Principal, Legal AI Engineering

Match Group is hiring a Principal, Legal AI Engineering. It pays $150k-$220k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this AI engineer role is Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
The posting mentions AI agents, LLMs and applied AI among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
Match Group has 65 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Principal of Legal AI Engineering to prototype and ship AI tools and agents automating complex legal workflows.

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Know where you belong!

Match Group is a leading provider of dating products across the globe. Our portfolio includes Tinder, Hinge, Match, Meetic, PlentyOfFish, OkCupid, The League, HER, and others, each designed to spark meaningful connections for singles worldwide. Creating a sense of belonging doesn’t stop at our products - it’s the foundation of every team we hire.
When it comes to dating, the connection starts online, but the real magic happens once you meet in real life (IRL). We think the same is true for creating the best platforms, so we work together IRL 3 days/week.

The Role

Match Group runs some of the most-used apps in the world, including Tinder, Hinge, Match, OkCupid, and Plenty of Fish, for tens of millions of people in 170+ countries. That makes our legal work unusually interesting: privacy for some of the most personal data people share, trust and safety at global scale, AI features shipping into consumer products, and regulation that keeps moving.

This role sits at the intersection of legal practice and applied AI, closer to an in-house R&D function than a traditional legal team role. It's for a tech-forward builder, an engineer or product person, who can find where AI can do legal work that humans do today (or work humans can't do at scale), prototype and ship tools and agents to handle it, and iterate with lawyers in the loop until those tools are part of how the function runs.

This is about applying AI to the substance of legal work: the research, analysis, judgment calls, contract review, and regulatory tracking that lawyers do every day. It is not about optimizing existing processes or rolling out off-the-shelf legal tech. You'll build things that didn't exist before, prototype quickly, evaluate rigorously, and ship what works.

You'll serve brands across Match Group's portfolio (Tinder, Hinge, Match, OkCupid, Plenty of Fish, and others) and work with Legal leadership and attorneys as your domain experts and end users. You'll partner with engineering, product, and other technical teams where deeper infrastructure is needed. You'll have a mandate to pick where to start, prove value, and scale what works across brands.

How we rate this

Principal, Legal AI Engineering at Match Group rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.

Key facts

Principal, Legal AI Engineering is an open job at Match Group.
Level rates this role AI Level 4 of 4: Builds AI.
The listed salary is $150k-$220k a year.
The role is based in West Hollywood, California.
The job was posted on June 18, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Match Group. Apply on Match Group

Prepare for this job

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Applied AIPrototypingLegal TechSoftware EngineeringAI agentsLLMs

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Pay

This job starts at: $150k
Typical AI engineer job: $184k

This posting starts 18% below the typical AI engineer job. See AI engineer jobs

Questions you could be asked

Tell me about a project where applied ai was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where prototyping was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where legal tech was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where software engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
Walk me through how you've used AI agents in your day-to-day work.

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List these exact terms on your resume: Applied AI, Prototyping, Legal Tech, Software Engineering, and AI agents. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.

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