Legal Engineer
- Pay
- $155,000 – $165,000 per year
- Location
- Lehi, UT (Remote) · Hybrid
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid-level
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Listed
- 30 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- JD
- structured data (JSON, XML, Markdown)
- agentic AI systems
- legal workflow automation
Also useful
- non-deterministic system evaluation
- full-stack development
- computational law
Stated benefits & perks
- 401k match
- Flexible pto
- Wellness
Your opportunity for impact
NetDocuments is seeking a Legal Engineer. 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 Engineering is an enablement team serving our product teams, not external customers. 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.
Legal Engineers will also be tasked with discovering, proving, and recommending methods to improve legal quality in NetDocuments' systems and allow our customers to get more value from their data.
This role reports to the Manager of Legal Engineering. 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.
What your contributions will be
Legal Quality and Evaluation: Define what correct means for legal AI output and then design, build, and implement trustworthy, repeatable evaluations and software tools that allow our product teams to maximize legal quality.
Legal Domain Advice: Contribute your legal experience to the work of our product teams on an advisory basis. This might include reviewing specifications, prompts, taxonomies, and product copy for legal accuracy, or giving product teams a fast, credible answer to whether designs match how legal professionals think and work.
System Improvements: Find and prove out changes to existing systems that improve legal quality performance. This is a wide-ranging can be improving prompts, improving agentic workflows, or prototyping new features and new technologies.
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. Some roles may qualify for overtime pay. 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
About NetDocuments
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 so our team members can review.
About NetDocuments
At NetDocuments, we're shaping the future of legal work. 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.
Our team is redefining what's possible for legal technology. 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.
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. 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.
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. 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.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
NetDocuments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.
All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, (including pregnancy), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military and veteran status, or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
NetDocuments believes diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success, and we are committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
From NetDocuments's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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