Manager of Legal Engineering

What You’ll Do

Legal work is becoming agentic, and the firms that win will be the ones whose AI actually understands the substance of their matters.

Net Documents sits on the context layer of the legal industry — the documents, matters, and relationships that constitute the working memory of a law firm.

Our products increasingly turn that position into structured, permission‑aware legal intelligence: maps of matters, semantic layers, and agentic capabilities that let AI start work already understanding what a matter is about, rather than re‑reading five thousand documents to figure it out.

Net Documents is seeking a Manager of Legal Engineering to own the substantive legal quality of that intelligence and to build the discipline of legal engineering inside our R&D organization.

• Own how Net Documents 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 work.

• Build the evaluation discipline for legal AI at Net Documents.

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 last.

• Develop 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 matter.

• Define 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 on.

• Hire and lead a small team of legal engineers while remaining deeply hands‑on yourself.
• Work 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 decisions.

• Anticipate the questions a legal professional would ask of a matter, a document set, or an agent’s output, and ensure our products can answer them.
• What You’ll Need to be Successful
• A 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 disciplines.
• Genuine fluency with modern AI development. You build with tools like Claude, Code, or Codex, are comfortable in a repository, and may be an active Git Hub contributor.
• A careful, methodical, rigorous mind. This role is about provability: structured thinking, careful taxonomy, and disciplined testing, not vibes.
• Deep 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 product.
• Comfort operating as a super‑IC leader in a high‑autonomy environment. You receive context and strategic direction, then determine the execution approach independently.
• Energy and conviction about where this is going. You see the agentic future of legal work clearly and want to build it, not study it.
• What Will Make You Stand Out
• Experience building or evaluating legal AI products at a legal technology company, law firm, or corporate legal department.
• Familiarity with legal taxonomies and standards such as FOLIO.
• Published work, open‑source contributions, or community involvement within the legal engineering, legal innovation, or legal AI ecosystem.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks, benchmark datasets, or quality measurement systems for domain‑specific AI applications.
• Experience hiring and leading small, high‑leverage technical, legal, or hybrid teams.
• What You’ll Love About Net Documents

• The People!

• 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 life activities & wellness
• Access to Linked In Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore

Compensation Transparency

The compensation range for this position is: $190,000 – $210,000.

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.

Equal Opportunity

Net Documents 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.

Net Documents 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.

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