Forward-Deployed Legal Engineer

About Epiq AI Labs

About the Role

What You’ll Do

What You Bring

• A US JD, or a US LLM with a foreign law degree, and active or prior US bar membership.
• 2–8+ years of legal practice, ideally in litigation. Practice experience matters more than seniority.
• Hands-on experience with real legal workflows and direct client contact.
• Working knowledge of the tools of legal practice, such as Relativity, DISCO, iManage, Westlaw, and Lexis, and of technology-assisted review (TAR).
• Fluency with technology: you can write simple scripts, prompt LLMs effectively, and analyze outputs.
• Daily use of AI in your own work, with examples you can walk through in interviews.
• The ability to sit with a client’s lawyers and rebuild a workflow, not just demo one.
• Clear communication with both lawyers and engineers, including explaining complex legal concepts in plain terms.
• Independence as an individual contributor, and the organization to run several POCs at once.
• Willingness to spend meaningful time at client sites.

Nice to Have

• eDiscovery or legal-tech experience.
• Experience configuring software or building workflows.
• Consulting or advisory experience.
• Experience at an early-stage company.
• Exposure to ML/AI concepts, synthetic data generation, or structured knowledge representation.
• What Success Looks Like
• POCs you run meet their success criteria and convert to signed clients.
• Clients go live on schedule with workflows their lawyers use.
• Use cases and user stories you bring back shape the roadmap.
• The Compensation range for this role is $175,000 - $260,000 USD annually and may be eligible for an annual bonus.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer.
• Location-based market rate for the role
• Your abilities in relation to the job specification
• Performance during screening and interview
• Pay parity with the wider team in the considered location
• Further details about the package will be provided during the initial screening call with the Talent Acquisition Team.
• Click here to learn about Epiq's Benefits.
• Epiq Leadership Compass
• Builds Talented Teams
• Builds and develops inclusive, high-performing teams aligned to strategic goals for exceptional talent and business results.
• Focus on employee engagement
• Build a strong talent pipeline
• Fosters Relationships & Collaboration
• Builds trust and alignment through open communication, shared goals, and strong partnerships to drive collective success.
• Build trust-based partnerships
• Nurture long-term relationships
• Remove collaboration barriers
• Celebrate cross-team success
• Engages & Influences
• Inspires action and alignment through clear communication, purposeful influence, and a compelling vision.
• Use storytelling to build buy-in
• Align communication with organizational goals
• Guild alignment through strong engagement
• Maximizes Performance
• Sets and reinforces performance standards that drive results, ensure accountability, and align with Epiq’s goals.
• Use data to identify improvement opportunities
• Make informed decisions
• Align team goals with boarder strategy
• Empower teams to manage their own goals
• Translate vision into clear priorities
• Prepare for disruptions with strong change management
• Achieves Operational Success
• Drives continuous improvement and operational excellence through smart processes, data insights, and quality execution.
• Improve workflows for team efficiency
• Use clear documentation and expectations
• Resolve issues quickly using data and feedback
• It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. In addition Epiq will take affirmative action for minorities, women, covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

What Success Looks Like

Qualifications

• A US JD, or a US LLM with a foreign law degree, and active or prior US bar membership.
• 2–8+ years of legal practice, ideally in litigation. Practice experience matters more than seniority.
• Hands-on experience with real legal workflows and direct client contact.
• Working knowledge of the tools of legal practice, such as Relativity, DISCO, iManage, Westlaw, and Lexis, and of technology-assisted review (TAR).
• Fluency with technology: you can write simple scripts, prompt LLMs effectively, and analyze outputs.
• Daily use of AI in your own work, with examples you can walk through in interviews.
• The ability to sit with a client’s lawyers and rebuild a workflow, not just demo one.
• Clear communication with both lawyers and engineers, including explaining complex legal concepts in plain terms.
• Independence as an individual contributor, and the organization to run several POCs at once.
• Willingness to spend meaningful time at client sites.

Responsibilities

• POC Delivery: Run POCs against agreed success criteria and keep each one on scope and on schedule.
• Workflow Configuration: Build legal workflows and playbooks that reflect how each client’s lawyers actually work, ready before the client’s first matter.
• Legal Expertise: Serve as the legal expert in each engagement, applying the law and procedure that govern the client’s work, analyzing its documents, and advising on whether an output is defensible.
• Deployment: Take each client from POC to go-live, working with Engineering on integrations.
• User Training: Train associates, review teams, and other day-to-day users during each POC.
• Issue Resolution: Spot client issues early and resolve them with Engineering, Product, and Customer Success Managers.
• Clean Handoffs: Take over the use case, success criteria, stakeholders, data, and timeline at POC kickoff; hand each account to a Customer Success Manager at go-live and stay available for legal workflow questions.
• Voice of the Client: Gather and organize client feedback, and turn it into use cases and user stories that shape the product roadmap.