Legal AI Engineer

About the role

At Epiq, your work contributes to complex, global legal outcomes. You’ll join a values‑driven community where integrity guides decisions, relentless service sets the bar, and we thrive on big challenges together. We invest in your growth with enterprise‑wide learning and mobility. We celebrate who you are, and we respect life beyond work with flexibility that’s recognized externally. Enabled by modern platforms and AI, you’ll do the most meaningful work of your career and see your impact at scale.

We’re looking for a rare hybrid: an attorney with real experience in corporate legal work -- litigation, investigations, regulatory/compliance -- and who is equally energized by technology, AI, and building things. As a Legal Engineer, you will work side‑by‑side with scientists, engineers, and product leaders to build the next generation of AI systems for in‑house legal teams and law firms. You will use your legal expertise and your technical instincts to shape datasets, workflows, capabilities, and use‑cases that truly reflect how legal work is done in the real world. This is not a passive advisory role. It’s an applied, creative, and execution‑heavy position at the intersection of law, product, AI research, and user experience.

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