Legal Engineer, Toronto

Harvey Harvey · AI Frontier · Toronto, ON · Go to Market

This role focuses on bridging legal domain expertise with AI product development, acting as a liaison between customers, sales, and engineering to refine AI solutions for legal workflows. The Legal Engineer will translate customer needs and legal insights into product direction, build demonstrations, and ensure the AI product evolves to meet user trust and adoption.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work directly with lawyers at current and prospective customers to uncover workflow pain points, recommend solutions, and show how Harvey fits into real legal work.
  2. Serve as the voice of the customer, translating feedback and legal workflow insights into concrete, lawyer-ready product direction.
  3. Partner closely with product, engineering, sales, and marketing to shape Harvey’s roadmap and ensure the product evolves in ways lawyers trust and adopt.
  4. Build and refine product demonstrations, workflows, and use cases that reflect how legal teams actually work, including how AI is changing that work.
  5. Introduce new capabilities in a way that’s tailored, credible, and compelling for each customer, continuously raising the bar for how Harvey is deployed.

Skills

Required

  • Canadian practicing certificate (or equivalent common-law qualification) with 3+ years’ experience as a qualified lawyer, including meaningful in-house experience at a corporation or financial institution (with prior top-tier law firm experience strongly preferred).
  • Strong background as a corporate attorney, with hands-on experience advising on corporate, commercial, and/or regulatory matters within an in-house legal team.
  • Deep understanding of corporate legal workflows (e.g., commercial contracting, governance, compliance, or transactions) and curiosity about how AI can reshape them.
  • Proven ability to navigate business-oriented legal environments, balancing legal risk with practical commercial outcomes.
  • Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment and make confident, well-reasoned recommendations in fast-paced, ambiguous settings.
  • Ability to operate seamlessly across legal, product, and sales contexts—translating between stakeholders with clarity and precision.
  • Executive presence and strong relationship-building skills, with experience engaging business stakeholders, senior leadership, and cross-functional partners.

Nice to have

  • customer-facing or business development experience is a plus
  • Experience working cross-functionally with product, sales, or business teams in an in-house setting

What the JD emphasized

  • frontier agentic AI
  • AI's potential to transform legal work
  • AI is changing that work