Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Broadfield is a global law firm that operates in partnership with SHP Legal Services, specializing in transactions and litigation. They are seeking a Legal AI Engineer to build AI-powered workflows and enhance the firm's legal operating system, directly impacting how attorneys work and improving client experiences.
Responsibilities
- Map and structure the firm's playbooks, litigation frameworks, and due diligence processes into reusable knowledge assets
- Build custom workflows, in particular for document-intensive work across practices — from due diligence automation and playbook-based markup review on the transactional side, to discovery analysis, case chronologies, and brief research on the litigation side
- Design the RAG architecture that grounds AI outputs in the firm's proprietary precedents, deal data, and case materials
- Establish the prompt architecture library, guardrails, and quality standards that every subsequent build will draw from, and collaborate with attorneys to define what constitutes good output
Skills
- Hands-on experience building with legal AI tools (Harvey, Legora, or equivalent) or LLM APIs (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, or equivalent)
- Experience designing and implementing RAG pipelines — chunking strategies, embedding models, and retrieval optimization
- Familiarity with workflow automation frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent) for multi-step AI pipeline construction
- Ability to translate unstructured legal documents into structured, machine-readable knowledge assets
- Proficiency with prompt engineering at a production level — system prompt architecture, guardrails, output schema design, edge case handling
- Comfort working with APIs, JSON, Python, or equivalent scripting
- Builder instinct: you measure your tools' success by adoption, not by what you've shipped
- Speed and judgment: you know when to prototype fast and when to get it right
- Communication: you can explain what you built both to a partner and to a machine
- Ownership: you treat the legal operations system as yours
- Experience in a law firm, legal tech company, or professional services firm
- Built AI-powered workflows
- Exposure to transactional or litigation workflows and data privacy, privilege, and confidentiality considerations in AI deployment
- Exceptional recent graduates who demonstrate genuine technical depth and the drive to build from day one
Benefits
- Eligibility for a discretionary bonus
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