Legal AI Engineer

Broadfield is a global law firm that operates in a strategic partnership with SHP Legal Services, an Alvarez & Marsal affiliate. Founded in late 2024, it has expanded to serve the U.S., UK, Hong Kong, and Brazil, specializing in transactions and litigation. Through Broadfield’s partnership with SHP, our goal is to build a best-in-class legal operating system that powers how our attorneys work, improves the client experience, and ultimately shapes how we compete in a fast-changing environment. We believe a modern law firm should provide global services focused on business outcomes at a rational price.

This is a foundational role for a dedicated AI builder, working directly with the Chair of the Innovation Committee and SHP Legal Services to move fast, and interacting directly with practicing lawyers across transactional and litigation practices, as well as with the SHP technology team, to empower their use of legal AI tools. Our near-term focus: Encoding the firm's legal DNA and our attorneys' expertise into infrastructure and workflows that compound over time. Concretely, in the initial phase of our journey, you will:

• Map and structure the firm's playbooks, litigation frameworks, and due diligence processes into reusable knowledge assets
• Build custom workflows, in particular for document-intensive work across practices — from due diligence automation and playbook-based markup review on the transactional side, to discovery analysis, case chronologies, and brief research on the litigation side
• Design the RAG architecture that grounds AI outputs in the firm's proprietary precedents, deal data, and case materials
• Establish the prompt architecture library, guardrails, and quality standards that every subsequent build will draw from, and collaborate with attorneys to define what constitutes good output

It is a plus but not a requirement if you have already sat inside a law firm, legal tech company, or professional services firm, have built AI-powered workflows, or have had exposure to transactional or litigation workflows and data privacy, privilege, and confidentiality considerations in AI deployment.

We are equally open to exceptional recent graduates who demonstrate genuine technical depth and the drive to build from day one.

Technical Depth We're Looking For

• Hands-on experience building with legal AI tools (Harvey, Legora, or equivalent) or LLM APIs (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, or equivalent)
• Experience designing and implementing RAG pipelines — chunking strategies, embedding models, and retrieval optimization
• Familiarity with workflow automation frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent) for multi-step AI pipeline construction
• Ability to translate unstructured legal documents into structured, machine-readable knowledge assets
• Proficiency with prompt engineering at a production level — system prompt architecture, guardrails, output schema design, edge case handling
• Comfort working with APIs, JSON, Python, or equivalent scripting

What Matters More than Credentials

• Builder instinct: you measure your tools’ success by adoption, not by what you’ve shipped 
• Speed and judgment: you know when to prototype fast and when to get it right
• Communication: you can explain what you built both to a partner and to a machine
• Ownership: you treat the legal operations system as yours

Most law firms hiring for legal AI roles are reluctant to implement change given compensation structures and/or investment parameters. At Broadfield, we are designing to counter that, and we are ready to implement changes immediately. Your contribution here will go directly into attorney-facing workflows and inform how we deliver client work. These workflows will directly support Broadfield’s competitive positioning as a global, multi-practice platform for the modern age. 

Your role will report directly to the firm's Chair of the Innovation Committee and will shape how the firm operates at every seniority level. This is a role for someone passionate about how technology will shape the future of legal services and, more broadly, all advisory-adjacent services and offerings.

Compensation: $150,000 base salary + eligibility for a discretionary bonus

To apply, please send us a note detailing something you have built, such as a workflow, a pipeline, or a knowledge system, and how that tool was used. Ultimately, we care more about what you’ve accomplished than about a resume.