Senior Project Lead, Legal – Applied AI

Job overview

The Senior Project Lead, Legal – Applied AI role is onsite in San Francisco, CA. Compensation is $130,000–$200,000 per year base, with $400,000 OTE stated in the posting. The role supports legal-domain work for an applied AI company producing training data, reinforcement-learning environments, and agents for frontier AI labs. The role applies legal judgment to define quality and deliver legal datasets and evaluations that help improve how AI models reason about law. The project lead owns client engagements from scoping through delivery, translates research requirements into specifications, guides legal experts, and coordinates with engineering and operations.

What you'll do

• Own legal-domain engagements with AI lab researchers from scoping to delivery
• define quality standards and rubrics for legal answers
• translate requirements into dataset and evaluation specifications
• recruit, guide, and quality-check legal experts
• use data analysis and AI tools to review outputs and identify gaps
• coordinate with engineering and operations teams.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior project lead

legal

applied ai

legal datasets

ai evaluations

legal research

client engagements

data analysis

san francisco ca

onsite

$130k–$200k base

$400k ote

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Client-facing, high-ownership role at the intersection of law, AI, and operations; JD or equivalent and at least three years of legal practice required.

About the employer

talentpluto is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.