI model tooling

Job description

Axiom seeks an experienced Legal AI Engineer to lead design and development of an enterprise risk taxonomy and operating model for large organizations. Remote, full-time role driving AI-enabled CLM workflows, contract analysis, and governance across Legal and business teams.

You will collaborate with Data Science and Engineering to build, test, and refine AI models, datasets, and annotations, while ensuring compliant, auditable processes and scalable deployment.