Legal Engineer Associate
Legora
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Job Description
About Legora
Legora is on a mission to redefine how legal work gets done. We build solutions with lawyers, ensuring our AI-native workspace truly empowers legal professionals. Our platform helps legal teams work faster, ask better questions, and unlock new insights, pushing the boundaries of legal tech daily to make complex processes smarter, faster, and more human.
We analyze thousands of documents in minutes and design intelligent workflows in collaboration with leading practices. Trusted by global firms like Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Bird & Bird, and Linklaters in over 40 countries, we are committed to rapid shipping, effective iteration, and swift scaling. When you join Legora, you become part of a team that strives for excellence and empowers lawyers with technology that genuinely understands them. If you are excited by building from first principles, working with exceptional people, and accelerating change in a high-stakes, high-impact domain, this is the place for you. We are not just shaping the future of legal tech—we are defining it.
Ready to join us in building the intelligent future of law?
The Role of a Legal Engineer Associate
This is a unique opportunity to operate at the intersection of law, technology, and product. As a Legal Engineer Associate, you will gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI transforming the legal industry while directly contributing to the development, testing, and adoption of our platform.
You will work closely with our Legal Engineers, Customer Success, and Product teams to:
- Support client-facing pilots, onboarding, and training, helping legal teams maximize Legora's potential.
- Design and evaluate use cases showcasing our AI on real legal tasks such as contract review, research, and drafting.
- Capture user insights and translate them into clear, actionable feedback for product improvements.
- Document best practices and contribute to internal playbooks for scalable legal AI deployment.
Who You Are
- Exposure to and Interest in Law: J.D. preferred; some legal or legal innovation work experience (e.g., paralegal, clerk) required.
- Level of Experience: 0-2 years (Trainee/paralegal).
- Tech curious: Eager to engage with AI, product features, and workflow automation; comfortable experimenting with prompt engineering.
- Strong communicator: Capable of clearly and confidently translating between lawyers and technologists.
- Analytical and detail-oriented: Able to evaluate outputs and identify where AI performs well or falls short.
- Adaptable and proactive: Comfortable in a fast-moving environment, bringing structure to ambiguity.
Key skills/competency
- Legal Technology
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Workflow Automation
- Prompt Engineering
- Client Support
- Product Development Feedback
- Contract Review
- Legal Research
- Data Analysis
- Cross-functional Communication
How to Get Hired at Legora
- Research Legora's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Customize your resume: Highlight legal tech, AI exposure, communication skills, and any paralegal or clerk experience for Legora.
- Showcase your tech curiosity: During interviews, articulate your interest in AI, prompt engineering, and workflow automation specific to Legora's platform.
- Prepare use case examples: Be ready to discuss how you'd apply AI to legal tasks like contract review or research, aligning with Legora's product focus.
- Demonstrate adaptability: Share experiences where you brought structure to ambiguous situations in fast-paced environments, relevant to Legora's dynamic work.
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