Legal AI Research Contributor

The role

Subject Matter Experts will write realistic Excel tasks to test how well AI performs legal professional work. You will build tasks by extending, fixing, or building Excel models from a brief.

What you will do

• Writing realistic Excel tasks drawn from your own work
• Extending existing models, fixing broken ones and building from a brief
• Working through each task yourself so there is a clear, correct answer
• Writing yes-or-no criteria precise enough that a grader can mark any attempt against them

Required qualifications

• 3+ years in legal practice, restructuring/insolvency, litigation support or legal operations, covering disputes, insolvency, commercial or corporate matters
• Deep hands-on Excel: claims registers, damages calculations, data cleaning, multi-criteria lookups and error tracing
• Strong written English communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Willingness to learn concepts in AI and Evals

Before you apply

• Apply with your details and CV
• Choose an available 30-minute group walkthrough call
• Attend the walkthrough and create one original task from your own work
• Submit the brief and the actual input workbook(s) needed to complete it
• Completing onboarding does not guarantee a job offer; selection remains subject to written approval of the task proposal

About the company

Aptura is an applied AI and data company working with frontier labs to train AI systems on real professional work. They build high-quality evaluation and training environments to teach AI agents to produce work for daily workflows.