Product Legal Engineer

PRODUCT LEGAL ENGINEER

Edinburgh (in-office)

WORDSMITH

Most legal teams are drowning. They’re buried under internal questions, contract reviews, policy approvals, and constant fire drills.

Wordsmith is the AI command centre for in-house legal. We combine AI, automation, and structured workflows to help legal teams operate at the speed of the businesses they support.

We’re building at the frontier of legal technology, and our Legal Engineering team sits at the centre of how the product actually works.

WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT

This is not a support or advisory role. You’ll sit inside the product team and help define how the product behaves.

You’ll take how strong legal operators think and work, and turn that into systems, workflows, and AI-driven behaviour that scale across every customer.

AI is core to how we build. You’ll be expected to use it, test it, and push it — shaping how it’s applied across real workflows.

You won’t just describe legal work. You’ll define how it gets done.

THE ROLE

You’ll own a domain within the product, going deep on workflows, edge cases, and customer needs.

Working closely with engineers, product managers, and designers, you’ll translate legal expertise into product features, playbooks, and systems.

This role blends legal knowledge, product thinking, and hands-on building.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Build and Own

- Build, curate, and maintain legal workflows, playbooks, and product logic

- Translate legal expertise into structured, scalable systems

- Continuously improve product quality based on real-world use

Product Development

- Contribute to product specs, prototypes, and feature design

- Work closely with engineering and design to ship new capabilities

- Help define how AI is applied across workflows and use cases

Testing and Evaluation

- Design and run testing protocols to assess accuracy, reliability, and usability

- Identify gaps, edge cases, and improvement areas

- Ensure features are fit for real...