Senior Innovation Engineer Dallas

The Dallas office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is looking for a Senior Innovation Engineer to support the Information Technology Department. Willkie is an elite international law firm of approximately 1300 lawyers located in 16 offices in six countries.

The Senior Innovation Engineer will support the AI & Innovation team by designing and delivering secure scalable AI and low-code solutions that help attorneys business professionals and clients. This role will ship Harvey workflows and Power Automate low-code solutions run interactive AI working sessions and office hours and serve as the trusted AI advisor in the Dallas office. The Senior Innovation Engineer will work closely with the firms Learning & Technology Adoption team on enablement and training. This role will be in-office three days a week with some travel required.

At Willkie we believe great people are the key to our success. As such we are offering a highly competitive compensation package with exceptional benefits. If you are looking to work in a friendly collaborative environment that affords unique opportunities to expand your professional development this role is for you.

Development & AI Enablement:

• Design build test and deploy Harvey workflows (Assistants Vaults and Workflow Builder automations) in partnership with practice groups across Litigation Corporate & Financial Services Asset Management and other practices.
• Develop Power Automate and Power Platform low-code solutions that connect Harvey Microsoft 365 SharePoint and firm systems of record to eliminate manual steps in attorney workflows.
• Build and maintain Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) knowledge bases for firm-approved AI tools ensuring secure context-aware outputs grounded in authoritative source material.
• Contribute to the firms growing library of reusable workflows prompt patterns and integration templates so that solutions built for one matter or practice can be rapidly redeployed across the firm.
• Apply the firms Responsible AI principlesprivacy transparency accountability and human oversightin every build consistent with Willkies ISO/IEC 42001 AI management system.

Interactive AI Sessions & Program Delivery:

• Help design and deliver interactive AI working sessions office hours and enablement programsco-facilitating across the firms offices as neededguiding attorneys from a raw workflow idea to a production-ready Harvey or Power Platform build.
• Act as a hands-on technical contributor during interactive sessions and office hours: triaging ideas in real time pairing with attorneys to prototype and packaging outputs for post-session hardening and deployment.
• Capture session outputs adoption metrics and impact data and feed them back to AI & Innovation leadership practice group leaders and firm management.
• Contribute to the firmwide content pipeline coming out of these programscase studies demo videos and reusable prompt patterns.

Trusted Advisory & Enablement:

• Serve as the trusted AI voice in the Dallas officethe person attorneys and business professionals go to with workflow ideas Harvey questions and automation opportunities.
• Host Tech Office Hours in-person and remotely; deliver 1:1 coaching on Harvey and Power Platform workflows; answer questions through
• Partner with the firms Learning & Technology Adoption team to support rollout and change management for new AI workflows and tools; provide the technical depth and under-the-hood knowledge that complements LTAs broader training curriculum.
• Demo new workflows and AI capabilities in practice group meetings and working sessions across Willkies offices translating what the technology does into what it means for a specific practice.
• Stay current on AI developments Harvey releases and Power Platform capabilities; recommend what is worth the firms attention and what is not.

Measurement & Continuous Improvement:

• Track workflow adoption usage and business impact using Harvey and Power BI analytics; translate findings into clear narratives for practice leadership and firm management.
• Partner with the Applied AI team Innovation Advisors Learning & Technology Adoption Specialists IT and Application Development to scope design implement and sustain innovation projects.
• Translate attorney and business-professional requirements into actionable technical plans; communicate progress risks and outcomes to AI & Innovation leadership.
• Share observations and user feedback with internal product engineering and governance teams including AI governance leads to inform vendor roadmaps and firm policy.

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Computer Science Legal Studies Data Science or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 36 years of experience in legal technology enterprise solutions knowledge innovation or a comparable professional services environment.
• Hands-on experience building with at least one generative AI platformHarvey strongly preferredincluding prompt design Assistants/Agents and workflow orchestration.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform particularly Power Automate and Power Apps; SharePoint Online experience a plus.
• Working knowledge of RAG patterns vector stores and grounding techniques for legal content.
• Comfort with REST APIs JSON and integration basics; familiarity with Power BI SQL fundamentals and at least light scripting (JavaScript Python or similar) is a plus.
• Strong facilitation and communication skillsable to stand in front of a room of partners run a working session and translate complex systems into accessible language.
• Strong grounding in data governance responsible AI and information security principles particularly in a law firm or other regulated environment.
• Familiarity with other legal-tech platformsLexis AI / Protégé Wendell-type internal chatbots Centari Syntheia Kira CoCounsel or similaris preferred.
• Prior experience running working sessions demos or technology coaching in a professional services environment is preferred.

Tools & Platforms:

• AI & Workflow Tools: Harvey Lexis AI / Protégé Wendell Intelligence Centari Syntheia SuperComparer Rain Intelligence DeepL Microsoft Power Platform (Power Automate Power Apps Power BI AI Builder) Microsoft Logic Apps.
• Knowledge Management & Collaboration: SharePoint Online Microsoft Teams Thomson Reuters HighQ Contract Express Fliplet.
• Data & Analytics: Power BI dashboards and visualizations SQL fundamentals workflow adoption metrics.
• Automation & Low-Code: Power Automate workflow automation tooling low/no-code platforms.
• Supporting Skills: Light JavaScript CSS and Python for customization and integration of user-facing KM and AI solutions.

• Ability to sit at a desk most of the working day and walk short distances
• Needs manual dexterity speed and accuracy in handling office equipment
• Ability to work efficiently and accurately in an atmosphere of frequent interruption
• Ability to work in close proximity to other individuals
• Ability to carry light to moderate objects e.g. files small objects and supplies a short distance.
• Must be able to lift carry and move objects up to 40 lbs.

• Exempt

The salary range for this role represents the Firms good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent upon a number of factors including but not limited to the candidates relevant experience qualifications and location. Willkie offers a comprehensive suite of benefit programs to all eligible employees. A summary of available benefits can be found here in the Career section of the Firms website.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher is an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon actual or perceived: race (including hair texture protective hairstyles and other traits associated with race) color age religious creed citizenship citizenship status and alienage nationality national origin or ancestry ethnicity or creed disability genetic information or medical condition reproductive health decision making pregnancy or maternity paternity marital or civil partnership status caregiver status gender (including gender identity expression nonconformity gender reassignment or status as a transgender individual) sex sexual orientation or preference veteran or military status height weight any other characteristic protected by law or any combination thereof. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability please let the hiring manager know.

Pursuant to the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO) and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider qualified applicant with arrest and conviction records.