Legal Engineer (AI)

Location: Paris, France; on-site in the office five days per week. Candidates must be based in Paris or willing to relocate to France.

Estimated base salary: €65K–€170K annually, with meaningful equity and, for certain customer-facing roles, a performance-based variable component.

Company

Legora provides an AI-native workspace that helps legal, tax, and audit professionals analyze documents and manage end-to-end workflows.

What you will do

• Work with tax partners, audit leaders, and their teams to identify valuable use cases across tax research, advisory, evidence review, and audit documentation.
• Translate client needs into working AI workflows, validate outputs against source material and professional standards, and refine implementations with users.
• Lead demonstrations, practical training sessions, pilots, onboarding, and wider rollouts for practitioners, partners, and innovation teams.
• Define success criteria, coordinate stakeholders and timelines, and support adoption from experimentation to regular use.
• Support commercial conversations with Go-to-Market and Customer Success teams by demonstrating value, addressing objections, and identifying expansion opportunities.
• Share client needs and product gaps with Product and Engineering, and turn successful engagements into reusable templates, guides, and playbooks.

Requirements

• Practical experience in tax, audit, assurance, or a closely related advisory practice, with the ability to discuss the work credibly with experienced practitioners.
• Experience may come from a Big Four firm, another professional services firm, an in-house function, innovation, technology implementation, or consulting.
• Understanding of client deadlines, defensible conclusions, and the work behind professional reports or advice.
• Genuine curiosity about generative AI and willingness to learn new tools; software engineering experience and prior Legal Engineering experience are not required.
• Clear communication skills for explaining technical concepts, leading workshops, and handling difficult questions from partners.
• Ability to organize an engagement, keep commitments, and flag problems early.
• Understanding of professional-services commercial realities, including engagement economics, client expectations, and the balance between speed and quality.
• Initiative, responsiveness to feedback, and ability to learn quickly when facing unfamiliar problems.
• Fluent French and English, and availability to work from the Paris office five days per week.

Culture & Benefits

• Growing Tax & Audit team with autonomy and responsibility.
• Opportunities to shape ways of working and develop alongside colleagues who challenge thinking.
• Work focused on impact, high standards, direct feedback, and shared growth.
• Meaningful equity is paired with the base salary for most roles.
• Inclusive, high-performance environment committed to equal opportunity and diversity of thought and experience.