Legal Engineer

As our Legal Engineer, you’ll sit at the intersection of law and technology, helping translate legal expertise into AI-powered tools used by thousands of companies. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our AI agents produce accurate, reliable and commercially useful legal outputs. Your legal insights will directly influence the design, training and evaluation of AI systems powering Genie.

Your purpose in our mission: We’ve raised $17.8 million in Series A funding led by Google Ventures and joined by Khosla Ventures. They believe in our vision that the law should be accessible to everyone, and this is where your skills will help ensure our AI systems produce legal outputs that are precise, reliable and aligned with real-world legal practice.

Your manager and team: Our org structure is made up of pods with distinct areas of focus to keep us all working on the most impactful things for our customers all of the time. Some of our team members work across multiple pods. Our structure was conceived with impact, autonomy and velocity in mind and we’d love to share more with you throughout our interview process. Your manager, Nitish Mutha, our Co‑Founder & CTO will develop your skills and enable you to deliver on the pod mission.

This is what you’ll be doing: As a Legal Engineer at Genie AI you’ll be joining us in a dynamic stage of our growth so you’ll face lots of different challenges. Doing legal engineering for an AI product is a fascinating challenge, so be prepared to adapt your skillset! Below is what we need you to do, it’s up to you on how:

• AI evaluation and benchmarking: Evaluate the quality and reliability of our AI agents’ legal outputs. You’ll initially conduct hands‑on legal evaluations, while working toward building scalable automated evaluation systems using LLM‑as‑a‑judge techniques.
• Developing legally intelligent AI agents: Help improve our AI agents by encoding specialised legal knowledge and strong legal drafting practices into their behaviour.
• Testing and iterating on AI systems: Work closely with researchers and engineers to test AI features, provide legal feedback, and iterate on solutions to improve performance and reliability.
• Evaluation insights and reporting: Analyse evaluation results and produce clear insights and reports that guide improvements to our AI models and product.
• Leading the LegalBench community benchmark: Lead the development of our community‑led LegalBench benchmarking initiative, helping design evaluation tasks, build a roadmap, and coordinate work with the wider legal and AI community.

This is how we’ll set you up for success and the outcomes we expect from you: Over your first 90 days we can talk you through a high level overview of your 90‑day plan. By the end of your first six months we expect you to be:

• Designing and running evaluations of AI‑generated legal outputs.
• Contributing legal insight to machine learning feature design.
• Producing actionable reports that guide improvements to our AI Agents.

We’ll continually develop and measure success on the below criteria:

• The quality of legal expertise and feedback you provide to the AI engineering team.
• Your ability to design efficient and reliable evaluation processes for legal AI.
• The clarity and impact of insights you generate from evaluation research.

We are a start‑up in an exceptionally dynamic stage of our growth. We are a customer and employee‑led organisation. What this means is that we adapt to our customers' needs, and the problems we’re solving today could be very different in six months, or even by the end of this recruitment process. We also listen to our team as we empower you to have full autonomy of your role – you’re the expert. You should expect to work with us on how your role develops, grows and changes throughout your time at Genie.

It can be tough here because we don’t structure your work for you, we give the team the problem and trust you to find the best solution. We iterate quickly and often improve things after launch rather than aiming for perfection first. We’re building something entirely new, which means constant learning and ambiguity.

But we think you’ll love:

• The autonomy and trust we give you to own your work.
• Learning from some of the brightest minds in AI and legal tech.
• The excitement and pace of building a category‑defining product.

The skills you need to succeed in this role:

• A legal qualification (LLB or equivalent).
• Strong practical knowledge of contract law and experience analysing legal documents.
• Excellent legal drafting skills, with experience reviewing and negotiating contracts.
• A strong interest in AI and enthusiasm for learning about emerging technologies.
• Ability to work cross‑functionally and collaborate effectively with technical teams.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• A proactive, creative and entrepreneurial mindset.
• Comfortable working in fast‑moving environments and thinking outside the box.
• A curiosity for innovation and improving how legal work is done.

(Don’t worry about ticking every single box on the list to be considered for this role.)

Unleash your magic: our interview process:

• Step 1: Meet our Head of Talent Acquisition, Char to assess your motivations and baseline skills.
• Step 2: Complete our take home task.
• Step 3: Motivation, Behavioural, Technical interview with Nitish Mutha, our Co‑Founder & CTO.
• Step 4: Legal Domain interview with Rafie, our Co‑Founder & CEO and one of our Legal Advisors.

For Lead level roles and above, we collect blind references to set you up for success. These insights help us ensure a smooth transition into our team and foster meaningful collaboration between you and your manager from day one. We can’t wait to meet you! Bring your authentic self, and get ready to explore our culture, team events, and big mission. We’re excited to discover what makes you and us unique.

Our benefits:

• Generous Stock Options: We want all our genies to share in our success.
• Private healthcare: To help keep you fit as a fiddle.
• Fully Remote Working: Work from anywhere your heart desires.
• Unlimited book budget: Dive into an unlimited budget for business, law, or technology books.
• Home Office Setup: Equip your home office with the best – a top‑of‑the‑range laptop, monitor, wireless keyboard, mouse, and a comfortable office chair.
• Learning and Development Budget: Each Genie gets an individual £500 L&D budget annually, plus five days off for any job specific learning adventures.
• Unlimited Holiday: Take as much time off as you need to recharge your batteries.
• Parental Leave: Both genie parents get enhanced leave to welcome their little genies into the world.
• Free access to Genie: For you to create, negotiate and collaborate on legal documents in real time on one platform!

About Genie AI: Genie AI is a machine learning startup with a mission to enable everyone to draft quality legal documents. We’re shaking up the legal world and flipping the business model on its head! Think of what GitHub did with open source code, Instagram and TikTok with entertainment, Airbnb with hospitality, and Uber with travel – Genie AI is doing that with legal contracts. We’re conjuring up a community‑based AI law platform that’ll change the game. Join us, and let’s make some legal magic together!

100,000 companies use Genie AI today - we’ve been growing exponentially! We’re funded by the world’s top investors, with significant runway - and we’re growing the team. We’ve collaborated with Oxford University and Imperial College London to co‑author research papers on explainable AI. According to Forbes, we’re also rated one of the top 29 AI startups in the UK. We’re a Sunday Times Best Places to Work Award Winner 2024. We’re backed by top legal pedigree, from Lord Neuberger to representing the UK on multiple Ministry of Justice trade missions. Our customers save on average £15,000 on legal fees per year with Genie. This isn’t just a SaaS product - we’re redefining the business model of law.

Ready to grant wishes and disrupt a £750bn industry? Click apply and join us in creating a world of digital wonders! At Genie, we’re committed to creating a diverse environment. Whilst we’re on the cutting edge of innovation, it’s all about the people. We embrace differences and hire based on merit, giving equal consideration to all applications, regardless of gender, background and race.