Paralegal Expert

In this hourly, remote contractor position, you will serve as a Paralegal Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for reviewing AI-generated legal support responses and creating expert paralegal content. Your role involves evaluating the quality of reasoning and step-by-step task execution while providing precise written feedback. You will assess AI solutions for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to prompts. Additionally, you will identify errors related to legal terminology, procedural steps, document structure, issue spotting, and citation or authority handling when applicable. Fact-checking legal-adjacent information, writing high-quality explanations and model outputs that demonstrate correct methods, and rating multiple responses based on correctness and reasoning quality are also key components of this role. This opportunity is with SME Careers, a rapidly growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, which delivers training data to many of the world’s leading AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your legal expertise will directly contribute to improving the accuracy, reliability, and clarity of the world’s premier AI models’ legal reasoning.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop AI Training Content by creating detailed prompts and gold-standard paralegal deliverables such as document templates, checklists, research summaries, and drafting examples.
- Optimize AI Performance by evaluating and ranking AI responses to enhance correctness, clarity, formatting, and procedural usefulness.
- Ensure Model Integrity by testing AI outputs for inaccuracies, misleading certainty, confidentiality risks, and bias, while validating reliability across various legal support use cases.

Required Qualifications

- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Paralegal Studies, Legal Studies, or a related field; paralegal certification is considered a plus.
- Minimum of 4 years of professional experience as a paralegal or legal assistant, whether in a law firm, in-house legal department, or public sector.
- Strong command of legal support workflows, including intake, fact gathering, document drafting, version control, and matter organization.
- Proven experience conducting legal research and summarizing authorities such as cases, statutes, and regulations clearly and accurately.
- Familiarity with litigation processes (pleadings, discovery, subpoenas, motion practice support) and/or transactional workflows (contracts, corporate filings), depending on the assigned lane.
- Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to spot inconsistencies, missing facts, formatting issues, and ambiguous wording; minimum English proficiency at C1 level.
- Comfort working under confidentiality requirements and handling sensitive information appropriately.
- Reliable, self-directed, and capable of delivering consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor role across multiple time zones.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

- Prior experience with AI data training or annotation, document quality assurance, legal operations, or editorial review is strongly preferred.
- While there is no immediate project available, qualified candidates will be among the first contacted for upcoming opportunities, gaining access to future projects through the expert network.

This role offers a unique chance to leverage your paralegal expertise to shape the future of AI-driven legal support tools, contributing to more accurate and trustworthy AI legal reasoning on a global scale.