Microsoft will pay up to $279K for a lawyer who can build AI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images Microsoft is hiring a legal engineer — a role that blends legal experience and technical skills. The hire will help shape how Microsoft's commercial lawyers use artificial intelligence. The legal engineer has also become a must-have role for startups competing to serve large law firms. Microsoft appears to want to put its legal department on AI steroids. The company is seeking a principal legal engineer to help shape…