Senior Legal Engineer at Genie AI – London, United Kingdom

Join us on our quest to revolutionise the legal industry with the help of AI. You will work side by side with brilliant AI Scientists, immersing yourself in cutting‐edge AI research in the legal domain. With your legal expertise, you will be the guardian of quality, ensuring our AI's output is as precise and powerful as the finest legal contracts.

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. Working with the latest LLM technologies, we need your skills to push the boundaries of what is possible in law.

Your manager and team: The law should be accessible to everyone, and this is where your skills will shine as you craft and manage processes for the human evaluation of AI‐generated legal content. You’ll work hand in hand with our Applied AI Research team, bringing your legal expertise to the creation of AI‐driven contract drafting and negotiation tools. Guided by the wisdom of Alex, our Lead Machine Learning Research Scientist, and supported by Nitish, our CTO and Co‐founder, you’ll be part of a user‐focused, collaborative team on a quest for constant learning.

This is what you’ll be doing: As a Legal Engineer at Genie AI you’ll be working in a fast paced and autonomous startup environment. Some of your key day to day duties include:

• Partaking in ideation sessions to unearth legal challenges, where you will research, analyse, and share your legal wisdom with the researchers.
• Lend your expertise to test, offer feedback, and refine AI solutions as they evolve, ensuring each iteration grows ever more powerful.
• Help evaluate our legal output: Infuse our evaluation methodology with legal insights, then recruit and manage legal annotators to gather feedback.
• Produce valuable insights and reports from the evaluation research, illuminating the way forward with newfound knowledge.
• Manage interdisciplinary projects that bridge law and technology.

This is how we’ll set you up for success and the outcomes we expect from you: Over your first 90 days you can expect us to help point you in the right direction to set you up for success. During the interview process we can talk you through a high level overview of your 90 day plan. By the end of your first two months we expect you to:

• Understand what the evaluation process involves and start thinking about how to shape it.
• Take part in Machine Learning discussions about feature design.
• Familiarise yourself with the tools we have and immerse yourself in Machine Learning learnings.
• Start designing and running evaluations.
• Participate in a new Machine Learning project from inception.

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

• Quality of domain advice and feedback that helps us design new AI features.
• Ability to set up efficient processes for human evaluation of legal content and providing reliable legal quality metrics.
• Producing actionable reports to either help us improve the models or provide us with confidence to launch into production.

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 what and the whole team comes up with the how.
• We don’t try to get things perfect the first time. We get things to good enough, and then we continuously iterate.
• We are inventing a new product, so you’ll be involved in the product refinement sessions.

But we think you’ll love:

• The autonomy and trust we give you to deliver your best work.
• Learning from some of the brightest minds in the field of AI.
• The exhilaration of a fast pace start up.

The skills you need to succeed in this role:

• A deep practical understanding of contract law and legal document analysis.
• Good drafting skills and experience in contract negotiation.
• Mastery in project management and the ability to weave together cross‐functional collaboration will be key to your success.
• You possess an LLB or equivalent legal qualification, with a strong background in contract law.
• You have previously completed Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE).

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: Technical interview with Rafie our Co-Founder & CEO, and Alex, our Lead ML Research Scientist.
• Step 4: Culture interview with Nitish, our Co-Founder & CTO, and Cat, our Product Marketing Lead.
• Step 5: 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.

Here’s just some of the benefits you can look forward to when you enter the Genie’s lamp:

• 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. Your workspace will be as splendid as a royal palace.
• 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!

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.