Forward Deployed Legal Engineer

About the role

Epiq Advisory for Law Firms is seeking a Forward Deployed Legal Engineer to help law firm clients redesign legal work through practical process improvement and AI-enabled workflows. This is a hands-on, client-facing role for someone who understands how lawyers work, can diagnose inefficient processes, and can translate legal needs into usable AI agents, automations, and workflow solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with law firm clients and Epiq Advisory teams to understand legal workflows, pain points, handoffs, and goals, then translate them into practical process improvements and AI-enabled solutions.
• Identify, prioritize, and document legal AI use cases.
• Create, configure, and refine LLM-based workflows, AI agents, prompts, evaluation criteria, and human-in-the-loop review steps tailored to legal work.
• Partner with AI Enablement and technical resources to define requirements, data inputs, integrations, permissions, and workflow logic without needing to personally write production code.
• Prototype concepts using available AI, automation, and no-code or low-code tools, gather feedback from users, and help convert the strongest ideas into client-ready solutions.
• Map current-state and future-state workflows, identify bottlenecks, and recommend process changes that make AI adoption practical, defensible, and measurable.
• Capture repeatable patterns from client engagements into reusable workflow maps, agent designs, prompt libraries, playbooks, templates, and enablement materials.
• Contribute to business development by demonstrating how legal process improvement and AI agents can create measurable client value.

Requirements

• Law Degree strongly preferred, with meaningful experience in a law firm, corporate legal department, legal operations, knowledge management, innovation, or legal technology environment.
• Hands-on experience creating AI agents and working with modern large language models, including prompting, retrieval-augmented generation concepts, evaluation, workflow orchestration, and practical application to legal work.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with AI Enablement, Data Modernization, Document Management, Knowledge Advisory, and Change Enablement teams on integrated client solutions.
• Experience improving legal or professional services processes through workflow analysis, requirements gathering, process mapping, automation, knowledge management, or operational redesign.
• Ability to work directly with lawyers and other non-technical users to uncover needs, test concepts, translate feedback, and drive practical adoption.
• Understanding of law firm culture, legal workflows, and the operational and risk pressures that shape how legal professionals adopt technology (or a strong track record of rapidly building domain expertise in a specialized field).
• A strong grasp of data security, confidentiality, and privacy, and the judgment to apply it in high-stakes, sensitive environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and legal audiences.
• A practical improvement mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, biased toward action, and energized by helping clients turn new AI capabilities into usable legal workflows.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience creating AI agents and working with modern large language models, including prompting, retrieval-augmented generation concepts, evaluation, workflow orchestration, and practical application to legal work.
• Ability to work directly with lawyers and other non-technical users to uncover needs, test concepts, translate feedback, and drive practical adoption.
• Understanding of law firm culture, legal workflows, and the operational and risk pressures that shape how legal professionals adopt technology (or a strong track record of rapidly building domain expertise in a specialized field).
• A strong grasp of data security, confidentiality, and privacy, and the judgment to apply it in high-stakes, sensitive environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and legal audiences.
• A practical improvement mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, biased toward action, and energized by helping clients turn new AI capabilities into usable legal workflows.

Skills

• Strong legal-domain fluency.
• Hands-on experience creating AI agents and working with large language models in applied legal or professional services settings.
• Collaboration with AI Enablement, Data Modernization, Document Management, Knowledge Advisory, and Change Enablement teams on integrated client solutions.
• Workflow analysis, requirements gathering, process mapping, automation, knowledge management, or operational redesign.
• Directing the implementation of AI agents and workflows in legal or professional services settings.
• Designing and implementing AI-driven workflows and solutions for legal or professional services.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$140,000 USD up to $175,000 USD annually and may be eligible for an annual bonus.

Schedule

Not specified.