Operational Law Attorney (JAG) SME

The work

You will help assess whether AI-generated answers handle complex operational-law questions with sound reasoning, clear limits, and appropriate uncertainty. The work includes creating legal examples, reviewing model responses, and supporting a detailed legal framework for evaluation.

• Create and categorize boundary cases involving distinction, proportionality, and precautions in attack.
• Judge ambiguous military legal scenarios and document the reasoning and authorities behind each conclusion.
• Review AI-generated responses for legal rigor, depth of reasoning, caution, and treatment of uncertainty.
• Identify responses that are either too cautious or not rigorous enough on complex military legal questions.
• Validate and refine a legal taxonomy and maintain clear records of edge cases and supporting authorities.

What it pays and takes

• Pay: $95 to $170 per hour.
• Work arrangement: Remote, part-time contract work.
• Location: Open to candidates across the listed countries in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
• Language: Fluent in English.
• Required background: JAG or equivalent legal experience with direct operational law work advising commanders or working with the law of armed conflict, rules of engagement, targeting, or detention.
• Required knowledge: Distinction, proportionality, precautions in attack, the Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocols, customary international humanitarian law, and relevant rules of engagement frameworks.
• Required skills: Exceptional legal writing, analytical judgment, and the ability to explain complex conclusions precisely.
• Helpful background: Command or combatant command legal office work, targeting cell experience, operational legal review, teaching, intelligence law, cyber law, international humanitarian and human rights law, AI evaluation, wargaming, or governance.

How it works

You apply here in about two minutes and finish on the hiring platform. The next step is a short AI interview (technical roles include a coding challenge). Passing it is how you qualify for paid tasks, so take it soon after you are invited.

The hiring platform's application for this job asks for your resume, your LinkedIn profile, your phone number, your location and answers to 7 screening questions.

About AI training work

AI training is the human work behind modern artificial intelligence, including writing, reviewing, and rating model responses. People with specialized legal knowledge help models handle complex subjects more accurately and explain their limits clearly.