Legal Engineer – QA

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Legal Engineer improving legal AI quality for NetDocuments’ intelligent document management platform. Building evaluations, software tools, and agentic workflows for legal product teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Evaluate and improve the performance of NetDocuments’ systems and products on tasks requiring legal knowledge for quality assurance
  • Design and implement legal quality assurance evaluations and supporting software platforms
  • Discover, prove, and recommend methods to improve legal quality in NetDocuments’ systems and help customers get more value from their data
  • Partner with and advise product managers, engineering managers, and designers across the company
  • Define correct legal AI output and build trustworthy, repeatable evaluations and software tools
  • Review specifications, prompts, taxonomies, and product copy for legal accuracy
  • Advise product teams on whether designs match how legal professionals think and work
  • Identify and validate system improvements, including prompts, agentic workflows, new features, and technologies
  • Serve as an enablement team member for product teams rather than external customers; the role is not forward deployed
  • Report to the Manager of Legal Engineering

Requirements:

  • Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to speak law to technologists, and technology to lawyers
  • Demonstrated ability to manage time and prioritize projects to meet deadlines
  • Strong attention to detail
  • 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 working with structured data and formats such as JSON, XML, and Markdown
  • Experience using agentic AI systems for legal and software development tasks
  • Experience with evaluation of non-deterministic systems, including data curation and generation, grading, evaluation metrics and techniques
  • Experience building and improving agentic workflows for legal tasks
  • Knowledge of Computational Law techniques outside of machine learning
  • Familiarity with harness development and AI-assisted software development lifecycle practices
  • Full-stack software development experience

Benefits:

  • 90% healthcare premiums company covered
  • HSA company contribution
  • 401K match at 4% with immediate vesting
  • Flexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year)
  • 10 paid holidays
  • Monthly contributions for wellness
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore
  • Compensation range includes on-target earnings, base salary and variable if applicable
  • Some roles may qualify for overtime pay