Senior Legal Engineer (m/f/d) | Legal AI Tech Start-up | Full remote
Permanent employee, Full-time · Berlin
Our offer for you
As a Senior Legal Engineer (m/f/d), you'll shape the future of legal work at Noxtua. You translate complex legal requirements into AI-based solutions and develop proofs-of-concept that demonstrate how legal research, contract drafting and review, application and administrative procedures, as well as other legal processes, can be automated and optimised.
You develop requirement catalogs and structured prompts that form the foundation of our Legal AI workspace. Additionally, you design legal benchmarks, build test sets, validate AI outputs, and ensure continuous quality assurance. You work closely with our AI experts and conduct internal and external workshops on the use of Legal AI.
YOUR TEAM
Noxtua's Legal Team currently consists of several fully qualified lawyers, research associates, and Legal Engineers. Together, we combine legal excellence with a deep understanding of Legal Tech and AI. Through our interdisciplinary collaboration with the AI and Product teams, we develop practical, legally compliant, and innovative solutions for law firms, companies, and the public sector. We work in an agile, collaborative manner with high technical depth – and actively shape European Legal AI.
BENEFITS
Working hours: Flexible working hours
Vacation: 26 days + December 24th & 31st off, +1 day for each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days)
Remote: 100% remote work possible (given an EU residence), with the flexibility to use our offices in Berlin, Fribourg (Switzerland), Munich, Paris, or Zagreb.
Home Office Setup Budget: €1,000 paid with your first salary to create your ideal remote workspace
Equipment: Laptop (Lenovo or Mac)
Discounts: e.g., Urban Sports Club Membership
Your responsibilities
Translating legal requirements into AI-compatible prompts, templates, and workflows
Legal research and analysis of new areas of law, as well as development of use cases and proof-of-concepts
Creation and implementation of requirement catalogs for structured document integration
Development of legal benchmarks, building test sets, and validation of AI outputs
Conducting and supporting QA processes to ensure professional quality
Collaboration with Product, Tech, and AI in developing new Legal AI features
Conducting training sessions and workshops (e.g., prompting, Legal AI best practices) for internal teams and potentially clients
About you
Completed First and ideally Second State Examination as well we a doctorate
Experience as a Legal Engineer
Ability to quickly and confidently familiarise yourself with new areas of law
Sound knowledge in Legal Tech or Legal AI
Team player, committed, and passionate about complex legal topics
Structured, independent working style and confident interaction with internal and external stakeholders
Basic understanding of Python or initial programming experience
Advantageous: Experience with software or AI development (professional or personal)
Residence within the EU
Very good German and English language skills
About us
Noxtua is Europe's leading sovereign Legal AI. The legally compliant and competent AI helps legal professionals to research legal issues and review, and draft legal documents. The GDPR-compliant Legal AI meets the high professional and data protection requirements for lawyers (§ 203 Penal Code, § 43e Federal Lawyers' Act) and is certified according to ISO 27001, 9001, 27018, 27017, 42001, and BSI C5. The product version Beck-Noxtua is based on the exclusive data of Germany’s leading legal publisher C.H.Beck and Germany’s largest business law firm CMS.
Emerging from a 2017 research project by Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk and Professor Dr. Michael Huth at Oxford University and Imperial College London, the Berlin-based Legal-Tech company, formerly known as Xayn, boasts extensive experience in developing highly efficient GDPR-compliant AI solutions. Strategic partners, including Germany's leading legal publisher C.H.Beck, the High-Performance Computing specialist Northern Data, Germany's largest business law firm, and co-initiator of the Legal AI Noxtua CMS, as well as the world's largest law firm Dentons, have invested a total of € 80.7 million in the German startup as part of its Series B funding round.
We explicitly encourage women to apply, as they are currently underrepresented. Our goal is to build a diverse and inclusive work environment that values different perspectives. Of course, we welcome applications from all qualified individuals – regardless of gender, ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, or sexual identity.
