Legal Engineer
$175k - $225k USD
About Norm Ai
Norm Ai, the leading Legal & Compliance AI company, has a client base with a combined $30 trillion in assets under management. By turning legal code into AI code, Norm enables enterprises to move faster and more comprehensively in their legal and compliance processes with reliability and trust.
Norm’s platform combines frontier AI, proprietary legal reasoning systems, and embedded legal and regulatory expertise.
We have recently raised more than $140 million, backed by Blackstone, Bain Capital, Vanguard, Citi, New York Life, TIAA, Coatue, Craft Ventures, Henry R. Kravis (KKR co-founder), and Marc Benioff (Salesforce CEO).
Norm Ai pioneered Legal Engineering, the process that empowers lawyers to build and supervise domain-specific AI agents with Norm’s proprietary suite of no-code software tools. We hired dozens of lawyers from premier U.S. law firms and trained them as Legal Engineers, who specialize in Large Language Model powered legal workflows.
Norm Ai technology is deployed inside many of the largest and most consequential institutions in the world. The company is growing quickly and hiring across all teams.
AI Fluency:
Norm Ai expects all team members to be fluent in AI. Successful candidates actively use AI in their day-to-day work to support thinking, creation, and problem-solving. They use it to improve the quality and speed of their work and to continuously refine how work gets done end-to-end.
Candidates should be prepared to demonstrate and discuss their AI usage throughout the interview process, including concrete examples of tools, workflows, and outcomes. We look for practical, hands-on experience, not theoretical familiarity.
This Role
Legal Engineers at Norm Ai build the foundation of our legal and regulatory AI platform. You will design, prototype, and deploy AI agents that perform substantive legal analysis across complex regulatory domains and power high-impact client workflows.
Norm Ai operates on the belief that AI fundamentally changes how legal expertise is acquired, scaled, and delivered. Legal Engineers are legal generalists who use AI to rapidly master new bodies of law, translate them into operational systems, and create reusable AI agent capabilities that make each new legal domain faster and more efficient to support.
Legal Engineers collaborate actively with our product, software engineering, go-to-market, client engagement teams, and lawyers at Norm Law, LLP (“Norm Law”). You will also work with Norm’s former regulators and senior law firm partners and clients to identify high-value legal workflows and turn them into scalable AI agents that generate real commercial impact.
Legal Engineers support AI agent development across both Norm Ai and Norm Law. Norm Law is an independent, AI-native law firm and is the only law firm authorized to use Norm Ai’s platform in production legal workflows.
Legal Engineers focus on generalizable, high-leverage legal and regulatory AI agents that:
Address substantive legal workflows with meaningful commercial value.
Require deep legal reasoning and domain understanding to model correctly.
Create reusable AI agent capabilities that reduce development time and cost across future agents and legal domains.
What You’ll Do
Build Foundational Legal and Regulatory AI Agents
Design, build, and maintain AI agents that perform substantive legal and regulatory analysis.
Translate statutes, regulations, enforcement actions, and legal doctrine into structured, testable systems.
Take ownership of broad legal domains and develop deep subject-matter expertise with support from internal and external experts.
Identify reusable agent capabilities and collaborate with engineering partners to productionize them into the platform.
Prototype AI-Native Legal Workflows
Rapidly prototype legal agents using existing platform capabilities and modern AI tooling.
Discover missing or underdeveloped agent capabilities through real workflows and client use cases.
Partner with software and AI engineering teams to define, test, and ship new platform capabilities that unlock future development.
Work Closely With Clients and Industry Leaders
Validate agents using real client workflows, real data, and real economic constraints.
Collaborate with former regulators, senior practitioners, and client stakeholders to ensure legal accuracy and commercial relevance.
Support high-impact client engagements where discovery and validation directly inform platform direction.
AI Fluency Expectations
Norm Ai expects Legal Engineers to arrive already fluent in AI. Successful candidates actively use AI in their day-to-day professional work and personal workflows in meaningful ways. This includes using AI to accelerate legal research, draft and revise complex material, prototype tools, test ideas, and rethink how work gets done end-to-end.
Legal Engineers are expected to use AI as a default part of their own daily workflows and continuously experiment with new tools, workflows, and techniques.
Many of our Legal Engineers are writing code in the terminal similar to software engineers, with a few weeks of our intensive training.
Skills & Experience
Juris Doctor from a top U.S. law school.
Minimum of 3 years of legal practice experience, ideally at a top corporate law firm or equivalent.
Strong substantive legal analysis skills and the ability to learn new legal domains quickly.
Exceptional written communication skills and comfort translating legal reasoning into operational systems.
Demonstrated AI fluency and hands-on experience using AI tools in professional workflows.
What Success Looks Like
First 30 Days
Ramp quickly on Norm Ai’s platform and agent-building tools.
Develop working fluency in one or more supported legal or regulatory domains.
Contribute to agent prototyping, validation, and refinement using AI-native workflows.
First 60 Days
Independently design and test substantive legal AI agents.
Collaborate closely with product and engineering partners to improve agent outputs and platform capabilities.
Demonstrate effective, responsible use of AI to meaningfully increase speed and quality.
First 90 Days
Lead end-to-end delivery of a production-ready legal AI agent.
Establish subject-matter leadership in a core legal domain.
Identify opportunities to create reusable agent capabilities that benefit future development.
Embedded Client Deployments
Legal Engineers may occasionally embed with clients, including working on-site (typically in the NYC tri-state area) for extended periods. These engagements focus on developing new generalizable AI agents or platform capabilities through close collaboration with client teams.
Comp and Benefits
$175,000 - $225,000 per year plus equity.
The range displayed in this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salary for this position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including job-related skills (as uncovered during the interview process), experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed here reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity or benefits. We offer a competitive salary along with equity compensation. Our comprehensive benefits package includes a 401(k) plan with an employer match. Employees enjoy top-tier insurance coverage, encompassing health, dental, hospital, accident, and vision plans. For candidates needing to relocate to NYC, we provide relocation reimbursement. You'll thrive in our fast-paced learning environment where professional growth is constant.
We embrace a hybrid model, in-office 4-5 days per week.
If you’re interested in the role but aren’t sure whether you’re a good fit, we’d still like to hear from you.
To learn more about Norm Ai, visit our website.