Legal AI Quality Assurance Lead

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About AI Training Work

AI training is the human side of building modern artificial intelligence. Legal specialists review and evaluate model responses so AI systems become more accurate, clear, cautious, and useful across complex professional contexts.

This work is remote and part of a fast-growing technology industry. Contributors can help shape how advanced AI handles research, contracts, compliance questions, and other legal content.

The Role

OpenTrain is hiring a Legal Quality Assurance Lead to oversee quality and consistency across legal AI training projects. You will review AI-generated legal explanations, legal research responses, contract analyses, policy interpretations, case summaries, and compliance guidance.

The role combines legal content review with quality monitoring, trainer and QA communication, documentation, onboarding support, and process improvement for remote legal-review teams. The listed experience level is entry level, with a strong legal background required.

• Location: United States
• Language: English
• Time commitment: 20+ hours per week
• Engagement: Part-time contractor
• Pay: $120 per hour

What You'll Do

You will evaluate legal AI outputs and trainer QA work against detailed project standards. You will also help keep distributed teams aligned through clear communication, accurate documentation, and practical process improvements.

• Review legal AI outputs and trainer QA work for accuracy, clarity, caution, and rubric adherence.
• Identify recurring quality issues and escalate critical problems.
• Communicate project updates, guidelines, and expectations to trainers and QAs.
• Maintain style guides, trackers, FAQs, examples, honeypots, and onboarding materials.
• Support onboarding calls, training workflows, and ongoing quality alignment.
• Flag unsafe, misleading, overconfident, or jurisdictionally inappropriate legal outputs.
• Help improve scalable QA processes for legal AI training projects.

Required Qualifications

This role requires strong legal judgment and the ability to assess nuanced written content. You should be comfortable giving precise written feedback, coordinating with remote teams, and maintaining operational materials with close attention to detail.

• Strong background in legal practice, legal research, contract review, compliance, or related work.
• Strong English communication skills for written feedback and team coordination.
• Ability to evaluate legal content against detailed rubrics.
• Ability to identify reasoning, citation, and jurisdiction issues.
• Organized and detail-oriented approach to operational documentation.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams is strongly preferred.
• Experience with AI training, data annotation, prompt or response evaluation, or legal content QA is a plus.

Helpful Background and Tools

A JD, LLB, LLM, or equivalent degree in law or a closely related field is helpful. Familiarity with collaborative and project-tracking tools can support the documentation, onboarding, and coordination responsibilities of the role.

• JD, LLB, LLM, or equivalent law degree.
• Familiarity with Discord.
• Familiarity with Google Sheets and Google Docs.
• Experience using trackers, dashboards, and project management tools.

How to Apply

Create a free OpenTrain account to build your AI training profile and apply in minutes. If selected, you will contribute legal expertise to the human review and evaluation work that helps improve cutting-edge AI systems.