Principal, Legal AI Engineering

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.

Why This Role Matters

What You'll Do

How Success Will Be Measured

• AI capabilities shipped that Legal teams actually use and rely on, not pilots that gather dust
• Speed and rigor of experimentation: how quickly and reliably you move from idea to evaluated prototype
• Categories of legal work meaningfully shifted from "humans only" to "AI-with-humans" or, where evidence supports it, AI-first with human audit”
• Adoption across Match Group Legal teams and brands
• Sustained quality: tools stay current, maintained, and performing as models and the legal landscape change
• Better use of Legal's attention: more attorney time on novel, high-judgment work, not just more output

Who You Are

Qualifications

• 4+ years building, deploying, or applying AI products and tools at an AI-forward tech company, a startup, a law firm innovation team, or in-house, and 2+ years building hands-on with LLMs.
• Hands-on experience with prompting, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, and the basics of fine-tuning or model selection
• Strong technical fluency: building working systems yourself (in code or with AI coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor), working with APIs and data, and reasoning about integrations, permissions, and guardrails
• A track record of shipping to real users, learning from how they use it, and iterating
• Excellent communication across legal, technical, and business audiences. You're a teacher who can bridge technical and plain language.
• Experience building AI products in regulated, compliance-sensitive, or high-stakes domains (legal, healthcare, financial services, trust & safety)
• Experience as a legal engineer, legal AI engineer, legal solutions architect, legal technologist, or applied AI engineer at a law firm, tech company, or AI lab
• Experience building something new within a defined team, measuring it rigorously, and making the case for broader rollout
• Experience supporting multiple business units or brands with shared tooling

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Why Match Group?

Our mission is simple – to help people find love and happiness! We love our employees too and understand the importance of all life's milestones. Here are some of the benefits we are proud to offer:

Mind & Body

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Medical, mental health, and wellness benefits to support your overall health and well-being

Financial Wellness

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Competitive compensation, 100% employer match on 401k contributions up to 10% (cap at $10,000), as well as an employee stock purchase program to help you feel supported in your financial security

Unplug

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Generous PTO and 14 paid holidays so you can unplug

Career 

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Annual training allowance for professional development and ERG membership opportunities and events so you feel connected and empowered in your work

Family

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Families come in all shapes and sizes so we offer 20 weeks of 100% paid parental leave, fertility, adoption, and child care resources, as well as pet insurance and discounts

Company Gatherings

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We host company events where our employees get to know each other and build a sense of connection and belonging!

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we value the rich dynamics that diversity brings to our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, age, sexual orientation, sex (including pregnancy and sexual harassment), gender identity or expression, uniformed service or veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.  Period. 

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the hiring process — such as during pre-employment testing or interviews — please indicate this by selecting “Yes” in the accommodation request field. We’ll reach out to discuss your needs if you're selected for the interview stage.   

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Compensation: USD 150,000 – 220,000 per year salary