Legal Engineering Attorney, Multiple US Locations · Vault Top 10 Firm

A top-tier global firm is building legal engineering capacity to design AI systems that operationalize legal expertise into machine-executable workflows. This role bridges law and technology, creating the structured data, prompts, and evaluation frameworks that allow AI to handle complex transactional and litigation work.

The work:

• Design and implement AI-native legal workflows and decision systems
• Re-engineer existing legal processes for AI execution, optimizing work allocation and review gates
• Translate practice playbooks and conventions into machine-readable schemas and prompts
• Author structured data specifications (JSON, YAML) for deal types, clauses, and work products
• Curate precedents and examples to train and evaluate AI systems
• Develop quality measurement frameworks for AI outputs

What they're looking for:

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• Minimum 3 years substantive legal practice at a law firm or in-house
• Minimum 2 years working as a legal engineer or equivalent specialized role
• Strong prompt engineering skills with large language models
• Working proficiency with JSON, JSON Schema, YAML, and structured data formats
• Experience designing evaluation rubrics and quality measurement systems
• Hands-on work with AI platforms on legal workflows

Compensation in the $220K-$250K range.