Strategic AI Legal Engineer - Transforming Law with Tech

Coda Search; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Coda Search represents a world-leading law firm seeking an AI Legal Engineer to drive firmwide AI transformation at the intersection of law and technology. The role translates how lawyers work into secure, accurate AI solutions adopted across the firm.

The position collaborates with partners, practice group leaders, knowledge management and IT to shape how the firm practices law over the next decade, covering strategy, deployment, governance and change management.

Qualifications

• JD from an accredited law school.
• 5–12 years of experience at a law firm or legal tech/AI company.
• Hands-on experience designing or scaling AI or legal technology solutions.
• Strong grasp of large-law-firm workflows, precedents and quality standards.
• Practical knowledge of large language models, prompt engineering and AI evaluation.
• Excellent communication with partners, leadership and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• AI strategy and use-case design with practice groups.
• Map legal workflows end to end and redesign around AI-enabled tools.
• Prioritize initiatives by client impact, risk, feasibility and ROI.
• Design, configure and deploy generative AI solutions and tools.
• Develop prompts, templates and agentic workflows for legal tasks.
• Build retrieval-augmented solutions on firm precedents and docs.
• Collaborate on integrations, data pipelines and automation.
• Define testing and evaluation frameworks for accuracy and risk.
• Ensure confidentiality, privilege, data security and ethics compliance.
• Train lawyers and staff; create guidance and playbooks.
• Track adoption and report results to firm leadership.
• Evaluate legal tech vendors, run pilots, advise on build-versus-buy.
• Stay current on AI developments and impact on legal practice.

Skills

Legal tech experience

AI governance

Prompt engineering

Stakeholder communication

Project management

Education

J.D. from an accredited law school

Tools

Generative AI tools

LLM platforms

Document management systems

Job description

Coda Search represents a world-leading law firm seeking an AI Legal Engineer to drive firmwide AI transformation at the intersection of law and technology. The role translates how lawyers work into secure, accurate AI solutions adopted across the firm.

The position collaborates with partners, practice group leaders, knowledge management and IT to shape how the firm practices law over the next decade, covering strategy, deployment, governance and change management.