Legal Engineer
perkins coiePortland (ME)
About the role
Overview:
As a Legal Engineer, you design and optimize AI-enabled legal workflows to improve efficiency, quality, and client value. You work with attorneys, business professionals, and tech teams to translate needs into scalable tools while ensuring governance, privacy, and risk controls. You drive adoption of AI technologies and help advance firmwide innovation through responsible, practical solutions. This role blends legal expertise with AI fluency to impact everyday legal operations and client service. Compensation / Benefits annual discretionary bonus 401(k) plan medical insurance dental and vision insurance accrued paid time-off starting at 20 days parenteral leave
Responsibilities:
Design, develop and optimize AI-enabled legal workflows and agent solutions Translate business and legal requirements into scalable, user-focused tools Ensure governance, privacy, security, and risk controls in deployments Collaborate with attorneys, business professionals, and technical teams on high-impact use cases Lead user training, measure solution success, and drive adoption and innovation through AI technologies
Key requirements:
Five or more years in a law firm, corporate legal department, or related legal tech/innovation role Bachelor’s degree Proven experience designing and optimizing AI-enabled workflows and automation Strong knowledge of generative AI, LLMs, agents, APIs, and prompt engineering Ability to translate legal and business needs into structured processes with professional judgment excellent communication collaboration client service orientation generative AI platforms and tools LLMs and prompt engineering AI governance, privacy, risk management
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