Legora

Legal Engineer Associate at Legora (Chicago, IL)

Legora· Chicago, IL· $145k–$196k·

Role details

Salary
$145k–$196k
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time
Equity
Yes
Skills
Prompt engineeringLegal AIContract reviewLegal research
Benefits

Equity · Bonus · Medical Insurance · Dental Insurance · Vision Insurance · Parental Leave · Maven Clinic Access · Dependent Care FSA

Legora at a glance

Legora builds a collaborative, agentic AI workspace that helps lawyers review, research, draft, and advise faster.

Legora is an AI-native "agentic operating system" for legal work. Its Agent plans, executes, reviews, and delivers complex legal tasks end to end, backed by tools for document review, citation-backed research, drafting, and regulatory monitoring, with lawyers kept in control where judgment is required.

$600M (Series D) raised · latest: Series D · $600M ($550M + $50M extension) · $5.6B valuation · 2026 · backed by Accel, Benchmark, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst

Summary

The Legal Engineer Associate supports the legal tech platform by assisting with client-facing pilots, onboarding, and training. The role involves designing use cases for AI-driven legal tasks like contract review and drafting, capturing user insights, and documenting best practices for product improvement.

Job description

About Us

Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar.

Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes.

2,100+ customers across 80+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $200M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI, Graceview, Cadastral, and Wexler.

We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.

Joining Legora means three things.

  • We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions.
  • We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback.
  • We grow together: as a team and with our customers.

Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts. If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.

The Role

This is a unique opportunity to sit at the intersection of law, technology, and product. You’ll gain hands on experience in how cutting edge AI is transforming the legal industry, while contributing directly to the development, testing, and adoption of our platform.

You’ll work closely with our Legal Engineers, Customer Success, and Product teams to:

  • Support client facing pilots, onboarding, and training, helping legal teams get the most out of Legora.
  • Design and evaluate use cases that showcase our AI on real legal tasks like contract review, research, and drafting.
  • Capture insights from users and translate them into clear, actionable feedback for product improvements.
  • Document best practices and contribute to internal playbooks for how legal AI can be deployed at scale.

What You Bring

  • Exposure to and Interest in Law: Completed J.D. required.
  • Level of Experience: 0+ years (Trainee/paralegal)
  • Tech curious: Not necessarily a coder, but eager to engage with AI, product features, and workflow automation. Someone who is not afraid to experiment with prompt engineering.
  • Strong communicator: Able to translate between lawyers and technologists clearly and confidently.
  • Analytical and detail-oriented: Capable of evaluating outputs and spotting where AI meets or misses the mark.
  • Adaptable and proactive: Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment, bringing structure to ambiguity.

What’s In It For You

  • Global collaboration: Partner with teams and clients across Europe, APAC, and North America.
  • Competitive package: Comprehensive salary, benefits, and tools for success.
  • Meaningful work: Your efforts shape how thousands of lawyers use AI daily.
  • In-person environment: Chicago office designed for ambitious builders and company provided lunch daily.
  • Benefits & Perks: We invest in our people with a comprehensive, thoughtfully designed benefits package: Medical, Dental & Vision
  • Multiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente
  • HSA or Healthcare FSA (based on plan selection)
  • Dental plans via MetLife
  • Vision plans via Vision Care

Family Support

  • Generous parental leave
  • Free access to Maven Clinic
  • Dependent Care FSA
  • Free One Medical membership for employees and dependents

Additional Perks

  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Life Insurance + STD/LTD
  • 401(K) with generous company match
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Professional License & Certification Reimbursement
  • Robust voluntary benefits, including identity protection (via Aura), legal coverage via MetLife, pet savings programs, and more

Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer At Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Why work at Legora

  • Culture: Values include "lean in," "fight for excellence," "grow together," and "curiosity and clarity." Emphasis on transparency, speed, and real impact over hierarchy [legora.com/careers].
  • Work environment: Highly collaborative – "collaboration isn’t a process, it’s our foundation" [legora.com/about]. Hybrid/office presence likely given multiple locations; exact policy not specified.
  • Engineering focus: Roles span software engineering, AI, site reliability, and product design. Hiring process includes a case presentation and a final interview with the CEO.
  • Perks: Not explicitly detailed, but employer rating is 4.4/5 (Work-Life: 4.5, Compensation: 5.0, Culture: 4.4, Career: 4.4) from 9 reviews on LinkedIn.

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