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# Legal Engineer at NetDocuments

- **Company:** NetDocuments
- **Location:** Lehi, UT / -, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/netdocuments/jobs/5434028008

## Job description

NetDocuments is committed to providing an excellent candidate experience and will never ask you to engage in recruitment activity without phone, video, and in person meetings and communications from emails using the @netdocuments.com domain. If you have any concerns or questions about communications you have received, please send them to hrgroup@netdocuments.com so our team members can review.

## About NetDocuments

At NetDocuments, we're shaping the future of legal work. We believe legal professionals should spend less time searching for information and managing documents, and more time solving complex problems, serving clients, and delivering meaningful outcomes. That's why we're building technology that helps organizations work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and unlock the full value of their institutional knowledge.

Our team is redefining what's possible for legal technology. NetDocuments is the trusted intelligent document management platform for legal professionals and the company behind the industry's first and only legal context graph—a breakthrough that gives legal professionals and AI a richer understanding of how matters, documents, people, and knowledge connect across an organization while respecting enterprise-grade security, governance, permissions, and ethical walls.

Innovation is only part of our story. We believe our greatest strength is our people. We foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture where curiosity is encouraged, diverse perspectives are valued, and employees are empowered to make a meaningful impact. Whether you're building products, serving customers, or supporting the business, your work helps shape the future of one of the world's most trusted legal technology platforms.

That commitment to our employees and customers has earned us recognition as one of the nation's top workplaces, including:

- Four consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies
- Five-time Top Workplace USA winner
- Five-time Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplace
- Multiple Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards recognizing innovation, employee appreciation, work-life flexibility, and compensation & benefits

If you're excited to solve meaningful challenges, work alongside talented colleagues, and help define the next generation of legal technology, we'd love to meet you.

Your opportunity for impact:

NetDocuments is seeking a Legal Engineer. This exciting new role sits at the intersection of legal practice, software development and product management. The Legal Engineering team will have primary responsibility for evaluating and improving the performance of NetDocuments’ systems and products on tasks that require legal knowledge for quality assurance. Legal Engineering is an enablement team serving our product teams, not external customers. Legal Engineers will not be “forward deployed.” Legal Engineers will partner with and advise product managers, engineering managers, and designers across the company. Legal Engineers will have responsibility for designing and implementing legal quality assurance evaluations and implementing platforms to support that work. Legal Engineers will also be tasked with discovering, proving, and recommending methods to improve legal quality in NetDocuments’ systems and allow our customers to get more value from their data.

This role reports to the Manager of Legal Engineering. The ideal candidate is a person with experience in some combination of legal practice, software development including coding agents, non-deterministic system evaluation, data set generation and curation, and who is inspired by the opportunity to make agentic legal AI both more reliable and more trustworthy.

What your contributions will be:

Legal Quality and Evaluation: Define what correct means for legal AI output and then design, build, and implement trustworthy, repeatable evaluations and software tools that allow our product teams to maximize legal quality.

Legal Domain Advice: Contribute your legal experience to the work of our product teams on an advisory basis. This might include reviewing specifications, prompts, taxonomies, and product copy for legal accuracy, or giving product teams a fast, credible answer to whether designs match how legal professionals think and work.

System Improvements: Find and prove out changes to existing systems that improve legal quality performance. This is a wide-ranging can be improving prompts, improving agentic workflows, or prototyping new features and new technologies.

What you will bring to the team:

- Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
- The ability to speak law to technologists, and to speak technology to lawyers
- Demonstrated ability to manage time and prioritize projects to meet deadlines
- Strong attention to detail

Required Education and Experience

- JD, LLB, or equivalent legal qualification, or a Bachelor’s Degree plus 3+ years working directly in legal practice, legal knowledge management, or legal operations
- Experience building executable software systems that work on legal data and improve legal workflows
- Experience working with structured data and formats such as JSON, XML, and Markdown
- Experience using agentic AI systems for legal and software development tasks

Nice-to-Have Knowledge and Experience

- Experience with the evaluation of non-deterministic systems, including data curation and generation, grading, evaluation metrics and techniques
- Experience building and improving agentic workflows for legal tasks
- Knowledge of Computational Law techniques outside of machine learning
- Familiarity with harness development and AI-assisted software development lifecycle practices
- Full-stack software development experience

Benefits:

- 90% healthcare premiums company covered
- HSA company contribution
- 401K match at 4% with immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year)
- 10 paid holidays
- Monthly contributions for wellness
- Access to LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore

## Compensation Transparency

The compensation range for this position is:  $155,000 - $165,000

The posted cash compensation for this position includes on target earnings, base salary and variable if applicable. Some roles may qualify for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are determined based on various factors specific to each candidate, such as career level, skills, experience, geographic location, qualifications, and other job-related considerations

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## Equal Opportunity

NetDocuments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, (including pregnancy), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military and veteran status, or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. NetDocuments believes diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success, and we are committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

## About NetDocuments

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: NetDocuments is the world’s #1 trusted cloud-based intelligent document management and productivity platform built specifically for legal professionals.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held; backed by Warburg Pincus, Cove Hill Partners, and Frontier Growth with ~$30M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Lehi, Utah, United States
- **Founded**: 1998
- **Founders**: Kenneth Duncan, Alvin Tedjamulia, Lee Duncan

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Legal technology, document management, SaaS
- **Target customers**: Law firms, corporate legal departments, government agencies (B2B, Enterprise, SMB)
- **Mission / Purpose**: “We help legal professionals do their best work.” — a mission embedded in the company’s DNA for 25+ years, focused on delivering a comprehensive, intelligent document management platform that improves productivity, security, and collaboration.

## Products & Services
- **NetDocuments Platform (Core DMS)**: Cloud-native document, email, and records management service accessible via web browser, with desktop and mobile apps. Includes metadata management, search, and workflow automation. (SaaS)
- **Legal AI Assistant**: An AI-powered front door that allows users to ask questions of one or hundreds of files and get instant, reliable answers. Part of the ndMAX Studio hub for AI and automation. (SaaS / AI)
- **ndMAX Studio**: A hub for AI and automation in legal work, offering ready-to-go AI apps for multiple legal use cases, educational videos, and demos. (SaaS)
- **Microsoft 365 Integration**: Real-time desktop and web co-authoring across Microsoft Office applications, with expanded integration capabilities. (Integration)
- **Compliance & Security Certifications**: FedRAMP-Authorized instance for government agencies; multiple ISO (27001, 27017, 27701, 27018) and SOC 2 (Type 2) certifications; compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, LGPD. (Service / Infrastructure)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ~$100M (latest estimate); Total Funding ~$30M
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Warburg Pincus (parent company, led secondary market round in 2021), Cove Hill Partners (led secondary market round in 2019), Frontier Growth (led $25M venture round in 2014). Key partners include Microsoft.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 7,000+ customers globally; 150+ customers using the intelligent DMS
  - Employee headcount grew 19.3% YoY to 448 employees (as of mid-2026)
  - 46 active job postings (up 206.7% YoY)
  - Expanded into 12 countries (UK, Australia, India, Canada, Brazil, etc.)
  - Acquired Afterpattern (2021) and Community (year not specified) to broaden capabilities

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in cloud DMS**: Cloud-native for 25+ years, giving deep legal domain expertise and a mature, reliable platform (99.9% uptime).
- **Trust & Compliance**: FedRAMP-Authorized, ISO/SOC 2 certified, built-in compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, LGPD — a critical differentiator for law firms and government clients.
- **AI Innovation**: Legal AI Assistant and ndMAX Studio provide responsible, lawyer-inspired AI tools that address real business needs.
- **Ecosystem Lock-in**: Deep integrations with Microsoft 365 and a single system of record that serves as the backbone for legal workflows.
- **Customer Obsession**: 4x per week release cadence, continuous innovation based on customer feedback, and a “passion for people” culture.

## Strategic Focus
- **Intelligent Document Management**: Moving beyond basic DMS to an AI-driven platform that automates workflows and delivers instant answers.
- **Next-Generation Experiences**: Redesigning the UI based on Microsoft’s Fluent Design for a seamless, consistent experience across devices and OS.
- **Responsible AI**: Fast but responsible innovation, with a focus on reliability and trust (Legal AI Assistant, ndMAX Studio).
- **Global Expansion**: Operating in 12 countries and continuing to scale internationally.
- **Community & Giving Back**: Work Inspired Scholarship Program (nearly $100K awarded), partnership with Tech-Moms, Junior Achievement volunteer projects.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Employees voted NetDocuments a Top Workplace. Core values: “win together,” “passionate hard work,” “exploring new things,” “every interaction matters,” and “take personal ownership.” Monthly all-hands meetings, CEO coin awards, peer recognition platform.
- **Benefits**:
  - 90% covered health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  - 401k with company match and no vesting period
  - Flexible PTO (average employee takes 3–4 weeks per year)
  - 6 weeks paid parental leave
  - Annual lifestyle spending allowance
  - Access to LinkedIn Learning
  - Company-paid life insurance and EAP
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office (HQ in Lehi, UT). Remote-friendly? Not explicitly stated, but global team suggests flexibility. Bi-annual reviews and merit increases.
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on innovation, modern tech stack (Fluent UI, AI), and cross-team collaboration. Open roles include Staff Software Engineer, Data Architect, Principal AI Engineer, and AI Strategy Director.

## Sources
1. [NetDocuments Careers Page](https://www.netdocuments.com/company/careers/)
2. [NetDocuments Main Site](https://www.netdocuments.com/)
3. [NetDocuments Our People Page](https://www.netdocuments.com/company/our-people/)
4. [NetDocuments Our Strategy Page](https://www.netdocuments.com/company/our-strategy/)
5. [NetDocuments LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/netdocuments)

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