Legal Engineer

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 auditability, reliability, and trust.

Norm’s platform combines frontier AI, proprietary legal reasoning systems, and embedded legal and regulatory expertise.

Norm Ai has raised more than $100 million, backed by Blackstone, Bain Capital, Vanguard, Citi, New York Life, TIAA, Coatue, Craft Ventures, and Marc Benioff.

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. Norm hired dozens of lawyers from premier U.S. law firms and trained them as Legal Engineers, who specialize in breaking down legal workflows into units of analysis targeted enough to reliably leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) for reasoning. The granular LLM outputs that constitute a given workflow are orchestrated in a logically structured and human interpretable manner and rigorously validated against data and expertise. The resulting dynamic systems can complete the first pass of the legal workflow and provide detailed explanations.

We also developed the first Domain Specific Language (DSL) for fully representing regulatory requirements in AI code. This DSL, deployed with our enterprise platform, enables Norm clients to transform workflows and apply compliance checks at the source of business activities.

Norm Ai technology is deployed inside some of the largest and most consequential institutions in the world. The company is growing quickly and hiring across all teams.

This Role

As a key member of the legal staff at Norm Ai, you will provide direct input to product decisions that require legal knowledge. The Legal Engineering team leverages a proprietary internal software platform to create representations of regulations that provide the basis for our product’s AI agent capabilities. You will collaborate closely with our software engineering and executive teams to design and refine our AI-driven compliance solutions. Your legal expertise will ensure our products meet the highest standards.

• Develop Regulatory AI Agents: You will use our proprietary, no-code internal software tools to create representations of regulations that provide the basis for our automated compliance reviews. Legal Engineers have the opportunity to take ownership of broad regulatory areas, becoming subject-matter experts and leading conversations with current and prospective clients.

• Regulatory Analysis: Conduct legal research and stay apprised of industry and government developments; update and tailor regulatory AI agents

• Prompt Engineering: Develop, write, and refine calls to Large Language Models, in collaboration with our AI engineering team

• Support Client-specific Deployments: Serve as a subject-matter expert, collaborating with our Client Engagement team to deploy the Norm Ai platform with client-specific customizations. 

• Team Leadership: Help coach and grow the legal engineering team, fostering a fast-paced and rigorous work culture.

• Juris Doctor.

• Minimum of 3 years in a relevant legal or regulatory field, such as law firm practice, or finance, insurance or healthcare industry legal/compliance roles.

• Exceptional written communication skills.

• A strong interest in LLMs.

• Note: no technical AI experience is required for this role.

What Success Looks Like

• Ramp up on the Norm Ai platform, especially our internal tools used for building AI Agents.

• Develop a working knowledge of key regulatory frameworks we support (e.g., SEC, FINRA, CFTC).

• Begin contributing to agent training or ruleset validation with oversight from more senior Legal Engineers.

• Independently design and test regulatory AI agents based on public regulations and/or client internal policies.

• Collaborate with product and AI engineering teams to improve agent outputs and infrastructure.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of at least one AI Agent, from source interpretation to deployment.

• Demonstrate subject-matter leadership in a core regulatory area (e.g., marketing rules, disclosure, conflicts).

• Proactively identify product improvements and contribute to the team's future priorities.

Legal Engineer Deployments: All Legal Engineers may spend significant time on-site at client locations (typically in the NYC metro area) as we support in-depth AI deployments. These deployments are collaborative and high-impact.

Comp and Benefits

$175,000 - $225,000 a 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.