Dentons US LLP is currently recruiting for a Legal AI Engineer to turn legal expertise into reliable, scalable AI solutions. Working closely with lawyers, practice groups and knowledge, innovation, and technology teams, the Legal AI Engineer will redesign legal workflows for an AI-enabled environment. This position will build them with prompts, schemas, playbooks, decision logic and evaluation frameworks, using platforms such as Harvey, Microsoft Copilot, and other enterprise AI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test and improve AI-enabled legal workflows, applications and agents, including solutions on Harvey, Microsoft Copilot and other enterprise AI platforms.
• Re-engineer legal processes for AI-first execution, deciding what AI, automation and lawyers should each do and where human review is required.
• Turn playbooks, checklists, negotiation positions and drafting standards into prompts, schemas, decision trees and workflow logic.
• Curate precedents and model documents into reference sets for retrieval-augmented generation and evaluation.
• Build evaluation frameworks, such as golden datasets, rubrics and regression tests, to measure the accuracy and reliability of AI output.
• Find failure modes and hallucinations, and put controls, review gates and escalation steps in place.
• Work with Information Security, Risk and Knowledge Management to make sure solutions meet Dentons policies and professional obligations, including protection of confidential and privileged client information.
• Other duties as required to fully meet the needs of the position.