Legal Engineer

How you’ll make an impact

This is a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of legal tech innovation, influencing the future of how legal work gets done. As a Legal Engineer, you will work closely with the Product team to translate how lawyers think into AI driven insights. You will combine strong commercial contract acumen with a curiosity for AI to bridge the intersection of law, product and technology.

What you’ll do…

• Collaborate closely with Product and Design to identify high value opportunities and use cases to save in-house legal time and effort through AI assisted workflows and AI driven insights.
• Translate legal reasoning and subject matter expertise into structured product requirements and prompts.
• Partner with engineering to design, test and improve AI extraction schemas, normalisation models and workflows.
• Partner with engineering to define frameworks that evaluate legal accuracy and risk in model outputs.
• Continuously improve legal accuracy through prompt tuning.

What success looks like...

• LawVu’s Workspace Intelligence products reflect real-world legal reasoning with accurate insights that in-house legal deeply trust.
• LawVu’s AI powered workflows are aligned with how in house legal work, with appropriate human in the loop safeguards to minimise risk, whilst delivering measurable reductions in manual effort required by our customers.
• The Product team operate with a shared understanding of how legal work happens in practice, and deeper appreciation of legal nuance, enabling faster time to value.

What you'll need:

• Qualified lawyer with 5+ years commercial contract experience (ideally in house).
• Deep understanding of contract obligations and risk.
• Experience completing contract analysis at scale.
• Deep systems thinker.
• Curious about AI, and willing to work closely with product AI systems. Prior experience with prompt engineering, data modelling or evaluation frameworks is a bonus.
• Familiarity with the legal tech landscape, and contract lifecycle management.
• Excellent ability to distil legal nuance and complex concepts into plain language and actionable recommendations.
• Bias for pragmatism and progress over perfection and a willingness to experiment and learn fast.
• Experience with legal tech, CLM systems or AI assisted contract analysis.
• Willing to work in a dynamic fast-paced, scale-up environment.

Reports to

Senior Product Manager, Workspace Intelligence

Location

NZ (Wellington or Tauranga preferred, remote will be considered for the right person)

What sets us apart:

• Monthly wellness allowance to use on whatever enables you to bring your whole self to work - gym membership, massage, childcare.. the list goes on!
• Health insurance cover.
• Extended paid parental leave.
• Extra paid day off on your birthday.
• Share options so you can have a piece of the pie.
• Home office allowance set up for remote employees.

Why LawVu?

At LawVu we support many types of flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance your work, your life and your passions. We offer the opportunity to get onboard a growth company early and the opportunity to participate in LawVu’s success through our incentive scheme. LawVu has rapidly expanding offices and our work environment encourages continuous improvement and future career development.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables us to better understand and serve customers and innovate successfully. From the moment you join, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

Our team is only as strong as the culture it is built upon. Our core values are:

• Inspire and Delight: We take pride in what we do and go the extra mile to create experiences that inspire and delight our customers.
• Move Swiftly: We do what we say we will do, moving fast to get the right things done to make an impact.
• Dig Deeper: No challenge is too big. With courage we embrace the challenge, learn from our mistakes and share the knowledge.
• Take Ownership: With every decision and behaviour, however big or small, we take ownership of it's impact on our business.
• Back yourself. Back others: We strive to be supportive, honest people who respect each other and build a high level of trust to perform as a winning team.
• Bring your Woo: Woo is what energises us, brings us joy and makes us unique. We seek to create a safe environment that fosters bringing your whole self so you can thrive.

Key skills/competency

• Legal Tech Innovation
• Commercial Contracts
• AI-driven Insights
• Contract Analysis at Scale
• Prompt Engineering
• Data Modelling
• Legal Reasoning Translation
• Workflow Automation
• Risk Minimisation
• Product Development Collaboration