Operational Law Attorney, JAG SME (English)

You will help evaluate whether AI-generated responses handle military activities, surveillance, privacy, and lawful conduct with sound legal reasoning. The work includes assessing legal rigor, appropriate caution, and how clearly a response explains uncertainty and legal limits.

You will also create and organize difficult examples, maintain a legal taxonomy, and record the authorities behind your conclusions.

• Author and categorize boundary cases involving distinction, proportionality, and precautions in attack.
• Assess ambiguous military legal scenarios and document the reasoning and supporting authorities for each conclusion.
• Review AI responses for legal depth, sound reasoning, appropriate caution, and treatment of uncertainty.
• Identify both excessive caution and insufficient rigor in answers to complex military legal questions.
• Validate and refine a legal taxonomy so it remains reliable under detailed review.
• Maintain clear records of edge cases and the legal authorities supporting your conclusions.

What it pays and takes

This is a remote, part-time contract role for candidates who can work in English.

• Pay: $95 to $150 per hour.
• Work type: Remote, part-time contract work.
• Location: Open to candidates in the countries specified in the listing, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.
• Language: Fluent English is required.
• Background: JAG or equivalent legal experience with direct operational-law work advising commanders or working with the law of armed conflict, rules of engagement, targeting, or detention.
• Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocols, customary international humanitarian law, and relevant rules of engagement frameworks.
• Skills: Exceptional legal writing, analytical judgment, and the ability to explain complex conclusions precisely.
• Helpful experience: Command or combatant command legal offices, targeting cells, operational legal review, teaching, intelligence law, cyber law, international humanitarian and human rights law, AI evaluation, wargaming, or governance.

How it works

You apply here in about two minutes and finish on the hiring platform. The next step is a short AI interview (technical roles include a coding challenge). Passing it is how you qualify for paid tasks, so take it soon after you are invited.

The hiring platform's application for this job asks for your resume, your LinkedIn profile, your phone number, your location and answers to 7 screening questions.

About AI training work

AI training work is the human side of building artificial intelligence. Contributors write, review, and rate examples so AI systems can produce more accurate and responsible results, while specialists are paid for the judgment their subject knowledge brings to difficult cases.