Senior Legal AI Researcher

Embedded within the Models team, you will collaborate closely with AI scientists, engineers, and legal researchers to bridge legal expertise and model development.

• Translate legal domain knowledge into actionable model requirements

• Identify inefficiencies and pain points across legal processes, assessing opportunities for automation and AI-driven improvement

• Contribute to evaluation design, defining quality benchmarks for legal AI and building the frameworks to measure them

• Design and test internal tooling to accelerate model development workflows

• Mentor junior legal ai researchers on legal concepts and best practices

• 5+ years of legal practice with a focus on contract review and negotiation, including strong familiarity with the full contract lifecycle and its stakeholders

• Exceptional communication skills across diverse audiences, with the ability to distil complex legal concepts for non-legal stakeholders

• Demonstrated interest in and understanding of AI technologies

• Ability to thrive in ambiguity

• In-house experience at an enterprise organisation (preferred)

• Experience managing legal spend and billing (preferred)

• Experience collaborating with software engineers or technical teams (preferred)