About this role
Role Overview
Advance AI-powered legal reasoning by designing rigorous ways to measure how legal AI systems analyze, reason, and perform in complex enterprise workflows. This remote, full-time research role brings together large language models, agentic systems, and legal practice to help shape the next generation of enterprise AI.
Key Responsibilities- Design, own, and improve evaluation frameworks for legal-domain AI agents, including benchmark suites, scoring methods, quality rubrics, and research-grade protocols.
- Conduct applied research in 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 assess and improve legal-focused 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.
- Stay current on legal technology, jurisprudence, regulatory environments, and AI research.
- Help establish standards for legal AI evaluation and benchmarking.
- Advanced law degree, such as a JD, LLM, SJD, PhD in Law, or equivalent.
- Deep expertise in at least one legal area, 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, legal outcomes, or research quality.
- Exceptional analytical reasoning and written communication skills.
- Experience collaborating across research, technology, or legal operations teams.
- 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.
- Full-time, remote position.
- Advertised annual compensation range: $400, 000 to $800, 000.
- The stated national base-salary range is $200, 000 to $250, 000 annually.
- Employees are eligible for equity compensation and may receive performance-based bonuses, depending on role and company policies.
- 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.