Legal Engineer

About Lawhive: Lawhive is a global, AI-native law firm. Operating in the US and UK, we’ve built our own agentic operating system for legal services. We partner with leading Main Street law firms to give lawyers and back-office teams the AI platform, marketing, and operational support to grow faster than they could alone. Our specialized AI agent for legal work, Lawrence, works alongside lawyers, putting human legal judgment right where it belongs: at the center of every matter.

The Role: We’re hiring our first Legal Engineer focused on family law in the US. You’ll be a practicing (or previously practicing) family law attorney who wants to build the tools, not just use them. You’ll work in two directions. With Product and Engineering, you’ll shape family-law-specific functionality in Lawhive: how matters are opened, how deadlines, hearings and disclosure obligations are tracked, and how pleadings, financial affidavits and settlement documents are drafted and checked. With our partner firms, you’ll configure Lawhive around how their attorneys and staff actually work, and keep tuning it until it saves them real time.

This is a hands-on role. You’ll write workflows and prompts, test outputs against your own legal judgement, and decide what good looks like for a family law practice. You’ll start with an established family law firm with offices and clients in several states. The firm handles everything from uncontested divorces to complex high-asset and custody litigation, so Lawhive needs to support its whole caseload across different state rules and court practices.

What You’ll Do:

• Act as the subject-matter lead for family law: map the end-to-end matter lifecycle, from intake and conflict checks through petition and service, temporary orders, financial disclosure and discovery, mediation, trial, final decree, and post-judgment modification and enforcement.
• Turn that knowledge into product requirements, workflows and acceptance criteria that engineers can build against.
• Design, test and refine the prompts, templates and checks our AI agent uses for family law work.
• Build evaluation sets from real matter types and judge output quality as a practitioner would.
• Keep the product current as state statutes, child support guidelines, local court rules and forms change.
• Spend time with attorneys, paralegals and intake teams to understand where time is lost, then fix it in the product or in their setup.
• Run training and workshops so firms use more of the platform, and follow up on adoption.
• Measure the effect: time per matter, time to complete financial disclosure, drafting turnaround, and matters handled per attorney.
• Bring firm feedback back to Product and help decide what gets built next.
• Write playbooks for configuring and supporting family law firms.
• Help us decide how this model extends to other states and related practice areas, such as adoption, guardianship and estate planning.

What You’ll Bring:

• JD and active admission to at least one US state bar.
• 3+ years practicing family law: contested and uncontested divorce, custody and parenting time, child and spousal support, property division, and post-judgment modifications.
• Familiarity with the more complex edges of family practice.
• A clear view of where family law practices lose time, and ideas for fixing it.
• Hands-on comfort with technology.
• Good judgement on AI risk in a sensitive practice area.
• Clear communication with both attorneys and engineers.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and with setting your own priorities in a fast-moving team.

Interview process: Introductory call with our Talent team, 1:1 with your hiring manager, Practical skills assessment, Values interview with one of our Founders.

We offer:

• Healthcare benefits: 'Premium' plan with 100% employee cover and 50% dependent cover.
• Vacation: 20 days + 11 Federal holidays + 1 day of Birthday leave.
• 401k: Matching contribution up to 2% of salary.
• Meaningful early-stage share options.
• Work from anywhere for a month.
• Top-spec Macbook.
• Regular team building activities and socials!

Diversity at Lawhive: At Lawhive we know that diversity of thought is critical to delivering outlier outcomes. As such, we’re always working hard to ensure we build a diverse, inclusive team.