Legal Engineer, Law Firms and In-House, Dubai

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. 1,000+ customers across 50+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $100M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI and Graceview. 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. ABOUT THE ROLE Let's get the tricky part out of the way. Legal Engineering does not fit neatly into a traditional box. It combines legal practice, product fluency, client leadership and practical change management. The job exists because software alone does not change how legal work gets done. Someone has to understand the work well enough to redesign it, and be credible enough that lawyers listen. As a Legal Engineer in Dubai, you sit between the lawyers using Legora and the people building it. You will work with law firms and in-house legal teams across the Middle East: running pilots, leading onboarding and rollouts, designing the workflows that make the platform genuinely useful for a specific team, and teaching people to use it well. When something does not work, you find out why and either fix it with the client or get it in front of Product with enough evidence to act on. This is a client-facing craft role, not an account-management role. The measure of your work is whether real lawyers do real work differently because of what you built and taught. The Middle East is its own market. The enterprise opportunity spans international firms, leading regional firms and in-house teams at large corporates and sovereign-linked entities. The legal landscape covers federal law, emirate-level systems and the common-law free zones of DIFC and ADGM. Arabic-language work and a credible answer on data protection and hosting are part of the job here, not an edge case. Dubai is an early team. You will help decide how Legal Engineering works in this region rather than inherit a finished playbook. YOU MAY COME FROM A LAW FIRM OR AN IN-HOUSE TEAM We hire from both, and we mean it. Neither route is the preferred one. From a law firm. You have done substantive legal work at a firm where quality was not negotiable, and you understand how matters are actually run: the pressure, the economics, the billing model, and why partners adopt some things and quietly ignore others. Perhaps you led a knowledge or innovation initiative, or you were the person in your team who worked out what the new tools could really do. You know how to earn the trust of sceptical, technical lawyers, because you have been one. From an in-house team. You have worked inside a legal function, balancing competing business priorities and doing more with less. Perhaps you sat in legal operations, running efficiency and transformation work. Perhaps you moved into legal technology or consulting and helped in-house teams modernise. You know how these teams think, work and sometimes struggle, and you know that adoption depends as much on the business around legal as on legal itself. Either way, you have not been content with how things have always been done, and you would rather build the better version than write a memo about it. WHAT THE WORK INVOLVES The shape of the work is consistent across seniority. The scale of what you own changes. - Learn the product properly and stay ahead of it. Legora changes quickly, and your credibility depends on knowing what it does, what it does not do yet, and where the sensible limits are. - Translate real legal workflows into working Legora use cases, then test whether the output holds up against the standard a practising lawyer would apply. - Run demos, workshops and training that are grounded in the client's own work rather than a feature tour. - Own pilots and rollouts: plan them, keep them moving, define what success means up front and report honestly against it. - Build trust with the people who decide, from day-to-day contacts through to partners, general counsels and heads of legal operations. - Capture product gaps and client needs with enough evidence and clarity that Product can act on them, including Arabic-language and local requirements. - Turn what works into reusable material: templates, guides, recordings and playbooks that make the next engagement faster than the last. - Work alongside Go-to-Market and Engagement colleagues so commercial momentum and delivery quality support one another, with clean handovers in both directions. - Develop a view on how AI is changing legal work and share it credibly, internally and with clients. WHAT WE LOOK FOR Five qualities matter at every level. What changes with experience is the scope you carry, the seniority of the room you hold, and how much others rely on your judgment. - Product knowledge and application. Earlier in your career, this means configuring standard use cases end to end from established patterns, explaining the setup clearly to users, and running a good demo of new capability. With more experience, it means owning priority use cases from discovery to go-live against measurable targets, varying the approach where the client demands it, defining what good looks like for a large programme, and producing material the rest of the team reuses. - Communication. Earlier, this means clear written follow-ups, and tailored demos that explain why a capability matters rather than only how it works, adjusted in real time to the room. With more experience, it means leading sessions with senior lawyers, connecting the platform to measurable business results, handling hard objections with evidence, and helping colleagues sharpen their own narrative and delivery. - Project and programme management. Earlier, this means independently owning a workstream with visible owners, deadlines and dependencies, and communicating changes and their implications early. With more experience, it means planning and leading complex rollouts, knowing when to use the standard playbook and when to vary it, running governance properly, and adjusting the plan as the environment shifts. - Stakeholder management. Earlier, this means being reliable and responsive, setting expectations you then meet, and knowing when to escalate. With more experience, it means holding trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, surfacing concerns before they become blockers, resolving tension between groups, and coaching others on how to do the same. - Thought leadership. Earlier, this means explaining confidently and accurately what AI does and does not do for legal work, and what that means for how lawyers practise. With more experience, it means leading external discussions in multiple forums, and turning what you see in the field into narratives, enablement material and product input the wider company uses. You do not need to have held a Legal Engineering role before. The profession is new and almost nobody has ten years of it. What matters is whether the underlying capability is there, in whatever setting you built it. SENIORITY, TITLE AND LEVEL We are hiring across the full range for this team, from roughly one year of relevant experience after qualification through to ten years and beyond. Titles run from Legal Engineering Associate through Legal Engineer, Senior Legal Engineer and Lead Legal Engineer. Apply once. Title and level are decided at the offer stage, based on your experience and what you demonstrate in the process, not on the title you hold today. If you are more senior than you expected to be reading this, say so and we will calibrate properly. WHAT YOU BRING You will thrive in this role if you: - Have a legal qualification and real experience of substantive legal work, either at a law firm or in an in-house legal function. The jurisdiction of qualification matters less than your credibility with senior legal stakeholders in this region. - Are genuinely curious about generative AI and product. You do not need to be a software engineer, but you do need to enjoy technical conversations and learn new tools quickly and properly. - Can explain technical ideas to lawyers and legal realities to technical people, in writing and in person. - Bring structure to your own work. You plan, name owners and dependencies, meet deadlines and flag problems early rather than late. - Are comfortable with an early-stage environment where the playbook is still being written and priorities move. - Care about the client's outcome more than the demo going well. - Communicate fluently in English. Arabic is strongly preferred and materially useful in this market. - Are based in Dubai and able to work from the office five days per week, with some travel across the region. A FEW MORE THINGS We are a fast-growing company with bold ambitions, so you will be joining while things are moving quickly, in the best possible way. You will have a lot of autonomy, a lot of responsibility and a real chance to shape how this function works in the region. Everyone here has a founder mentality. Dubai is a build. You will not inherit a finished local system. You will inherit real customer proof in the region, partnerships worth building on, and the useful mess that comes with early scale. If that sounds exciting rather than terrifying, we would like to hear from you.     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.