Legal Engineer (Family Law)

The role

You will act as a subject-matter lead for removal defense to build product requirements, workflows, and AI prompts. You will work with product and engineering teams to shape functionality and partner with law firms to configure the platform and drive adoption.

What you will do

• Map the end-to-end matter lifecycle for removal defense
• Turn legal knowledge into product requirements, workflows and acceptance criteria
• Design, test and refine prompts, templates and checks for the AI agent
• Build evaluation sets and judge output quality
• Keep the product current as policy and agency guidance change
• Spend time with attorneys, paralegals and intake teams to understand time loss
• Run training and workshops for firms
• Measure the effect on time per matter and filing turnaround
• Bring firm feedback back to Product
• Write playbooks for configuring and supporting immigration firms

Required qualifications

• JD and active admission to at least one US state bar
• 3+ years practicing removal defense, with your own caseload in immigration court
• Familiarity with federal court work for immigration clients, such as habeas petitions and mandamus actions
• A clear view of where immigration practices lose time, and ideas for fixing it
• Hands-on comfort with technology
• Good judgement on AI risk in a high-stakes practice area
• Clear communication with both attorneys and engineers
• Comfortable with ambiguity and with setting your own priorities

Nice to have

• Built workflows, templates or automations, set up a case management system or used generative AI seriously in your own practice

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits: 'Premium' plan with 100% employee cover and 50% dependent cover
• 20 days vacation + 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!

Before you apply

• Introductory call with our Talent team
• 1:1 with your hiring manager
• Practical skills assessment
• Values interview with one of our Founders

About the company

Lawhive is a global, AI-native law firm operating in the US and UK. They have built an agentic operating system for legal services and partner with law firms to provide AI platforms, marketing, and operational support.