Legal Workflow Engineer (Zurich or Remote-USA East Coast)

DeepJudge is a fast-growing venture-backed scale-up at the forefront of applying Artificial Intelligence in the legal domain. Founded by ex-Googlers and PhDs in AI, our mission is to help legal teams harness their collective knowledge so they can focus on the truly strategic aspects of their work. DeepJudge’s state-of-the-art knowledge retrieval system directs legal professionals to the internal insights that matter most, providing a strong foundation for AI-powered workflows. We’re headquartered in Switzerland, with a strong and fast-growing team in the United States and Canada, and cater to clients all around the world.

We’re a fast-paced team of builders, thinkers, and doers who care deeply about our craft. We’re also pet lovers, travelers, musicians, gamers, and so much more! Above all, we’re driven by a shared belief in what we’re building and the people we’re building it with.

We're looking for a thoughtful and pragmatic Legal Workflow Engineer to help shape the future of AI-powered legal work. As a subject matter expert on legal workflows, you will directly contribute to building use cases for various practice areas, and also serve as a resource to our product and engineering teams. Bringing practical insight into how legal professionals work.

This is an exciting opportunity for a lawyer who is passionate about improving how legal work gets done. You are a good fit for this role if you enjoy working with customers as well as internal teams, combining thoughtful research, structured thinking, domain knowledge, and product intuition.

• Serve as a subject matter expert on legal workflows and practice-area-specific processes to act as the bridge between legal expertise and technical teams.
• Research legal use cases and identify high-impact AI workflow opportunities, working directly with clients and internal teams to understand pain points and priorities.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to design, test, and refine AI solutions that are both innovative and practical.
• Contribute to prompt engineering and evaluation strategies for legal-specific tasks.
• Help develop our product roadmap using evidence-based insights and an understanding of how to deliver maximum ROI to our customers.
• Ensure our tools align with how lawyers actually work, supporting project management, knowledge reuse, and client service delivery.
• Act as the bridge between legal expertise and technical teams, ensuring that AI workflows are both technically feasible and legally sound.
• Facilitate discovery sessions and feedback loops with clients to ensure AI solutions address real-world legal challenges.

• At least 3 years of experience practicing law at a large or mid-sized law firm in the US, CA, UK, Switzerland, or Germany
• Deep understanding of legal workflows across one or more practice groups in corporate and/or litigation
• Experience with legal knowledge management, checklists, and templates, as well as the internal software tools lawyers use for organizing their work 
• Strong analytical and communication skills; able to translate legal context into product insight
• Highly curious and imaginative about unmet needs in legal practice - you actively hunt for pain points faced by lawyers today and love brainstorming innovative solutions 
• High-output, results-driven mindset with attention to detail
• Interest in legal technology and willingness to learn new tools and approaches
• Comfortable collaborating with diverse stakeholders, including legal professionals, product managers, designers, and engineers

• You will be able to take on full ownership of your projects and tasks from day 1
• You will have a stake in shaping the future of a high-impact, high-growth deep-tech scale-up
• Competitive compensation, flexible working arrangements

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. If this role ignites a spark in you, but you're concerned about not meeting every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway – Just make sure to explain why you'd be a good fit.

This is important to us: DeepJudge is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.