AI Legal Engineer

Holland & Knight LLP is a leading law firm seeking an AI Legal Engineer responsible for designing and operationalizing AI-enabled workflows to enhance legal practice. This role involves collaborating with attorneys to build structured AI solutions that improve efficiency and support the adoption of AI technologies within the firm.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, test, and deploy AI legal workflows and skills across firm-approved AI tools, supporting use cases such as contract review, due diligence, drafting, research, and summarization
• Partner directly with attorneys and knowledge management professionals to identify high-value use cases, map workflows, and translate practice needs into structured AI solutions
• Develop and maintain retrieval pipelines, document templates, and reusable workflow components with clear, attorney-ready documentation
• Build and execute evaluation frameworks to measure workflow quality, accuracy, and reliability; monitor performance and iterate based on feedback and outcomes
• Serve as a go-to resource for enablement and change management for developed workflows, partnering with the AI Adoption team to drive usage, deliver training sessions and workshops, 1:1 coaching, and develop practical playbooks and materials that support sustained adoption
• Develop and scale best-practice standards, use-case libraries, and playbooks that empower attorneys to responsibly and independently leverage AI tools while maintaining quality and risk controls
• Embed human-review checkpoints and audit mechanisms aligned with Firm governance, confidentiality, and professional responsibility requirements
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders including the AI Product team, AI Adoption team, Knowledge & Innovation team, IT, Innovation Practice Group, and Professional Development to ensure aligned delivery and support
• Track adoption, usage, and impact metrics for deployed workflows and recommend refinements or expansion opportunities
• Manage ongoing maintenance of production workflows, including updates to prompts, retrieval sources, and guardrails in response to model and platform changes, user feedback, or evolving practice needs
• Represent the AI Products & Adoption team in internal meetings, committees, and practice group sessions
• Expected to maintain a regular and predictable work schedule and full attention to and engagement in work activities on behalf of the firm during business hours unless otherwise approved or required by applicable law
• Special projects and duties as assigned