Legal Knowledge Engineer - Litigation

About the role

Latham & Watkins is one of the world’s leading global law firms, advising businesses and institutions that drive the global economy. This role is based in New York, Boston, or Silicon Valley.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement quality assurance protocols and evaluation frameworks for AI outputs
• Establish standards for accuracy, completeness, and alignment with attorney expectations
• Translate transactional practice requirements into structured knowledge repositories, prompt templates, and context specifications
• Analyze AI output quality across workflows by identifying patterns, gaps, and opportunities to improve context, inputs, and evaluation criteria
• Monitor and report on quality metrics, accuracy measures, and evaluation results for AI-powered workflows
• Conduct research to identify best practices for knowledge curation, context management, and AI evaluation methodologies

Qualifications

• Possess strong expertise in knowledge engineering and AI systems
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of transactional legal practice, including M&A, finance, and capital markets workflows
• Exhibit strong knowledge curation capabilities, including developing reference libraries, context repositories, evaluation datasets, and quality assurance frameworks