Legal Expert Lead, Gemini Data, DeepMind

On-site in London·Added 3 days ago (last checked 15 Oct)

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Requirements

Minimum qualifications:

Juris Doctor (JD) degree, Master of Laws (LLM), or equivalent practical experience.
Experience measuring the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) or generative AI tools and optimizing them for legal use cases.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience prioritizing AI capabilities and collaborating closely with cross-functional technical partners to unlock value for legal professionals.
Experience breaking down legal workflows into concrete tasks, evaluation rubrics, and quality standards.
Demonstrated dual expertise bridging law and AI, such as transitioning from a legal practitioner into a technical machine learning role, or vice versa.
Strong technical capabilities, including programming proficiency, evaluating machine learning models, and applying Large Language Models to complex legal workflows.

The role

At DeepMind, we are expanding Gemini's frontier AI capabilities into highly specialized professional domains. As a part of a Legal Expert Lead, you will shape our foundational data strategy for the Legal sector. In this role, you will apply your deep domain knowledge to map complex Legal workflows, identify critical areas for model enhancement, and curate the high-quality data necessary to make Gemini the ultimate AI assistant for Legal professionals.Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity's most transformative inventions. At DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.
We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

France: €130000 - €133000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; London, UK; Paris, France.

Responsibilities

Set the Legal data strategy by mapping workflows into a use-case taxonomy, and partnering with research to prioritize capabilities, data coverage, and sourcing pipelines.
Create high-quality Legal data by designing tasks and rubrics, and QA-ing datasets from vendors, customers, and synthetic pipelines for correctness, realism, and coverage.
Steer data priorities using model failures by reproducing reported losses and stress-testing checkpoints on real workflows to identify missing legal knowledge and false assumptions.
Build Legal evaluations by assessing industry benchmarks to measure data strategy success, and advise cross-team evaluation efforts on legal coverage and realism.
Scale expertise by recruiting and guiding Subject Matter Expert (SMEs), acting as the domain authority to enforce vendor quality, and converting expert contributions into usable training data.

Hiring process

4 steps3 interviewsa task to do6–8 weeks in all

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One or two shorter conversations assessing key skills, sharing information about the organisation and team, and asking about your preferences such as location.
Project work
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For some roles, a small project before interviews: a case study, writing or code samples.
Interviews
With a rotating cast of Googlers
A panel of structured interviews, over video or in person, with a rotating cast of Googlers; open-ended role-related questions scored against the same rubric for every candidate, no brainteasers.
Decision and offer · With a recruiter

Structured interviews: every candidate for a role is scored against the same rubric; no brainteasers.
AI tools are not permitted during interviews.
For some roles, pre-selected interviews happen virtually before final interviews onsite.