Senior AI & Automation Engineer for Legal Practice

Mishcon de Reya LLP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Mishcon de Reya LLP seeks an Automation & AI Engineer to translate the AI and innovation roadmap into practical, secure services. You will lead senior technical work across legal practice and business operations, building AI-enabled workflows and integrations with a focus on reliability and governance.

You will collaborate with Product, Data, Security, and Architecture teams, set engineering standards, review designs, and mentor peers while balancing performance and cost in complex environments.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with emphasis on clean code and secure development.
• Experience designing production APIs and cloud-native integrations.
• Proven ability to move from unclear problems to working prototypes using evidence and user feedback.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and build of AI-enabled automated workflows across legal practice and operations.
• Translate roadmap priorities into technical plans, prototypes, and delivery plans.
• Set standards for Python/TypeScript development, APIs, testing, source control, CI/CD, observability and runbooks.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

APIs

Cloud services

LLM applications

Technical leadership

Tools

Azure

Git

CI/CD

Monitoring/Observability

Job description

Mishcon de Reya LLP seeks an Automation & AI Engineer to translate the AI and innovation roadmap into practical, secure services. You will lead senior technical work across legal practice and business operations, building AI-enabled workflows and integrations with a focus on reliability and governance.

You will collaborate with Product, Data, Security, and Architecture teams, set engineering standards, review designs, and mentor peers while balancing performance and cost in complex environments.