Legal Engineer

Jobtailor; Milano; In loco; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Jobtailor in Milan seeks a proactive Legal Engineer to join the product team. You will shape new features, test and validate outputs with a focus on accuracy and real-world usefulness for legal AI tools.

You will own processes to keep legal data up-to-date as laws evolve, translate needs to technical specs, and work with lawyers, data annotators, and engineers to build robust validation mechanisms and datasets.

Competenze

• Italian law degree and bar eligibility.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication between legal and technical teams.

Mansioni

• Shape new features with the product team, applying legal judgment to ensure outputs are accurate and practically useful.
• Establish and own processes to keep the legal data updated as laws evolve.
• Translate legal needs into actionable inputs for product and tech teams.
• Collaborate with data annotators and AI engineers to build high-quality datasets for validation and training.
• Improve AI system capabilities for analyzing legal requests and producing structured outputs.
• Identify strategic partnerships to enhance data quality and coverage.

Conoscenze

Civil law

Legal analysis

Legal-technical liaison

Communication

Formazione

Italian law degree

Descrizione del lavoro

Responsibilities

• Be part of the product team and act as the first expert to shape new features, test and validate the product, applying your legal judgment to verify outputs for accuracy, consistency, and real-world usefulness.
• Establish and own the processes that keep the database always updated, relevant, and internally consistent as laws, case law, and regulations evolve.
• Be the voice of the user: collect and synthesize feedback from practicing lawyers and translate it into actionable input that steers product development in the right direction.
• Collaborate with data annotators and AI Engineers to define and create high-quality validation and training datasets for our AI algorithms, bridging legal substance and technical execution.
• Propose and elaborate with AI Engineers the mechanisms to improve the AI system capability to analyse a legal request and produce a structured output.
• Analyse strategic partnership to enhance the data included in the product and its features.
• Work closely with partners and law firms to define data acquisition priorities and identify the most relevant and authoritative sources for each practice area.
• Take ownership of legal domains (e.g. civil, commercial, labour, privacy, banking), becoming the internal subject‑matter reference and setting the quality standard for that area.
• Set the tone for the team: as one of the first hires in this function, you'll shape how we work, define best practices, and grow and scale with the company while leading by example.

Requirements

• Italian law degree.
• 2–3 years of experience as a practicing lawyer, preferably in civil law.
• A genuine desire to pursue an alternative and challenging career path outside traditional practice, in a fast-growing, high-ownership environment.
• Strong analytical rigor and attention to detail.
• Outstanding problem‑solving skills.
• Clear communicator, comfortable acting as a "translator" between legal requirements and technical teams.
• Curiosity about AI and legal technology, and the drive to learn how LLMs and legal data work together (no prior technical/AI experience required).
• Strong plus: experience in Legal Engineering, Product or Program Management; masters in Law & Tech.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Italian law with a focus on civil law, while effectively bridging legal and technical domains to enhance product development. Possesses strong analytical skills and a commitment to maintaining high‑quality legal standards in a fast‑paced environment.