Fund Formation Legal Architect

Perry AI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Perry in London is seeking a hands-on Legal Engineer to join the founding team and define the ground truth for our platform. This role focuses on turning private capital fund documents into structured extraction rules, rubrics, and evaluation sets, working closely with product and engineering.

You are a qualified private capital lawyer, precise, able to articulate why clauses mean what they mean, and eager to build taxonomy and standardised workflows in a fast‑growing startup environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with meaningful private capital experience.
• Precise to a fault; able to articulate why a clause means what it means and apply the same standard twice.
• Comfortable moving between messy real‑world drafting and clean, rules‑based taxonomy.
• Clear written reasoner; can document a call so someone else can follow it.
• Genuinely interested in AI and in how legal work can be systematised, not just automated.
• Happy in an early‑stage environment where the process doesn’t exist yet and you build it.

Responsibilities

• Own the ground truth: create, review, and validate gold‑standard answer sets and annotations across fund formation and transactions.
• Build product Q&A eval sets: define questions, correct answers, and sources for measuring accuracy.
• Set the standard: build rubrics and guidelines; adjudicate edge cases and document reasoning.
• Pressure‑test the model: run Perry outputs against your analysis; identify and feed back errors before customers see them.
• Translate law into schema: turn fund and deal documents into extraction schemas and prompt designs.
• Develop jurisdiction standards (e.g. BVCA/UK, NVCA/US, ILPA) and flag market practice differences.

Job description

Perry in London is seeking a hands-on Legal Engineer to join the founding team and define the ground truth for our platform. This role focuses on turning private capital fund documents into structured extraction rules, rubrics, and evaluation sets, working closely with product and engineering.

You are a qualified private capital lawyer, precise, able to articulate why clauses mean what they mean, and eager to build taxonomy and standardised workflows in a fast‑growing startup environment.