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Full-timeRemoteLegalactive

Remote | Member of Technical Staff, Legal Research — $400,000-$800,000/year

24-Mag LlcNew York, NY, United StatesPosted November 12, 2026

Job Description

1. Job Overview

24-MAG LLC is offering a full-time opportunity for experienced legal researchers and legal professionals to contribute to advanced AI research and evaluation initiatives. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams. Selected professionals will design rigorous evaluation frameworks for legal AI systems, conduct applied research on legal reasoning and interpretation, develop realistic benchmark environments, and collaborate with researchers and engineers to assess and improve AI performance across sophisticated legal tasks.

Why Join Us

  • Work on cutting-edge legal AI evaluation, benchmark development, and failure analysis.
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams of researchers, engineers, and legal professionals.
  • Engagement is full-time and fully remote.
  • Compensation range stated in the posting: $400,000–$800,000/year (the source notes there is a substantial compensation inconsistency and that final compensation terms should be confirmed during the hiring process).

Role Purpose

The role centers on designing and owning evaluation frameworks for legal AI, conducting applied legal research and reasoning studies, developing benchmark datasets and case studies, evaluating models and agentic systems, and contributing to research collaboration, standards, and best practices for evaluating AI-supported legal workflows.

2. Key Responsibilities

  • Design and own evaluation frameworks for AI systems operating in legal domains
  • Develop benchmark suites, scoring methodologies, and legal-quality rubrics
  • Establish research-grade protocols for evaluating complex legal tasks
  • Define consistent standards for assessing legal reasoning and analytical quality
  • Evolve evaluation methodologies as legal AI capabilities advance
  • Conduct applied research on legal reasoning and statutory interpretation
  • Analyse legal arguments, authorities, and structured decision-making processes
  • Research complex questions across relevant areas of law
  • Develop methodologies for assessing legal outcomes and research quality
  • Translate sophisticated legal concepts into structured evaluation criteria
  • Develop and curate datasets reflecting realistic legal challenges
  • Create case studies and benchmark environments for legal AI evaluation
  • Design tasks involving legal research, analysis, and workflow execution
  • Support evaluation of agentic legal workflows and automation
  • Maintain benchmark quality, consistency, and practical relevance
  • Evaluate legal-focused AI models and agentic systems
  • Analyse reasoning quality, output reliability, and recurring failure modes
  • Identify weak interpretations, unsupported conclusions, and methodological errors
  • Assess AI performance across different legal use cases
  • Provide structured findings to support model and evaluation improvements
  • Collaborate with legal researchers, engineers, and interdisciplinary teams
  • Produce research findings, evaluation methodologies, and best‑practice guidance
  • Monitor developments in legal technology, jurisprudence, regulation, and AI research
  • Contribute to legal benchmarking and knowledge‑management standards
  • Help establish rigorous practices for evaluating AI‑supported legal workflows

3. Required Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in Law, such as JD, LLM, SJD, PhD in Law, or equivalent

4. Required Skills

  • Demonstrated experience conducting legal research, legal analysis, or policy work
  • Strong understanding of legal reasoning and research methodology
  • Experience developing structured approaches for assessing legal arguments or outcomes
  • Strong analytical reasoning and written communication skills
  • Ability to translate legal expertise into rigorous evaluation criteria
  • Experience working with interdisciplinary research, technology, or legal‑operations teams

5. Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with legal technology or AI‑enabled legal workflows is advantageous
  • Background in legal benchmarking or legal knowledge management is beneficial
  • Published legal scholarship or policy research is valuable
  • Contributions to legal standards, frameworks, or research methodologies are advantageous

6. Experience Requirements

  • Stated experience level in the source: experienced legal researchers and legal professionals (no numeric years of experience specified in the source)

7. Additional Job Information

  • Employment type: Full-time engagement
  • Work mode: Fully remote
  • Notice period: Not stated in the source
  • Locations provided by employer: New York, NY; New York County, NY; New York State; United States
  • Compensation: $400,000–$800,000/year (the source notes a substantial compensation inconsistency; final compensation terms should be confirmed during the hiring process)
  • Other employment details from source: Work will involve legal research, AI evaluation, benchmark development, methodology design, and failure analysis. Assignments may span corporate law, contracts, litigation, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, employment law, and public policy. Strong legal‑research methodology and structured analytical judgement are central to this role. Collaboration will involve researchers, engineers, legal professionals, and other multidisciplinary contributors. Equity compensation and performance‑based incentives may be available depending on applicable employment terms and policies. Benefits may include health‑insurance support, paid time off, retirement‑plan contributions, and other employment benefits. Work must be completed without using confidential, privileged, proprietary, or otherwise restricted information belonging to any employer, client, law firm, institution, or other third party.
  • Application instructions: Not provided in the extracted source. Interested candidates should refer to the original job posting or the platform listing for application instructions and how to apply through 24-MAG LLC.

Skills & Competencies

Legal researchLegal reasoningBenchmark developmentAI evaluation

Job Overview

Job TypeFull-time
Work TypeRemote
Job FunctionLegal
IndustryLegal
LocationNew York, NY, United States
Posted DateNovember 12, 2026
Country Eligibility

Applications accepted from candidates residing in United States only.

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