Legal Engineer - Product and Applied AI Knowledge
Software Engineering, Product, Legal, Data Science · Full-time
London, UK
About Us
Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar.
Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes.
2,100+ customers across 80+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $200M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI, Graceview, Cadastral, and Wexler.
We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.
Joining Legora means three things.
We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions.
We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback.
We grow together: as a team and with our customers.
Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts.
If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.
What you will do
Bring your experience as a lawyer into the development and launch of legal AI products. In Legora's Product & Applied AI Knowledge team, you'll work with Product, Engineering and Product Marketing on new capabilities before they reach customers. You'll help shape how those capabilities work in legal practice, identify their most useful applications, and help colleagues and customers understand their value.
This role offers a way to broaden a career in legal practice into product and product marketing while developing practical technical expertise. You'll stay close to a capability from early experimentation through launch: learning what it can do, contributing to how it is explained, and building the workflows and demonstrations that bring it to life. Your legal judgement will inform each stage.
Specifically you will
Bring the lawyer's perspective into product development. Identify user needs, try upcoming capabilities against realistic legal work, and give Product and Engineering clear feedback on usefulness, usability and limitations, including legal terminology and in-app copy.
Act as a Legal Engineering launch champion for agreed releases. Work with Product Marketing on use cases, launch copy and explanations of customer value, grounding product claims in what you have seen work. PMM owns positioning and launch planning; you contribute legal and product expertise.
Build demos for launches, webinars and flagship events, including those delivered by our CEO and leadership team. Develop the story, sample documents, workflows and scripts, then rehearse them and prepare reliable fallbacks.
Develop hands-on expertise in prompting, skills and AI workflows. Experiment with ways to solve legal problems and turn useful approaches into examples that others can apply.
Help own and maintain the shared Skills Library. Build, review and improve priority skills with specialist Legal Engineers, keeping their scope, legal quality and usability clear as the product evolves.
Work with Engineering on representative legal examples and focused evaluations for upcoming releases. Help define what a good result looks like, investigate failures and use the findings to improve the product and its guidance.
Turn product knowledge into reusable guides, demos and practical training for Legal Engineers and the wider business. Contribute accurate materials for Enablement to distribute and maintain, and help colleagues use new capabilities confidently.
Build connections across Legal Engineering, Product and Engineering. Bring in specialist expertise from different offices and practice areas, share useful work, and help joint workshops or hackathons produce practical follow-through.
Spend approximately 30% of your time on selected client work, such as new-feature pilots and complex implementations. Use that contact to understand what lawyers need and bring those insights back into product, launch and skills work.
What you bring
You may be a lawyer in private practice or in-house who enjoys improving how work gets done, explaining complex ideas and experimenting with technology. You want to understand both how a product works and why a lawyer would choose to use it. We welcome candidates moving directly from legal practice: curiosity, judgement and clear communication matter, alongside a willingness to build your technical knowledge.
We are looking for
A qualified lawyer with solid practice experience, or equivalent substantive legal experience. You can recognise the practical demands of legal work and know when to bring in a specialist from another practice area or jurisdiction.
Product judgement: the ability to start with a user's problem, identify a useful workflow and explain what would make it easier, clearer or more valuable.
Strong writing and communication. You can make a complex capability understandable, develop a convincing demonstration and adapt your explanation for lawyers, engineers or commercial colleagues.
Practical curiosity about AI. You have experimented with AI tools, can discuss what worked and what did not, and want to develop your prompting, workflow design and understanding of model behaviour.
Care with evidence and detail. You check legal outputs against their sources, recognise limitations and avoid overstating what a product can do.
Collaborative ownership. You ask useful questions, seek feedback and carry work through to completion, while managing priorities across teams and changing launch timelines.
Useful additional experience
Building skills, workflows or automations in an AI platform, or using code or scripting to solve practical problems. Coding is useful but is not a requirement.
Creating demos, training, articles or other materials that help people understand and use a new idea or tool.
Contributing to a product pilot, launch, innovation project or collaboration with technology and marketing teams. Previous product or product marketing job titles are not required.
Where this role can go
You'll build on your legal experience with skills in understanding user needs, shaping product feedback, explaining customer value and preparing launches. Alongside that, you'll develop technical fluency in applied AI and continue learning from client work. You'll have tangible work to point to: a workflow improved, a launch supported, a demo delivered or a skill others rely on.
That experience can support a broader career in Legal Engineering, product, product marketing or applied AI. Over time, there may be opportunities to take on greater responsibility for a product area, launch programme or specialist practice. Progression will depend on your strengths, performance and business needs.
Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.