Legal & Compliance Specialist – Rubric Design
Up to $120/hr
Remote law contract with SME Careers, up to $120/hr, open to people in United States. First seen Oct 28.
Up to $120/hr
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- Pay
- About typicalTops out at $120/hr. The typical top rate across 99 priced law listings is $120/hr.
- Getting in
- Some screening~30 min: profile + 15-min AI interview. Credentials in your field.
- Steady work
- Work is patchyProjects can end a placement for quality issues.
- Payout record
- Pays on timeSchedule: weekly. Paid via Deel.
- Freshness
- No post dateSME Careers doesn't publish post dates. First seen Oct 28, 2026; still listed Nov 6, 2026.
- Where you live
- Named countries onlyOpen in United States.
The job description
In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Legal & Compliance Subject Matter Expert (SME) to create challenging professional questions, evaluate AI-generated legal and regulatory content, and design high-quality rubrics defining what a complete, well-reasoned, and professionally appropriate response should contain.
You will develop tasks involving legal analysis, regulatory interpretation, compliance, issue spotting, risk assessment, policy interpretation, contracts, privacy, financial regulation, employment matters, corporate compliance, or related fields depending on your specialization.
You will evaluate whether AI-generated responses identify relevant issues, apply appropriate rules or standards, recognize exceptions, distinguish facts from assumptions, address relevant risks, and avoid unsupported conclusions.
A major component of this role is rubric writing and evaluation design. You will translate nuanced legal or regulatory judgment into structured criteria covering issue identification, applicable standards, analysis quality, completeness, exceptions, jurisdictional considerations, risk, and professional reasoning.
This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your expertise directly helps improve the world’s premier AI models by making their legal and compliance outputs more accurate, rigorous, and professionally reliable.
Responsibilities
- Create legal and compliance tasks: Develop realistic, difficult scenarios requiring expert analysis and professional judgment.
- Design detailed rubrics: Define relevant issues, rules, standards, analytical steps, exceptions, risks, and critical errors.
- Evaluate AI-generated analysis: Assess responses for accuracy, completeness, reasoning quality, relevance, and professional rigor.
- Review issue spotting: Determine whether the model identifies the material legal or regulatory considerations.
- Assess reasoning quality: Identify unsupported conclusions, incorrect application of rules, missing exceptions, and faulty assumptions.
- Critique peer rubrics: Review rubrics for missing issues, ambiguity, redundancy, excessive subjectivity, or inaccurate legal expectations.
- Develop reference content: Create high-quality analyses, answer frameworks, critiques, and gold-standard examples.
- Support AI training: Produce questions, rubrics, evaluations, preference data, and reference-answer pairs for RL and SFT workflows.
- Maintain professional quality: Ensure content appropriately distinguishes factual analysis, legal interpretation, professional judgment, and uncertainty.
Requirements
- JD, LLB, LLM, law degree, compliance qualification, or equivalent professional background relevant to the stated specialty.
- Professional legal qualification or bar admission is strongly preferred for attorney-focused roles.
- Strong professional proficiency in English, minimum C1.
- 3+ years of professional experience in law, regulatory compliance, legal research, policy, risk, privacy, financial compliance, contracts, or a related field.
- Demonstrated expertise in a clearly defined legal, regulatory, or compliance domain.
- Ability to create challenging professional scenarios requiring issue spotting, interpretation, analysis, and judgment.
- Strong ability to design rubrics defining required issues, applicable standards, reasoning steps, relevant exceptions, risks, and critical omissions.
- Ability to distinguish between legitimate alternative legal interpretations and objectively deficient analysis.
- Comfortable reviewing and critiquing rubrics developed by other legal or compliance experts.
- Strong attention to detail when evaluating terminology, factual assumptions, jurisdiction, authority, exceptions, materiality, and conclusions.
- Experience with legal education, examination writing, peer review, legal editing, quality assurance, policy drafting, compliance testing, or supervisory review is strongly preferred.
- Prior experience with AI evaluation, legal AI, data annotation, RLHF, model benchmarking, or rubric-based scoring is preferred.
How do you apply to SME Careers?
Apply on SME Careers
The Apply button opens this post on SME Careers's own site. You apply with them, not with Rubric. Budget about 30 min: profile + 15-min AI interview.
Get through screening
What SME Careers asks for after you apply:
- Do the ~15-minute English AI video interview on a desktop (up to 3 attempts)
- Take any written or video qualification exam
- Sign the Deel contract and join Discord
- Wait for a project offer by email
Start work and get paid
Pay schedule: weekly. Paid via Deel. You're paid for the work they hand out, not a fixed salary.
SME Careers also needs
- Credentials in your field
- Desktop with webcam
- Deel account
Red flags
None on record for SME Careers. A real platform never asks you to pay for training, equipment or a "starter kit".
What is SME Careers like to work for?
SuperAnnotate's expert-hiring site, which places credentialed specialists on hourly AI training contracts paid through Deel.
| Advertised pay | $20–130/hr |
|---|---|
| Getting in | Some screening |
| Application takes | ~30 min: profile + 15-min AI interview |
| How you get paid | Weekly, via Deel |
| Payout record | Pays on time |
| Countries | Hires in nearly 90 countries, including India, Nigeria, Kenya, Pakistan and the Philippines; sanctioned countries are excluded and some projects set region or language rules. |
Listings show only an 'up to' rate: about $20/hr for generalists, $60/hr software, $90/hr healthcare and $110/hr legal; your actual rate depends on credentials and location.