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Member of Technical Staff, Legal Research

Johannesburg, Gauteng🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $200,000–$200,000🗓 2026-09-27

Core

Design evaluation frameworks for AI agents in legal domains and conduct original research on legal reasoning and statutory interpretation.

Role type

Senior IC research scientist (legal AI)

Builds

Benchmark suites, scoring methodologies, and research-grade evaluation protocols for legal AI systems

Domain

Artificial Intelligence + Legal Technology

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Advanced legal research, statutory interpretation, dataset curation, analytical reasoning, interdisciplinary collaboration

Preferred skills

Legal technology experience, legal benchmarking, published legal scholarship

Technologies

Large language models, agentic systems

Responsibilities

Design and evolve evaluation frameworks for AI agents in legal domains, conduct original research on legal reasoning and workflow automation, develop and curate datasets reflecting real-world legal challenges, analyze model performance and failure modes across legal use cases, publish internal research findings and methodologies, stay current with legal technology and regulatory developments

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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