Legal Engineer

Methodfi; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI compliance firm in London seeks a Legal Engineer to develop regulatory AI agents and enhance compliance solutions. This role combines legal expertise with collaboration in an innovative tech environment. Must have a law degree and a strong interest in large language models. The position embraces a hybrid working model, requiring on-site work 4-5 days a week.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years in a relevant legal or regulatory field, such as law firm practice, or financial/compliance roles.
• Strong interest in large language models.
• No technical AI experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Develop regulatory AI agents using proprietary software tools.
• Conduct legal research and stay updated on legal developments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on AI-driven compliance solutions.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert for client-specific deployments.
• Coach and develop the legal engineering team.

Skills

Law degree

Exceptional written communication skills

Interest in LLMs

Education

Law degree

Job description

About Norm Ai

Norm Ai, the leading Legal & Compliance AI company, has a client base with a combined $30 trillion in assets under management. By turning legal code into AI code, Norm enables enterprises to move faster and more comprehensively in their legal and compliance processes with reliability and trust.

Norm’s platform combines frontier AI, proprietary legal reasoning systems, and embedded legal and regulatory expertise.

We have recently raised more than $140 million, backed by Blackstone, Bain Capital, Vanguard, Citi, New York Life, TIAA, Coatue, Craft Ventures, Henry R. Kravis (KKR co-founder), and Marc Benioff (Salesforce CEO).

Norm Ai pioneered Legal Engineering, the process that empowers lawyers to build and supervise domain‑specific AI agents with Norm’s proprietary suite of no‑code software tools. We hired dozens of lawyers from premier U.S. law firms and trained them as Legal Engineers, who specialize in Large Language Model powered legal workflows.

Norm Ai technology is deployed inside many of the largest and most consequential institutions in the world. The company is growing quickly and hiring across all teams.

This Role

As a key member of the legal staff at Norm Ai, you will provide direct input to product decisions that require legal knowledge. The Legal Engineering team leverages a proprietary internal software platform to create representations of regulations that provide the basis for our product’s AI agent capabilities. You will collaborate closely with our software engineering and executive teams to design and refine our AI‑driven compliance solutions. Your legal expertise will ensure our products meet the highest standards.

In this role, you will:

• Develop Regulatory AI Agents: You will use our proprietary, no‑code internal software tools to create representations of regulations that provide the basis for our automated compliance reviews. Legal Engineers have the opportunity to take ownership of broad regulatory areas, becoming subject‑matter experts and leading conversations with current and prospective clients.
• Regulatory Analysis: Conduct legal research and stay apprised of industry and government developments; update and tailor regulatory AI agents
• Prompt Engineering: Develop, write, and refine calls to Large Language Models, in collaboration with our AI engineering team
• Support Client‑specific Deployments: Serve as a subject‑matter expert, collaborating with our Client Engagement team to deploy the Norm Ai platform with client‑specific customizations.
• Team Leadership: Help coach and grow the legal engineering team, fostering a fast‑paced and rigorous work culture.

Skills & Experience

• Law degree
• Minimum of 3 years in a relevant legal or regulatory field, such as law firm practice, or finance, insurance or healthcare industry legal/compliance roles.
• Exceptional written communication skills.
• A strong interest in LLMs.
• Note: no technical AI experience is required for this role.

What Success Looks Like

30 Days

• Ramp up on the Norm Ai platform, especially our internal tools used for building AI Agents.
• Develop a working knowledge of key regulatory frameworks we support (e.g., SEC, FINRA, CFTC).
• Begin contributing to agent training or ruleset validation with oversight from more senior Legal Engineers.

60 Days

• Independently design and test regulatory AI agents based on public regulations and/or client internal policies.
• Collaborate with product and AI engineering teams to improve agent outputs and infrastructure.

90 Days

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of at least one AI Agent, from source interpretation to deployment.
• Demonstrate subject‑matter leadership in a core regulatory area (e.g., marketing rules, disclosure, conflicts).
• Proactively identify product improvements and contribute to the team’s future priorities.

Legal Engineer Deployments: All Legal Engineers may spend significant time on‑site at client locations as we support in‑depth AI deployments. These deployments are collaborative and high‑impact.

We embrace a hybrid model, in‑office 4-5 days per week.

If you’re interested in the role but aren’t sure whether you’re a good fit, we’d still like to hear from you.

To learn more about Norm Ai, visit our website.