Legal Innovation Engineer

About Us

At Emma Legal®, we are reimagining how Legal Due Diligence (LDD) gets done. Our AI-powered workspace helps corporate lawyers work smarter, faster and more accurately, transforming one of the most critical processes in M&A dealmaking.

We are hiring a Legal Innovation Engineer to help build the legal knowledge and methodology behind our workspace. You will work closely with our legal, product and engineering colleagues, learn how a legal AI product is built, and take on more ownership as you and the company grow.

You do not need to have done this exact job before. You do need solid legal judgement, real curiosity about AI, and a willingness to dig into the detail yourself.

The Role

You will work as a liaison between legal practice, our customers and our product team, and help make sure Emma Legal is genuinely designed around how lawyers run due diligence. This role reports in to our Legal Innovation Counsel.

Key Responsibilities

• Legal content: Help build and maintain the legal methodology behind Emma Legal® — review frameworks, due diligence checklists, templates, issue categories, reporting structures and prompts.
• Working with AI tools: Use assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot in your daily work to draft, test and refine prompts, and review their output for legal accuracy.
• Testing: Try out new workflows and AI capabilities on real matters, spot where they break down, and feed clear findings back to the team.
• Product input: Help translate real legal workflows and customer needs into feature ideas and improvements.
• Product demos: Create and maintain short product demo videos that clearly showcase Emma Legal®’s features, workflows and use cases for customers, prospects and internal team.
• Customer contact: Join calls with lawyers and legal teams to understand their approach to due diligence and support them in getting more out of Emma Legal®.
• Collaboration: Work with our product and engineering teams to turn legal requirements into practical technology.

At its heart, this is a legal engineering role. Much of your time will go into shaping the legal logic behind the product, the frameworks, checklists, issue categories and prompts that guide how Emma Legal reviews a deal. Working with customers supports that side of the job: the time you spend with the lawyers who use the workspace helps inform what you design, and you will have the chance to see your own ideas become features used on live transactions.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate is a qualified lawyer with hands-on due diligence experience. We will also consider legal engineers, legal operations professionals and others with a strong combination of legal and technology experience.

• 3–5 years of experience in a legal environment, in private practice or an in-house legal team.
• Combined experience across M&A, corporate law and legal due diligence.
• Confident using AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot, and keen to learn how to prompt them well.
• Careful legal analysis and strong attention to detail.
• An ability to break a legal process down into clear, repeatable steps.
• Fluent English, plus at least one other language (ideally more) — French, Dutch, German, Spanish or otherwise.
• Clear communication and comfort speaking directly with customers.
• A hands-on, curious mindset and a willingness to work across legal, product and engineering.
• Bonus: a lawyer who has already moved into legal tech, legal operations, knowledge management, innovation or product.

You do not need to be a software engineer, and you do not need to write code. You do need to be curious about technology and excited to rethink how legal work is done.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Equity Stock Options (ESOPs).
• The opportunity to work at the forefront of LegalTech innovation with a growing, mission-driven company.
• Flexible working arrangements, including remote work.
• Direct collaboration with the Legal Innovation Counsel and the product team.
• A professional, inclusive environment focused on growth and excellence.
• The ability to grow and take on more responsibility as the company grows.

How to Apply

To apply, please submit your Curriculum Vitae and a brief introduction video (max. 5 minutes) during which you introduce yourself, share your experience with legal DD, and explain why you are the ideal candidate for the job and what your take is on the future of LegalTech to careers@emma.legal or apply directly through Linkedin.