Manager of Legal Engineering

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NetDocuments is the worlds #1 trusted cloud-based content management and productivity platform that helps legal professionals do their best work. We strive to win together through passionate hard work exploring new things and recognizing every interaction matters.

NetDocuments provides rewarding career growth in an inclusive diverse environment where employees are encouraged to openly contribute creative ideas and innovation backed by supportive peers and leadership working together to achieve our goals as a unified team.

At our core we are dedicated to empowering our employees to drive successful business outcomes and better user experiences for our customers and partners. Our customer-centric approach and employee enablement has allowed us to enjoy many accolades including being named among the& 2024 list of Inc. Magazines 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America.

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• 2025 Remote Work
• 2024 Technology Industry

NetDocuments is a hybrid remote-friendly workplace. Come join our team and work inspired each day!

What Youll Do

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

NetDocuments 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.

This is not a sales engineering or customer-facing solutions role. This is a build role at the center of R&D. You will be the lawyer in the room when we decide what an agent needs to know about a litigation matter versus an M&A deal versus a regulatory investigation and you will encode that judgment into schemas skills and evaluation harnesses that ship in production. A pure technologist would model a matter one way; you know that a litigation matter lives and dies on its claims parties key events and procedural posture and you can express that knowledge in a form an agent can use.

Youll operate as a player-coach: a senior individual contributor who also builds and leads a small special-forces team of legal engineers working across every product team in R&D.

You will:

• Own 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 work.
• Build 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 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 agents output and ensure our products can answer them.

What Youll Need to be Successful

• A law degree and real practice experience including a minimum of 13 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 GitHub contributor. You dont need to be a production engineer but your team should ideally be fluent in building starting with you.
• 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 Youll Love About NetDocuments

• 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 LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore

Compensation Transparency

The compensation range for this position is:$190000 - $210000

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

NetDocuments 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. NetDocuments 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.