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Legal Engineer shaping AI workflows for US immigration and removal-defense practices at global AI-native law firm Lawhive. Translating attorney expertise into product requirements and partner-firm configurations.
Responsibilities:
- Act as the subject-matter lead for removal defense: map the end-to-end matter lifecycle, from intake and NTA review through master and individual hearings, relief applications, BIA appeals and bond.
- Turn legal knowledge into product requirements, workflows and acceptance criteria for engineers.
- Design, test and refine prompts, templates and checks for the AI agent's immigration work, including EOIR filings, I-589 and cancellation of removal packages, evidence indexes and country conditions research.
- Build evaluation sets from real matter types and judge output quality as a practitioner.
- Keep the product current as policy, EOIR practice and agency guidance change, aligning with the Legal Data librarian and maintaining the firm's context layer.
- Work with attorneys, paralegals and intake teams to identify lost time and improve the product or firm setup.
- Run training and workshops, follow up on platform adoption and measure time per matter, filing turnaround and matters handled per attorney.
- Bring firm feedback to Product and help prioritize future development.
- Write playbooks for configuring and supporting immigration firms.
- Help determine how the model extends to other immigration practice areas.
Requirements:
- JD and active admission to at least one US state bar.
- 3+ years practicing removal defense, with your own caseload in immigration court: detained or non-detained, master and individual hearings, relief applications and appeals.
- 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. You've built workflows, templates or automations, set up a case management system or used generative AI seriously in your own practice. You don't need to be a programmer.
- Good judgement on AI risk in a high-stakes practice area: what can be automated, what needs attorney review, and how to tell the difference.
- Clear communication with both attorneys and engineers. You can explain a cancellation of removal standard to a developer and a data model to a managing partner.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and with setting your own priorities in a fast-moving team.
Benefits:
- Healthcare benefits: 'Premium' plan with 100% employee cover and 50% dependent cover
- Vacation: 20 days + 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!
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