[Remote] Manager of Legal Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NetDocuments is the world’s #1 trusted cloud-based content management and productivity platform that helps legal professionals do their best work. They are seeking a Manager of Legal Engineering to own the substantive legal quality of AI-driven products and to build the discipline of legal engineering within their R&D organization.ResponsibilitiesOwn how NetDocuments structures legal knowledge. Define what must be captured, structured, and surfaced for different matter types and practice areas across products like our Legal Context Graph, improving substantive outcomes for legal professionals, efficiency, and comprehensiveness across the full breadth of legal workBuild the evaluation discipline for legal AI at NetDocuments. Design and run evaluation harnesses that define what "good" looks like for legal work product, briefs, analyses, extractions, and agent outputs, and prove with rigor that each iteration of our products is better than the lastDevelop our legal skill strategy. Author, test, and validate the skills (structured, executable domain knowledge) that let agents perform substantive legal tasks correctly, and build the testing scaffolding that validates they actually matterDefine legal taxonomy and structure. Bring frameworks like practice-area ontologies, document typologies, and matter lifecycles into a coherent semantic layer that agents and products can rely onHire and lead a small team of legal engineers while remaining deeply hands-on yourselfWork across all of R&D. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Design teams across our AI, user experience, and platform groups, serving as the substantive legal authority for agentic product decisionsAnticipate the questions a legal professional would ask of a matter, a document set, or an agent's output, and ensure our products can answer themSkillsA law degree and real practice experience, including a minimum of 1–3 years as a practicing attorney (firm or corporate legal department), followed by a career that has stayed close to the legal industry through legal technology, knowledge management, innovation leadership, legal data, or similar disciplinesGenuine fluency with modern AI development. You build with tools like Claude Code or Codex, are comfortable in a repository, and may be an active GitHub contributor. You don't need to be a production engineer, but your team should ideally be fluent in building, starting with youA careful, methodical, rigorous mind. This role is about provability: structured thinking, careful taxonomy, and disciplined testing, not vibesDeep understanding of how legal work actually happens, what a litigation matter requires versus a transaction, how lawyers reason about documents, and what substantive quality means in legal work productComfort operating as a super-IC leader in a high-autonomy environment. You receive context and strategic direction, then determine the execution approach independentlyEnergy and conviction about where this is going. You see the agentic future of legal work clearly and want to build it, not study itExperience building or evaluating legal AI products at a legal technology company, law firm, or corporate legal departmentFamiliarity with legal taxonomies and standards such as FOLIOPublished work, open-source contributions, or community involvement within the legal engineering, legal innovation, or legal AI ecosystemExperience designing evaluation frameworks, benchmark datasets, or quality measurement systems for domain-specific AI applicationsExperience hiring and leading small, high-leverage technical, legal, or hybrid teamsBenefits90% healthcare premiums company coveredHSA company contribution401K match at 4% with immediate vestingFlexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year)10 paid holidaysMonthly contributions for life activities & wellnessAccess to LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to exploreCompany OverviewNetDocuments enables businesses of all sizes to create, secure, manage, access, and collaborate on documents and email anywhere, any time. It was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in Lehi, Utah, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://netdocuments.com.Company H1B SponsorshipNetDocuments has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 4 in 2025, 2 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 2 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.