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 of relevant experience in legal or financial services
  • Strong track record of delivering high-quality work under tight deadlines
  • Excellent communicator with ability to engage diverse stakeholders
  • Proven ability to navigate ambiguous success criteria
  • Intellectual curiosity and a passion for interdisciplinary learning
  • Hands-on willingness to handle detailed, tedious tasks for AI development

Responsibilities

  • Develop subject-matter expertise for AI research
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and design teams to create AI systems
  • Enhance AI systems through prompt engineering and fine-tuning
  • Create benchmarks and datasets for model evaluation
  • Partner with clients to analyze workflows and identify pain points
  • Translate complex legal and business requirements into technical specifications
  • Engage in detailed tasks to facilitate junior associate-level work functions

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the intersection of law and AI
  • Engagement with a diverse client base across multiple industries
  • Access to continuous learning and professional development
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment
  • Participation in shaping innovative AI solutions for the legal sector
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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