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Legal Engineer at VC-backed legal tech startup
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Compensation
- £40k-£60k
Join a high-growth, VC-backed legal tech startup that is fundamentally redefining how law is practiced through AI. As a Legal Engineer, you will work alongside elite lawyers and advanced AI agents to execute complex legal matters with unprecedented speed and precision.
We are looking for high-throughput operators from tech backgrounds—no law degree required—who want to move fast, own their results, and scale with a company that values output over hours. This is your chance to be at the forefront of the AI legal revolution in London, optimizing workflows and improving systems in a truly performance-driven culture.
Role overview
As a Legal Engineer, you will work at the intersection of law and technology, executing legal matters end-to-end alongside senior lawyers and AI agents. You will drive high-throughput operations, ensuring legal tasks are completed with speed and precision. This role prioritizes output over tenure, allowing for rapid career growth within a fast-moving, AI-native environment.
About the company
VC-backed legal tech startup
What you will do
- Execute legal matters end-to-end, including due diligence reviews, contract analysis, and ancillary document preparation using AI agents.
- Manage and optimize the interaction between senior lawyer playbooks and AI outputs to ensure consistent quality and throughput.
- Track performance metrics like error rates and speed, continuously improving playbooks to drive more efficient, clean work products.
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses 1-2 years of experience in high-throughput operational or GTM roles such as Sales Operations, Solutions Engineering, or Strategy.
- A systems-oriented thinker who can identify bottlenecks in complex workflows and implement precise, scalable fixes without drift.
- Highly comfortable leveraging AI tools daily as teammates to optimize productivity, ideally with a background in fast-paced startup environments.
Why this role is remarkable
- Work at a pioneer AI-native firm founded by elite lawyers from top-tier global practices and seasoned tech engineers.
- The company is backed by top-tier VCs and is rapidly scaling its fundamentally different approach to the legal industry.
- Experience a high-performance culture where the ceiling is determined by your output and ability to scale with the business.
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