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Epiq · 1 day ago

Legal AI Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$175K/yr - $260K/yr

2+ years exp

Epiq is a company focused on developing next-generation AI systems for corporate legal departments and law firms. The Legal AI Engineer will leverage their legal and technical expertise to build and shape legal datasets, define product capabilities, and engage with clients to translate complex technical concepts into practical legal applications.

Document ManagementEdiscoveryInformation TechnologyLegalLegal Tech

No H1B

Responsibilities

Build and Shape Legal Datasets

Design and synthesize realistic corpora representing litigation, investigations, compliance, ECA, privilege review, and corporate workflows

Generate and annotate training and benchmarking datasets for AI models

Partner with ML teams to define task specifications, evaluation metrics, and model requirements grounded in real legal use-cases

Drive Product and Use-Case Definition

Ideate, refine, and validate new product capabilities based on authentic attorney workflows and pain points

Translate legal processes into structured workflows, runbooks, and agentic patterns for the AI platform

Critically evaluate proposed features for real-world feasibility, risk, defensibility, and legal accuracy

Engage Directly With Clients

Join client conversations, demos, and sales meetings to translate technical concepts into language that resonates with attorneys

Help articulate the value, differentiation, and defensibility of the platform to in-house counsel and law firm partners

Collaborate with marketing to craft content, examples, demos, and narratives that speak to legal audiences

Prototype, Hack, and Build

Use AI tools, scripting, and light coding to prototype workflows, simulate datasets, or mock up product ideas

Move quickly from concept → prototype → feedback → refinement

Contribute to documentation, testing scenarios, and internal tools that accelerate the pace of innovation

Execute Reliably in a Fast, Ambitious Environment

Deliver high-quality work under deadlines

Go deep, learn quickly, and iterate with the engineering team

Contribute to a culture of creativity + hard execution -- big ideas paired with disciplined follow-through

Qualification

JD + bar membershipCorporate legal experienceAI tools proficiencyE-discovery experienceLitigation experienceRegulatory complianceCuriosity about AICommunication skillsCreative problem-solvingTeam collaboration

Required

JD + active or prior bar membership

2–8+ years practicing law, ideally in one or more of: Litigation, Government or internal investigations, E-discovery / document review oversight, Compliance, regulatory, white-collar, ECA

Deep familiarity with real workflows: privilege review, deposition prep, investigations, custodian interviews, factual development, matter management, etc

Fluent in technology; comfortable working with engineers and product teams

Ability to write simple scripts, prompt LLMs effectively, analyze outputs, or use AI tools creatively

Strong instinct for how legal reasoning maps to data, rules, workflows, and model behavior

Curiosity about how AI models work and desire to build systems that outperform today's legal tech

Hacker mentality: scrappy, curious, willing to experiment and build

High execution: able to go heads-down and deliver

Creative + rigorous: big ideas combined with legal defensibility and precision

Motivated by building something new—not just using tools, but helping invent the next generation of them

Comfortable in ambiguity, fast iteration, and rapid feedback cycles