Legal AI Engineering Intern
Paradigm Legal combines AI legal research and drafting agents and deep legal expertise to advise clients on AI governance, autonomous systems, and digital economies. Working across 10+ countries, our counsel has handled hundreds of matters and understands how legal frameworks succeed and fail at the frontier.
We are the first AI-enhanced, full-service law firm built for every legal issue — from routine to unprecedented legal matters.
Read more at: https://www.paradigm.legal
About the Role
Eight-week summer internship, June through July. Part-time (schedule flexible). Remote, with optional onsite work in NYC. The Legal Engineer Intern will work closely with legal and technology teams to aid in maintaining and building new features for our AI Legal OS. Responsibilities include conducting research into legal systems and processes, developing and testing software tools for legal automation, analyzing data to optimize legal processes, and collaborating with stakeholders to identify and refine potential solutions.
Qualifications
• Familiarity with programming languages such as Python or JavaScript, and skills in automation or AI application development, knowledge of systems like knowledge graphs and Langchain.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Law, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field
You Will
• Build high-throughput ingestion and transformation pipelines for legal documents and metadata
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas for analytics and AI retrieval at scale
• Implement data cleaning/normalization for messy real-world legal text
• Integrate structured data with vector databases and LLM systems for RAG workflows
• Optimize queries and indexes for sub-second performance over millions of records
• Build API endpoints and backend services (Node.js/Next.js) that expose data to our frontend
• Deploy and monitor data infrastructure on AWS (RDS, S3, Lambda, EC2)
To Apply
Send e-mail to apply@paradigm.legal include: Resume + GitHub/LinkedIn + brief note on your most complex data system + tell us what makes you tick
