Legal AI Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Telford; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing Legal Tech scale-up seeks a Legal AI Engineer to develop innovative AI features at the intersection of law and machine learning. You will design models for legal texts, collaborate with experts, and ensure compliance while employing advanced NLP techniques to address real legal challenges.

Qualifications

• Solid experience with Python and ML/NLP libraries.
• Experience building NLP or document analysis solutions.
• Strong understanding of legal language and structures.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI models tailored to legal text.
• Apply NLP techniques to extract structured insights.
• Collaborate with legal SMEs for scalable machine learning solutions.

Skills

Python

Machine Learning

Natural Language Processing

Legal Language Understanding

Tools

spaCy

Hugging Face

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Kira

Luminance

Relativity

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Location: United Kingdom - Remote with London offices

Type: Full-time | Permanent

Salary: Up to £100,000

About Us

A fast-growing Legal Tech scale-up are on a mission to transform the way legal teams work through cutting-edge AI. Their platform helps law firms and in-house counsel automate legal workflows, extract insights from contracts, and ensure compliance more efficiently and effectively. By leveraging Agentic Generative AI they offer real-time analysis on an unprecedented scale to empower legal professionals with autonomous planning, complex reasoning, and proactive decision-making across core legal use cases.

The Role

We’re looking for a Legal AI Engineer who’s passionate about building intelligent systems at the intersection of law and machine learning. You’ll work closely with legal experts, data scientists, and product managers to develop AI features that tackle real legal challenges through the use of agentic GenAI.

As Legal AI Engineer you will:

• Design and implement AI models tailored to legal text and documents (e.g., contracts, case law, regulations).
• Apply NLP techniques to extract structured insights from unstructured legal data.
• Collaborate with legal SMEs to translate domain knowledge into scalable machine learning solutions.
• Continuously evaluate model performance, ensuring accuracy, fairness, and compliance.
• Help shape the data pipeline and MLOps practices for handling sensitive legal content securely.

Required Experience:

• Solid experience with Python and ML/NLP libraries (e.g., spaCy, Hugging Face, TensorFlow/PyTorch).
• Experience building NLP or document analysis solutions, ideally for legal or compliance use cases.
• Strong understanding of legal language, structures, and workflows (e.g., contracts, clauses, case law).
• Knowledge of LLMs and prompt engineering.
• Bonus: Familiarity with legal tech tools or platforms (e.g., Kira, Luminance, Relativity).

This is an excellent opportunity for a Legal AI Engineer to join a highly renowned Legal Tech Scale-up with ambitions to cement their spot as a leader in Corporate Legal CLM Software.

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Created on 27/06/2025 by JR United Kingdom