Legal AI Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Legal AI Engineer (AI): Building foundational legal team AI infrastructure and shared maintainable assets with an accent on LLM integration and workflow automation. Focus on designing secure, scalable AI workflows, implementing a queryable knowledge layer, and developing MCP integrations to turn experiments into robust systems.

Location: Must be based in the United States (Remote or Hybrid in San Francisco, Denver, or New York)

Salary: $150/hr (approx. 20 hours per week)

Company

Payroll, health insurance, and HR platform supporting over 500,000 small businesses.

What you will do

• Package individual Claude workflows and dashboards into shared, maintainable assets for the legal team.
• Develop MCP integrations to automate data flow and connect current AI tooling.
• Build a structured, queryable knowledge layer fed by research, positions, and precedents.
• Implement AI-assisted workflows for contract first-pass review, matter intake, and response drafting.
• Create comprehensive maintenance runbooks and train internal staff for a seamless hand-off.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience shipping AI-assisted workflows from prompt to production.
• Direct proficiency with Claude or comparable LLMs, including prompt engineering and agentic workflows.
• Experience integrating tools using APIs, MCPs, or similar patterns.
• Ability to translate business problems from non-technical stakeholders into functional systems.
• Experience operating within internal technology governance and security review processes.

Nice to have

• Experience working alongside attorneys and understanding legal contracting workflows and research cycles.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven environment focused on growing the small business economy.
• Flexible work arrangements including full remote (US) or hybrid office options.
• Culture of AI fluency and continuous technological growth.
• Focused, 3-month fixed engagement project.