Legal Subject Matter Expert, SME

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🕒 May 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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TransPerfect

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5001 - 10000 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

⚖️ Legal

💰 $425M Debt Financing - TransPerfect on 2025-04

Consulting • Marketing • Legal

TransPerfect is the world’s largest provider of language and AI services, offering translation, localization, and specialized AI-data capabilities through its DataForce division. The company operates globally (140+ cities, 200+ languages) and combines linguistic expertise with modern AI-data practices to build culturally aware, secure, and scalable data pipelines used to train, test, evaluate, and localize AI systems. TransPerfect primarily serves enterprise clients and connects distributed contributors with flexible opportunities to participate in AI projects.

📋 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