[Hiring] Member of Technical Staff, Legal Research @24-MAG

Role Description

We are sharing a full-time opportunity for experienced legal researchers and legal professionals with deep expertise in legal analysis, research methodology, benchmarking, and complex legal workflows to contribute to advanced AI research and evaluation initiatives.

Selected professionals will:

• Design rigorous evaluation frameworks for legal AI systems.
• Conduct applied research on legal reasoning and interpretation.
• Develop realistic benchmark environments.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to assess and improve AI performance across sophisticated legal tasks.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Law, such as JD, LLM, SJD, PhD in Law, or equivalent.
• Deep expertise in one or more substantive legal domains.
• Demonstrated experience conducting legal research, legal analysis, or policy work.
• Strong understanding of legal reasoning and research methodology.
• Experience developing structured approaches for assessing legal arguments or outcomes.
• Strong analytical reasoning and written communication skills.
• Ability to translate legal expertise into rigorous evaluation criteria.
• Experience working with interdisciplinary research, technology, or legal-operations teams.
• Familiarity with legal technology or AI-enabled legal workflows is advantageous.
• Background in legal benchmarking or legal knowledge management is beneficial.
• Published legal scholarship or policy research is valuable.
• Contributions to legal standards, frameworks, or research methodologies are advantageous.

Requirements

• Full-time engagement.
• Fully remote.
• Compensation: $400,000–$800,000/year.
• Work will involve legal research, AI evaluation, benchmark development, methodology design, and failure analysis.
• Assignments may span corporate law, contracts, litigation, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, employment law, and public policy.
• Strong legal-research methodology and structured analytical judgement are central to this role.
• Collaboration will involve researchers, engineers, legal professionals, and other multidisciplinary contributors.
• Equity compensation and performance-based incentives may be available depending on applicable employment terms and policies.
• Work must be completed without using confidential, privileged, proprietary, or otherwise restricted information belonging to any employer, client, law firm, institution, or other third party.

Benefits

• Health-insurance support.
• Paid time off.
• Retirement-plan contributions.
• Other employment benefits.