Legal Engineer

Laine Neural Network SA; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Laine Neural Network SA in Austin, TX seeks a Legal Engineer to join the Commercial Team. You will collaborate with sales, help onboard firms, and translate legal practice into product direction to drive US growth.

Requirements include a JD or equivalent and admission to practice, with at least one year of law firm or in-house experience. Strong communication, AI fluency, and startup adaptability are essential.

Qualifications

• A law degree (J.D. or equivalent) and admission to practice — this is required.
• Real practice experience at a law firm or in-house legal team — at least a year.
• Genuine excitement about moving from practicing law to transforming how law is practiced.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with senior legal audiences.
• AI obsession and fluency: you already use AI as a force multiplier in your own legal work.
• Comfort with ambiguity and building at an early stage; proactive role definition.
• Team player across sales, client success, and product; cross-functional collaboration.
• Bonus: experience with legal technology, legal operations, or knowledge management.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the legal authority across the U.S. go-to-market motion with partners and counsels.
• Lead onboarding: align firm standards, map Laine to practice areas, and onboard attorneys.
• Support client success post-acquisition, guiding adoption across documents and workflows.
• Translate client feedback into product direction with engineering and the legal team.
• Assist marketing, enablement, and sales training to speak industry language.

Skills

Legal expertise

Client communication

AI fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Business acumen

Education

J.D. or equivalent

US bar admission

Job description

Role Details: Legal Engineer
Location: Austin, TX (strongly preferred)

Laine is building its U.S. commercial hub in Austin, and we want this role at the center of it. Candidates
based in, or willing to relocate to, Austin, TX are strongly preferred. Exceptional candidates elsewhere in the United States will be considered and should be comfortable working across U.S. time zones as needed.
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

Job Type: Full Time
Team: Commercial Team

Why Laine

Join us at Laine, where we’re on a mission to make expert-quality legal work accessible to every law firm and legal team. Laine is legal software built by attorneys — decades of legal methodology, built into the product — so lawyers produce partner-level drafting, review, and analysis without changing the way they work.

Legal AI will be one of the defining categories of this decade, and the companies that win it are being
decided right now. We launched in Switzerland in 2026, and we’re now building our U.S. business from
Austin. You’d be joining the commercial team at the heart of that expansion — early enough that your work
shapes how we grow, who we reach, and how we win.

If you push for excellence and want to help build something genuinely new in legal technology, we invite
you to build with us. At Laine, the future of legal work is being written today — and we’re just getting
started.

Role Overview

As Legal Engineer at Laine, you will be the practicing lawyer inside our go-to-market team — the person in the room who has lived the work our clients live every day. Laine was built by lawyers encoding decades of methodology into software, and this role carries that credibility into every client conversation in the U.S. market. Make no mistake: this is a revenue role with an acquisition mandate — you are part of the sales process, and your success is measured in the firms that choose Laine and adopt it deeply. You will sit alongside sales in demos and pilots, guide new firms through onboarding, support client success on the legal substance of adoption, and translate what you hear from attorneys into concrete product direction. When a skeptical partner asks whether Laine truly understands their practice, you are the answer.

What you’ll do

• Serve as the legal authority across the U.S. go-to-market motion, joining sales conversations, demos, pilots, and evaluations to speak lawyer-to-lawyer with partners and general counsels
• Lead the legal substance of client onboarding: configuring playbooks around a firm’s standards,
  mapping Laine to their practice areas, and showing attorneys how their methodology lives inside the product
• Support client success post-acquisition, helping firms deepen adoption across document types, practice groups, and workflows
  Stress-test the product the way a practicing lawyer would — drafting, reviewing, and negotiating real matters — and turn what you find into concrete recommendations for the product team
• Translate client feedback into product evolution, working directly with engineering and the lawyer
  team on what U.S. practice demands
• Help legal professionals navigate what AI means for their practice with the empathy of someone who has done the work at 10 PM themselves
• Contribute legal insight to marketing, enablement, and sales training, so the entire commercial team sounds like the industry rather than a vendor
• Help define the Legal Engineer function in the U.S. as an early member of the team

What you have

• A law degree (J.D. or equivalent) and admission to practice — this is required
• Real practice experience at a law firm or in-house legal team — at least a year, with transactional,
  corporate, or contracts-heavy work preferred — this is required
• Genuine excitement about moving from practicing law to transforming how law is practiced
• Strong communication and presentation skills with senior legal audiences: you are credible with a managing partner and comfortable in a commercial conversation
• AI obsession and fluency: you already use AI as a force multiplier in your own legal work, and you carry informed conviction about where it belongs in practice
• Comfort with ambiguity and building at an early stage, where your job is to define the role, not follow a script
• Team player who moves fluidly between sales, client success, and product, and raises the quality of each
• Bonus: experience with legal technology, legal operations, or knowledge management inside a firm

If your experience doesn’t precisely match this description but you believe you would excel in the role, we encourage you to apply.

How we work

These traits run through everyone on this team. You don’t need to arrive polished, but you’ll do your best
work here if they sound like you:

• Seek the uncomfortable — growth lives outside the comfort zone, and we go there on purpose
• Challenge and be challenged — the best idea wins, no matter whose it is
• Accountability with vulnerability — own the outcome, and be honest about what you don’t know
• Play for each other — we win as a team or not at all
• Excellence in everything — quality is the brand, down to the smallest detail

Compensation

The annualized base salary range for this role is $110,000–$165,000, plus performance-based incentives. The final offer will be based on experience, qualifications, and overall fit for the role.

About Laine

Legal AI that holds itself to the standards of the profession. Laine combines frontier AI with methodology built by practicing attorneys, giving law firms and in-house legal teams expert-quality drafting, review, and analysis — without the complexity that keeps most legal AI from being used. We are a rapidly growing, global team that cares about the quality of its work down to the last detail, and Austin is where we’re building the U.S. business side by side.

Laine is an equal opportunity employer. Laine is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

Laine is legal AI built to the standards of the profession. Draft, review, and negotiate any legal document, from first brief to final signature.

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