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Legal Subject Matter Expert, SME

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🕒 May 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Posted on TransPerfect's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship May 19

Still open on TransPerfect's site. Checked 5 hours ago.

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TransPerfect

5001 - 10000 employees

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Legal • Marketing

TransPerfect is a global language and technology company that provides translation, localization, interpretation, and content services combined with software and AI-powered tools such as the GlobalLink translation management platform. It offers multilingual marketing, legal and life‑sciences regulatory support, contact center/BPO services, multimedia localization, and solutions for website, software and app globalization. TransPerfect serves large enterprise and Fortune 500 clients across dozens of industries and supports content in 200+ languages.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary legal authority during AI model training and fine-tuning • Develop knowledge bases, legal taxonomies, and ontologies reflecting multi-jurisdictional standards and complex legal hierarchies • Annotate, label, and validate legal datasets, including case law citations, statutory interpretations, and contractual clauses • Collaborate with AI/ML engineers on legal reasoning and drafting training-data strategies and prompt-engineering techniques • Audit model outputs and identify hallucinations, legal inaccuracies, and ambiguities • Partner with product teams to align AI capabilities with legal objectives such as reducing discovery timelines and automating risk assessment • Monitor emerging LegalTech trends and AI-related regulations for ethical and compliant implementation • Work with data scientists, AI engineers, and product teams to build intelligent legal solutions and high-quality datasets representing realistic legal workflows

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) or Master of Laws (LLM) from an accredited law school • 10–20 years of experience in the legal sector • Proven ability to translate complex legal processes into structured logic and data requirements • Exceptional writing and verbal skills, with the ability to bridge technical AI teams and legal stakeholders • Familiarity with legal technology stacks such as CLM, eDiscovery platforms, or legal research databases (Westlaw/LexisNexis) • Awareness of ethical Generative AI practices, including bias detection and responsible data usage • Active bar membership is a plus • Familiarity with Generative AI concepts, prompt engineering, and data preparation is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible hours, based on the applicant's availability • Freelancer / Independent Contractor engagement model • Project duration of 3 months with potential extension

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