Legal Engineer (Immigration)

Role overview

Apply removal-defense legal expertise to the design and rollout of technology for immigration practices. You’ll work with product and engineering teams to shape case workflows and AI-assisted tools, then partner with attorneys and staff to configure and improve those tools in day-to-day practice. The role combines legal subject-matter judgment, hands-on workflow design, and customer training; programming experience is not required.

Responsibilities

- Map removal-defense matters from intake and notice review through hearings, relief applications, appeals, and bond proceedings, and translate that knowledge into product requirements and acceptance criteria. - Create and refine workflows, prompts, templates, and quality checks for immigration filings, evidence materials, and research. - Build representative evaluation sets and assess tool outputs using practitioner judgment, with clear attention to when attorney review is necessary. - Keep product guidance aligned with changes in policy, court practice, and agency guidance, working with legal data specialists. - Work with attorneys, paralegals, and intake teams to find workflow bottlenecks, configure the platform, deliver training, and track adoption and outcomes. - Document repeatable configuration and support practices, and bring partner feedback into product planning.

Requirements

- J.D. and active admission to at least one U.S. state bar. - At least 3 years practicing removal defense, including responsibility for an immigration court caseload and experience with hearings, relief applications, and appeals. - Familiarity with federal court work for immigration clients, such as habeas petitions or mandamus actions. - Practical comfort with technology, such as building legal workflows, templates, or automations, configuring case management tools, or using generative AI in legal work. - Sound judgment about AI risks in high-stakes legal practice and which tasks require attorney oversight. - Ability to communicate clearly with both legal professionals and engineers, and to set priorities in an evolving environment.

Benefits and work setup

Healthcare covers the employee in full and dependents at 50% under the described plan. The package also includes 20 vacation days, 11 federal holidays, birthday leave, a 401(k) match of up to 2% of salary, early-stage share options, a high-spec laptop, and team activities. Employees may work from anywhere for one month.