Principal – Legal AI Engineering

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. Identify high-leverage AI opportunities across Legal teams and assess product counseling, marketing reviews, contract review and negotiation, and regulatory compliance work .

Posted 10/6/2026full-timeWest Hollywood • California • United StatesLead💰 $150,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and deploying AI products within legal contexts, focusing on integration, compliance, and user feedback. Capable of designing AI-powered tools and systems that enhance legal workflows while ensuring regulatory adherence.

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AI Product DevelopmentLLM ExperienceAPI IntegrationLegal ComplianceTechnical Communication

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Hard Skills

AI Product DevelopmentLLM ExperiencePromptingAgentic WorkflowsRetrieval-Augmented GenerationFine-TuningModel SelectionSystem BuildingData ReasoningIterative Development

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication

Tools & Technologies

Claude CodeCodexCursor

Industry Keywords

Legal TechnologyRegulatory ComplianceLegal OperationsHigh-Stakes DomainsLegal Engineering

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identify high-leverage AI opportunities across Legal teams and assess product counseling, marketing reviews, contract review and negotiation, and regulatory compliance work
Develop a point of view on AI capabilities in legal contexts and where lawyers must remain involved
Build investment cases and prioritize opportunities across brands and teams based on impact, feasibility, and legal risk
Design and build AI-powered assistants, agents, retrieval systems, and evaluators for legal work
Connect tools to document repositories, knowledge bases, and internal sources within governed IT, Security, and Legal Ops infrastructure
Measure quality against human baselines, debug edge cases, tune prompts and pipelines, and iterate
Design tools for shared legal work across brands while accommodating brand-specific differences
Onboard attorneys and end users, gather feedback, and improve tool usefulness
Create documentation, examples, and attorney-facing training
Build evaluation harnesses and metrics covering accuracy, hallucination rates, coverage, and latency
Coordinate with Legal Operations, IT, Security, and Privacy on enterprise systems and governance
Partner with Legal leadership to define an AI-native legal function and build a roadmap for scaling capabilities across teams and brands

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years building, deploying, or applying AI products and tools at an AI-forward tech company, startup, law firm innovation team, or in-house
2+ years building hands-on with LLMs
Hands-on experience with prompting, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, and basics of fine-tuning or model selection
Strong technical fluency, including building working systems in code or with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor
Experience working with APIs and data, and reasoning about integrations, permissions, and guardrails
Track record of shipping to real users, learning from usage, and iterating
Excellent communication across legal, technical, and business audiences
No law degree required
Preferred: experience building AI products in regulated, compliance-sensitive, or high-stakes domains
Preferred: experience as a legal engineer, legal AI engineer, legal solutions architect, legal technologist, or applied AI engineer
Preferred: experience building new capabilities within a defined team, measuring rigorously, and supporting broader rollout
Preferred: experience supporting multiple business units or brands with shared tooling

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, mental health, and wellness benefits
100% employer match on 401(k) contributions up to 10%, capped at $10,000
Employee stock purchase program
Generous PTO
14 paid holidays
Annual training allowance for professional development
ERG membership opportunities and events
20 weeks of 100% paid parental leave
Fertility, adoption, and child care resources
Pet insurance and discounts
Company events and gatherings