Legal Workflow Engineer (Zurich or Remote-USA East Coast)

DeepJudge; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a fast-growing startup as a Legal Workflow Engineer, shaping the future of AI in legal work. You will act as the bridge between legal expertise and technology, helping to design and implement innovative solutions that enhance legal workflows while collaborating with diverse teams.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Flexible working arrangements

Ownership of projects from day one

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of legal practice experience.
• Strong understanding of legal workflows in corporate or litigation.

Responsibilities

• Research legal use cases and identify AI workflow opportunities.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams on AI solutions.

Skills

Legal Workflow Expertise

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Curiosity in Legal Technology

Job description

DeepJudge is a fast-growing venture-backed startup at the forefront of applying Artificial Intelligence in the legal domain. Founded by ex-Googlers and ETH PhDs, our mission is to help legal teams harness their collective knowledge so they can focus on the strategic aspects of their work. DeepJudge’s state-of-the-art knowledge retrieval system directs legal professionals to the internal insights that matter most, providing a strong foundation for AI-powered workflows. We’re headquartered in Zurich, with a team in the United States and Canada, and cater to clients all around the world.

We’re a team of professionals who are passionate about their craft with a terrific record of applying technology in research and industry. Apart from that, we are pet lovers, cave researchers, yogis, divers, gamers, and so much more!

We're looking for a thoughtful and pragmatic Legal Workflow Engineer to help shape the future of AI-powered legal work. As a subject matter expert on legal workflows, you will directly contribute to building use cases for various practice areas, and also serve as a resource to our product and engineering teams. Bringing practical insight into how legal professionals work.

This is an exciting opportunity for a lawyer who is passionate about improving how legal work gets done. You are a good fit for this role if you enjoy working with customers as well as internal teams, combining thoughtful research, structured thinking, domain knowledge, and product intuition.

What you’ll be doing

• Serve as a subject matter expert on legal workflows and practice-area-specific processes to act as the bridge between legal expertise and technical teams.
• Research legal use cases and identify high-impact AI workflow opportunities, working directly with clients and internal teams to understand pain points and priorities.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to design, test, and refine AI solutions that are both innovative and practical.
• Contribute to prompt engineering and evaluation strategies for legal-specific tasks.
• Help develop our product roadmap using evidence-based insights and an understanding of how to deliver maximum ROI to our customers.
• Ensure our tools align with how lawyers actually work, supporting project management, knowledge reuse, and client service delivery.
• Act as the bridge between legal expertise and technical teams, ensuring that AI workflows are both technically feasible and legally sound.
• Facilitate discovery sessions and feedback loops with clients to ensure AI solutions address real-world legal challenges.

What we are looking for

• At least 3 years of experience practicing law at a large or mid-sized law firm in the US, CA, UK, Switzerland, or Germany
• Deep understanding of legal workflows across one or more practice groups in corporate and/or litigation
• Experience with legal knowledge management, checklists, and templates, as well as the internal software tools lawyers use for organizing their work
• Strong analytical and communication skills; able to translate legal context into product insight
• Highly curious and imaginative about unmet needs in legal practice - you actively hunt for pain points faced by lawyers today and love brainstorming innovative solutions
• High-output, results-driven mindset with attention to detail
• Interest in legal technology and willingness to learn new tools and approaches
• Comfortable collaborating with diverse stakeholders, including legal professionals, product managers, designers, and engineers

What you can look forward to

• You will be able to take on full ownership of your projects and tasks from day 1
• You will have a stake in shaping the future of a high-impact, high-growth deep-tech startup
• Competitive compensation, flexible working arrangements

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. If this role ignites a spark in you, but you're concerned about not meeting every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway – Just make sure to explain why you'd be a good fit.

This is important to us: DeepJudge is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.