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Legal Researcher for AI Model Evaluation

$400,000–$800,000/yr

RemoteFull-timelegal
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About this role

Role Overview

Define the frontier of AI-powered legal reasoning by designing rigorous evaluation frameworks and benchmark suites that measure and advance AI performance on complex legal tasks. This remote, full-time role combines applied legal research, dataset curation, and collaboration with AI researchers and engineers to improve agentic legal workflows and enterprise AI systems.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, own, and iterate evaluation frameworks for AI agents in legal domains, including benchmark suites, scoring methodologies, quality rubrics, and research-grade evaluation protocols.
  • Conduct original research on legal reasoning, statutory interpretation, legal analysis, and workflow automation.
  • Develop and curate datasets, case studies, and benchmark environments that reflect real-world legal challenges.
  • Collaborate with AI researchers and engineers to evaluate and improve legal-focused models and agentic systems.
  • Analyze model performance, reasoning quality, and failure modes across legal use cases.
  • Publish internal research findings, best practices, and evaluation methodologies.
  • Monitor developments in legal technology, jurisprudence, regulatory environments, and AI research, and help establish industry-leading standards for legal AI evaluation and benchmarking.
Qualifications
  • Advanced degree in Law, for example JD, LLM, SJD, PhD in Law, or equivalent.
  • Deep subject-matter expertise in one or more legal domains, such as corporate law, contracts, litigation, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, employment law, or public policy.
  • Demonstrated experience conducting legal research, analysis, or policy work.
  • Experience developing structured methodologies for assessing legal arguments, legal outcomes, or research quality.
  • Exceptional analytical reasoning and written communication skills.
  • Experience working across interdisciplinary teams involving research, technology, or legal operations.
  • Required skills: Legal Research, Enterprise AI, Benchmarking, Agentic Legal Workflows.
  • 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.
Work Terms
  • Employment type: Full-time.
  • Location: Remote.
Compensation
  • Compensation range listed: $400, 000 - $800, 000 yearly.
  • Notice: the national pay range for this full-time position is base salary of $200, 000 - $250, 000.
  • All employees are eligible for equity compensation.
  • Employees may also receive performance-based bonuses, subject to role and company policies.
  • Benefits include up to 100% reimbursement for health insurance premiums, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with company match, and additional benefits designed to support a remote-first workforce.
Eligibility
  • All employees are eligible for equity compensation and may be eligible for performance-based bonuses, dependent on role and company policies.
  • The employer is an equal opportunity employer.

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