Legal Engineer - QA

Summary

NetDocuments is a legal technology company building intelligent document management and legal context solutions for legal professionals. The Legal Engineer will evaluate and improve the legal quality of the company’s systems and products by designing quality assurance evaluations, advising product teams, and developing software tools and workflows for legal AI.

Responsibilities

• Legal Quality and Evaluation: Define what correct means for legal AI output and then design, build, and implement trustworthy, repeatable evaluations and software tools that allow our product teams to maximize legal quality
• Legal Domain Advice: Contribute your legal experience to the work of our product teams on an advisory basis. This might include reviewing specifications, prompts, taxonomies, and product copy for legal accuracy, or giving product teams a fast, credible answer to whether designs match how legal professionals think and work
• System Improvements: Find and prove out changes to existing systems that improve legal quality performance. This is a wide-ranging can be improving prompts, improving agentic workflows, or prototyping new features and new technologies

Skills

• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
• The ability to speak law to technologists, and to speak technology to lawyers
• Demonstrated ability to manage time and prioritize projects to meet deadlines
• Strong attention to detail
• JD, LLB, or equivalent legal qualification, or a Bachelor's Degree plus 3+ years working directly in legal practice, legal knowledge management, or legal operations
• Experience building executable software systems that work on legal data and improve legal workflows
• Experience working with structured data and formats such as JSON, XML, and Markdown
• Experience using agentic AI systems for legal and software development tasks
• Experience with the evaluation of non-deterministic systems, including data curation and generation, grading, evaluation metrics and techniques
• Experience building and improving agentic workflows for legal tasks
• Knowledge of Computational Law techniques outside of machine learning
• Familiarity with harness development and AI-assisted software development lifecycle practices
• Full-stack software development experience

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
• The ability to speak law to technologists, and to speak technology to lawyers
• Demonstrated ability to manage time and prioritize projects to meet deadlines
• Strong attention to detail
• JD, LLB, or equivalent legal qualification, or a Bachelor's Degree plus 3+ years working directly in legal practice, legal knowledge management, or legal operations
• Experience building executable software systems that work on legal data and improve legal workflows
• Experience working with structured data and formats such as JSON, XML, and Markdown
• Experience using agentic AI systems for legal and software development tasks

Nice to Haves

• Experience with the evaluation of non-deterministic systems, including data curation and generation, grading, evaluation metrics and techniques
• Experience building and improving agentic workflows for legal tasks
• Knowledge of Computational Law techniques outside of machine learning
• Familiarity with harness development and AI-assisted software development lifecycle practices
• Full-stack software development experience

Benefits

• 90% healthcare premiums company covered
• HSA company contribution
• 401K match at 4% with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year)
• 10 paid holidays
• Monthly contributions for wellness
• Access to LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore