Legal Engineer - Applied AI Knowledge

Job summary

Responsibilities

Legal AI is inventing its best practices in real time, and this role sits where that happens. You'll sit within the Legal Engineering team and work hand in hand with Product at one of the fastest-growing legal AI companies in the world, seeing new capabilities before almost anyone else…

• Vet the Skills Library and Legal Engineering outputs against the quality bar: review skills, workflows and use cases hands-on before they go live, and quality-control…
• Research and experiment with prompting techniques, skill patterns and emerging AI methods, and turn what works into best practices the whole function adopts.
• Author the reference use cases that show what great looks like, published as the exemplars others copy.
• Work closely with the Product team on up-and-coming capabilities: early hands-on testing, the first best practices for new features, and structured feedback from real use.
• Produce materials that would support the technical onboarding and training for new Legal Engineers in your region, such as best practices to create use cases etc.

What they're looking for

• A qualified lawyer with solid practice experience at a leading firm or in-house team, or equivalent: enough substantive judgement to vet outputs across practice areas.
• Real technical prowess: comfortable with code or scripting (a bootcamp or self-taught background counts entirely), and fluent in the mechanics of how AI tools actually behave.
• A heavy, habitual user of AI, ideally legal AI, with sharp prompt and use case discernment: able to rank a strong prompt against a mediocre one, articulate exactly why, and…
• Visible pride in the craft of prompting and use case design: someone who wants to be the reference point for what good looks like.
• Rigour in review: line-by-line verification against source, and the judgement to know exactly when not to use AI.