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 l …