Legal AI Engineer
Cleary Gottlieb · New York, NY, US
About this role
## Overview Cleary Gottlieb is a pioneer in globalizing the legal profession, operating as a single integrated global partnership with ~1,100 lawyers across 50+ countries. The firm’s **AI Acceleration Team** combines frontier AI with elite legal expertise to redesign legal work from first principles. You’ll join a team of **AI engineers, data scientists, software engineers, and lawyers**. The group began as **Springbok AI** and continues to ship **bespoke AI workflows, copilots, and tools** that lawyers choose to use—supported by a world-class law firm. --- ## Responsibilities **The Role** - Analyze legal workflows with a partner in the morning. - Discuss **knowledge graphs** with data scientists and engineers in the afternoon. - Translate between legal and technical teams so the product improves as a result. **What You’ll Be Doing** - **Design legal workflows:** Convert legal processes into automations lawyers adopt; identify opportunities to save time and reduce errors. - **Engineer prompts:** Write, review, and refine prompts with NLP specialists until outputs meet lawyer standards. - **Bridge law and engineering:** Translate legal requirements into technical specifications—and technical constraints into terms lawyers trust. - **Configure and test:** Tailor AI tools to real legal use cases; test and iterate until they work in practice (not just demos). - **Champion users:** Provide first-line support to lawyers and turn feedback into prioritized engineering input. - **Get hands-on:** Work with engineers using AI coding assistants and the command line (edit templates/configuration, run scripts, inspect outputs). Tools will be taught. --- ## Qualifications **What You Bring** - **3+ years** experience in or alongside legal teams, including drafting, review, summarization, and data extraction. - **JD strongly preferred**, or alternative legal / legaltech background considered. - Command of legal work principles: **accuracy, explainability, confidentiality & privilege, rigor, risk-awareness, accountability**. - Working knowledge of AI concepts such as **agents, retrieval, chain-of-thought prompting, and few-shot learning**, and the ability to discuss them with data scientists and engineers. - Ability to become an expert within **90 days**. - Familiarity with the legal AI landscape (e.g., **Harvey, Legora, Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis**) and a view on where it’s heading. - Clear written and verbal communication (e.g., explain model limitations to partners; communicate risk concerns to engineers). - **Self-direction:** build processes where none exist and dig in when something isn’t working. - Willingness to learn basic **code editor** usage and **scripting** (no prior experience required). --- ## Bonus Points - Experience in practice development (and related areas).
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