Legal Engineer (USA)

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 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

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.