Legal Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Quick Facts

• Role: Subject Matter Expert, Law (Legal SME)

• Work mode: Hybrid (3 days in office per week); relocation assistance

• Location: San Francisco, CA

Description

You will help define what excellent legal work looks like and translate that standard into AI model evaluations and product experiences. In a hands-on individual contributor role, you will work with legal materials, model outputs, evaluation rubrics, and product prototypes to assess reasoning quality—even when there is no single correct answer.

Responsibilities

• Define quality bars for research, analysis, drafting, document review, and client advice

• Design realistic AI model evaluations using representative facts, sources, constraints, and deliverables

• Create and review reference work (research memoranda, contract analyses, redlines, diligence findings, and legal drafts)

• Develop rubrics to assess legal accuracy, issue spotting, factual grounding, citation validity, jurisdiction context, and uncertainty

• Evaluate model outputs across legal workflows; identify recurring failures and provide actionable feedback with examples

• Partner with Research on datasets, grading methods, and training tasks; verify fixes on new cases

• Work with Product and Engineering to identify use cases, prototype workflows, and translate evaluation findings into lawyer-centered experiences

• Collaborate with legal professionals to refine standards, and apply judgment around confidentiality, privilege, permissions, and professional responsibility

Requirements

• Substantial law-firm experience producing and reviewing work for real client matters

• Demonstrated judgment and quality of legal work

• Deep expertise in one or more practice areas (commercial transactions, corporate law, litigation, regulatory work)

• Strong legal research and writing ability, including assessment of authorities and explaining how facts affect conclusions

• Ability to make expert judgment explicit and explain why work is incomplete or risky and what better work would look like

• Hands-on comfort with AI tools and ability to collaborate and communicate clearly across disciplines

Benefits

• Hybrid work model (3 days in office per week) and relocation assistance