Legal Engineer Associate

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · New York, NY · Growth

This role is for a Legal Engineer Associate at Legora, an AI-native legal tech company. The role involves supporting client-facing pilots, designing and evaluating AI use cases for legal tasks, gathering user feedback for product improvements, and documenting best practices for deploying legal AI at scale. The ideal candidate has an interest in law and technology, is tech-curious with some experience in prompt engineering, and is a strong communicator.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support client facing pilots, onboarding, and training, helping legal teams get the most out of Legora.
  2. Design and evaluate use cases that showcase our AI on real legal tasks like contract review, research, and drafting.
  3. Capture insights from users and translate them into clear, actionable feedback for product improvements.
  4. Document best practices and contribute to internal playbooks for how legal AI can be deployed at scale.

Skills

Required

  • Exposure to and Interest in Law (J.D. preferred)
  • 0-2 years of experience
  • Tech curious
  • Eager to engage with AI, product features, and workflow automation
  • Not afraid to experiment with prompt engineering
  • Strong communicator
  • Analytical and detail-oriented
  • Adaptable and proactive

Nice to have

  • Legal or legal innovation work experience (e.g., paralegal, clerk, etc.)

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native workspace
  • AI transforming the legal industry
  • AI on real legal tasks
  • how legal AI can be deployed at scale