Applied Legal Researcher

Harvey

$180K — $220K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • JD or equivalent post-graduate qualification
  • 3-7 years experience in a law firm, financial institution, or similar
  • Ability to meet demanding deadlines with high-quality work
  • Strong communication skills for diverse stakeholders
  • Experience translating complex requirements into technical solutions
  • Curiosity and a desire to learn across various domains
  • Willing to engage in hands-on work, including detailed document analysis

Responsibilities

  • Develop subject-matter expertise to enhance AI research
  • Collaborate with engineering and product teams on AI system development
  • Improve AI systems through prompt engineering and fine-tuning
  • Create proprietary benchmarks and datasets for model evaluation
  • Engage with clients to understand workflows and identify pain points
  • Translate business and legal needs into viable technical solutions

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on innovative AI projects
  • Dynamic environment with diverse customer engagement
  • Collaboration across multidisciplinary teams
  • Potential for professional development and skill enhancement
  • Engagement with cutting-edge technology in legal research
Full Job Description
Role Overview

We are looking for a legal researcher with a strong understanding of how law firms, financial institutions, large corporations, and other organizations deliver professional services and execute complex legal and knowledge work tasks. We have incredible product-market fit and demand across diverse customer profiles. Executing on this demand requires a strong understanding of our customers' workflows and how those workflows can be accelerated by AI systems.

What You'll Do

To facilitate the development of these systems, you will:
  • Develop and deliver subject-matter expertise to support AI research
  • Work closely with our engineering, product, and design teams to define and develop AI systems
  • Build and improve AI systems through prompt engineering, fine tuning, and other techniques
  • Build proprietary benchmarks and datasets to evaluate models and model systems
  • Partner directly with clients to understand their workflows, identify pain points, and translate complex business and legal requirements into technical solutions
What You Have
  • JD or equivalent post-graduate qualification
  • 3-7 years of experience at a law firm, financial institution, or equivalent professional service provider
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality work product on demanding deadlines
  • Ability to effectively communicate with a variety internal and external stakeholders and translate complex problems effectively between them
  • Ability to define positive outcomes in situations with underspecified success criteria
  • Deep intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn across domains
  • Willingness and desire to do work in the trenches - e.g., grading hundreds of answers, breaking down thousands of documents - getting the models to do junior associate work requires a lot of things that look like junior associate work


Compensation Range

$180,000 - $220,000 USD

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