Legal Engineer

The role

You will translate complex law and legal practice into product logic. You will work with engineers and designers to develop AI product functionality and act as an expert for first customers.

What you will do

• Bring legal thinking into every stage of product development
• Translate complex law and legal practice into product logic
• Work with engineers and designers to turn understanding into product functionality
• Develop requirements, knowledge and context structures, workflows, user journeys, test cases and evaluations
• Use the product to identify failure modes, edge cases and opportunities
• Act as an expert for first customers
• Gather feedback to inform product decisions
• Help establish the company as a thought leader in AI and legal and compliance tech

Required qualifications

• Hardworking and technically excellent lawyer
• Ability to think conceptually and structurally about law and its application
• Ability to break complex legal problems into clear and workable structures
• Independent problem-solver
• 3+ years worked in a top-tier legal environment
• Experience of advising on regulatory frameworks
• Solid understanding of using frontier AI
• Experience using and experimenting with current AI systems

Nice to have

• Experience from other legal jurisdictions, such as the US, UK, France or Germany

About the company

freda is building AI-driven legal and compliance technology. The founding team has previously founded, scaled, and exited technology companies with billion-dollar outcomes.