Legal Engineer

Job Overview

NetDocuments is committed to providing an excellent candidate experience and will never ask you to engage in recruitment activity without phone, video, and in person meetings and communications from emails using the @netdocuments. com domain.

If you have any concerns or questions about communications you have received, please send them to hrgroup@netdocuments. com so our team members can review. About NetDocuments At NetDocuments, we're shaping the future of legal work.

Job Description

That's why we're building technology that helps organizations work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and unlock the full value of their institutional knowledge. Our team is redefining what's possible for legal technology.

Innovation is only part of our story. We believe our greatest strength is our people.

We foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture where curiosity is encouraged, diverse perspectives are valued, and employees are empowered to make a meaningful impact.

That commitment to our employees and customers has earned us recognition as one of the nation's top workplaces, including: Four consecutive appearances on the Inc.

Key Responsibilities

• We believe legal professionals should spend less time searching for information and managing documents, and more time solving complex problems, serving clients, and delivering meaningful outcomes.
• That's why we're building technology that helps organizations work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and unlock the full value of their institutional knowledge.
• NetDocuments is the trusted intelligent document management platform for legal professionals and the company behind the industry's first and only legal context graph-a breakthrough that gives legal professionals and AI a richer understanding of how matters, documents, people, and knowledge connect across an organization while respecting enterprise-grade security, governance, permissions, and ethical walls.
• Whether you're building products, serving customers, or supporting the business, your work helps shape the future of one of the world's most trusted legal technology platforms.
• This exciting new role sits at the intersection of legal practice, software development and product management.
• The Legal Engineering team will have primary responsibility for evaluating and improving the performance of NetDocuments’ systems and products on tasks that require legal knowledge for quality assurance.
• Legal Engineers will not be “forward deployed.” Legal Engineers will partner with and advise product managers, engineering managers, and designers across the company.
• Legal Engineers will have responsibility for designing and implementing legal quality assurance evaluations and implementing platforms to support that work.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• NetDocuments is committed to providing an excellent candidate experience and will never ask you to engage in recruitment activity without phone, video, and in person meetings and communications from emails using the @netdocuments.com domain.
• That's why we're building technology that helps organizations work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and unlock the full value of their institutional knowledge.
• NetDocuments is the trusted intelligent document management platform for legal professionals and the company behind the industry's first and only legal context graph-a breakthrough that gives legal professionals and AI a richer understanding of how matters, documents, people, and knowledge connect across an organization while respecting enterprise-grade security, governance, permissions, and ethical walls.
• The Legal Engineering team will have primary responsibility for evaluating and improving the performance of NetDocuments’ systems and products on tasks that require legal knowledge for quality assurance.
• The ideal candidate is a person with experience in some combination of legal practice, software development including coding agents, non-deterministic system evaluation, data set generation and curation, and who is inspired by the opportunity to make agentic legal AI both more reliable and more trustworthy.
• Legal Domain Advice: Contribute your legal experience to the work of our product teams on an advisory basis.
• What you will bring to the team: Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills The ability to speak law to technologists, and to speak technology to lawyers Demonstrated ability to manage time and prioritize projects to meet deadlines Strong attention to detail Required Education and Experience JD, LLB, or equivalent legal qualification, or a Bachelor’s Degree plus 3+ years working directly in legal practice, legal knowledge management, or legal operations Experience building executable software systems that work on legal data and improve legal workflows Experience working with structured data and formats such as JSON, XML, and Markdown Experience using agentic AI systems for legal and software development tasks Nice-to-Have Knowledge and Experience Experience with the evaluation of non-deterministic systems, including data curation and generation, grading, evaluation metrics and techniques Experience building and improving agentic workflows for legal tasks Knowledge of Computational Law techniques outside of machine learning Familiarity with harness development and AI-assisted software development lifecycle practices Full-stack software development experience Benefits: 90% healthcare premiums company covered HSA company contribution 401K match at 4% with immediate vesting Flexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year) 10 paid holidays Monthly contributions for wellness Access to LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore Compensation Transparency The compensation range for this position is: $155,000 - $165,000 The posted cash compensation for this position includes on target earnings, base salary and variable if applicable.
• Individual compensation packages are determined based on various factors specific to each candidate, such as career level, skills, experience, geographic location, qualifications, and other job-related considerations #LI-HYBRID #LI-REMOTE Equal Opportunity NetDocuments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.

Benefits and Perks

• 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies Five-time Top Workplace USA winner Five-time Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplace Multiple Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards recognizing innovation, employee appreciation, work-life flexibility, and compensation & benefits If you're excited to solve meaningful challenges, work alongside talented colleagues, and help define the next generation of legal technology, we'd love to meet you.
• What you will bring to the team: Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills The ability to speak law to technologists, and to speak technology to lawyers Demonstrated ability to manage time and prioritize projects to meet deadlines Strong attention to detail Required Education and Experience JD, LLB, or equivalent legal qualification, or a Bachelor’s Degree plus 3+ years working directly in legal practice, legal knowledge management, or legal operations Experience building executable software systems that work on legal data and improve legal workflows Experience working with structured data and formats such as JSON, XML, and Markdown Experience using agentic AI systems for legal and software development tasks Nice-to-Have Knowledge and Experience Experience with the evaluation of non-deterministic systems, including data curation and generation, grading, evaluation metrics and techniques Experience building and improving agentic workflows for legal tasks Knowledge of Computational Law techniques outside of machine learning Familiarity with harness development and AI-assisted software development lifecycle practices Full-stack software development experience Benefits: 90% healthcare premiums company covered HSA company contribution 401K match at 4% with immediate vesting Flexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year) 10 paid holidays Monthly contributions for wellness Access to LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore Compensation Transparency The compensation range for this position is: $155,000 - $165,000 The posted cash compensation for this position includes on target earnings, base salary and variable if applicable.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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