Legal Engineer — AI-Powered GTM & Onboarding Lead

Laine; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Laine seeks a Legal Engineer in Austin to serve as the practicing lawyer inside the go-to-market team. This revenue-oriented role sits with sales demos, onboarding, and client success, translating attorneys' workflows into product direction.

You will draft, review, and negotiate real matters to stress-test the product, align with engineering on U.S. practice needs, and help define the Legal Engineer function as an early team member.

Qualifications

• A law degree and admission to practice are required.
• At least 1 year of practice at a law firm or in-house legal team.
• 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.
• Team player who moves between sales, client success, and product.
• Bonus: experience with legal technology, legal operations, or knowledge management inside a firm.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Strong communication

Presentation skills

AI fluency

Adaptability

Team player

Education

J.D. or equivalent

Job description

Laine seeks a Legal Engineer in Austin to serve as the practicing lawyer inside the go-to-market team. This revenue-oriented role sits with sales demos, onboarding, and client success, translating attorneys' workflows into product direction.

You will draft, review, and negotiate real matters to stress-test the product, align with engineering on U.S. practice needs, and help define the Legal Engineer function as an early team member.