Human Frontier Collective Fellow - Legal

PLEASE NOTE : This is a fully remote contract opportunity, with an estimated duration of 6 months. To be eligible, you must have authorization to work in the U.S.

The Human Frontier Collective (HFC) at Scale AI brings together domain experts, including PhDs, postdocs, advanced researchers, and elite professionals across diverse fields, to engage directly in pioneering generative AI research. As an HFC Legal Fellow, you will directly influence AI models tailored for practical legal applications, enabling cutting-edge tools to support lawyers in real-world scenarios. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience shaping AI technology specifically within the legal profession.

What You'll Do

• Create and Evaluate Real-World Legal Scenarios : Design realistic, complex legal scenarios that reflect practical challenges faced by attorneys, enabling robust testing and refinement of AI model capabilities.
• Collaborative AI Model Testing : Actively participate in interactive research sessions, assessing AI-generated legal content for accuracy, practical relevance, and adherence to regulatory standards.
• Directly Influence AI Development : Provide detailed feedback on model performance, highlighting strengths and identifying areas for improvement to better align AI capabilities with real-world legal practice.
• Domain-Specific AI Projects : Collaborate on specialized projects in fields such as regulatory compliance, litigation strategy, case law analysis, and contract law, enhancing AI's applicability across diverse legal disciplines.
• Thought Leadership in Legal AI : Contribute to and co-author thought-leading white papers, technical analyses, webinars, and panels, helping drive industry-wide conversations about AI's role in law.
• Networking and Professional Development : Join an exclusive community of leading legal experts, AI researchers, and industry innovators through dedicated mentorship and networking opportunities.

Who Should Apply

Why Join the HFC?

Advance the Frontiers of Generative AI

Join the Human Frontier Collective and contribute your expertise to meaningful AI research and practical industry challenges.

PLEASE NOTE : Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.

About Us :

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and / or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.

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