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Job description
Role Overview
Shape the next frontier of AI-powered legal reasoning by designing rigorous ways to evaluate legal-focused language models and agentic systems. This remote, full-time role combines applied legal research, enterprise AI benchmarking, and agentic legal workflows to improve how AI performs on complex real-world legal work.
Key Responsibilities
Design, own, and refine evaluation frameworks for AI agents in legal domains, including benchmark suites, scoring methods, quality rubrics, and research-grade protocols.
Conduct original research on legal reasoning, statutory interpretation, legal analysis, and workflow automation.
Develop and curate datasets, case studies, and benchmark environments based on real-world legal challenges.
Partner with AI researchers and engineers to evaluate and improve legal models and agentic systems.
Analyze model performance, reasoning quality, and failure modes across legal use cases.
Document internal research findings, best practices, and evaluation methodologies.
Track developments in legal technology, jurisprudence, regulatory environments, and AI research.
Help establish high standards for legal AI evaluation and benchmarking.
Qualifications
Advanced law degree, such as a JD, LLM, SJD, PhD in Law, or equivalent.
Deep expertise in one or more areas including corporate law, contracts, litigation, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, employment law, or public policy.
Demonstrated legal research, analysis, or policy-work experience.
Experience creating structured methods to assess legal arguments, outcomes, or research quality.
Excellent analytical reasoning and written communication skills.
Experience collaborating on interdisciplinary teams involving research, technology, or legal operations.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with legal technology, legal operations, or AI-enabled legal workflows.
Background in legal benchmarking, legal research methodology, or legal knowledge management.
Published legal scholarship or policy research, or contributions to legal standards and frameworks.
Work Terms
Full-time, remote position.
Compensation
Stated annual compensation range: $400, 000 to $800, 000.
National base-salary range: $200, 000 to $250, 000 annually.
Eligible for equity compensation and, depending on role and company policies, performance-based bonuses.
Benefits include up to 100% reimbursement of health-insurance premiums, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with company match, and additional benefits for a remote-first workforce.
Eligibility
Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race.
Who can apply
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