# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Legora

- Company: Legora
- What the company does: Legora is the collaborative AI powering lawyers to review and research faster, draft smarter, and advise with precision. Legora adapts to your ways of working, unlocking team and machine collaboration at scale. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://legora.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $237K to $321K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/legora/f76a3939-895d-4203-9322-927bae45f533
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/legora-senior-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll work directly with our largest enterprise customers to understand their needs and build the software that connects Legora to their systems and workflows.

## What they're looking for

- 5-7+ years of software engineering experience , with recent, hands-on ownership of production software and clear responsibility for technical decisions and delivery
- Strong software engineering fundamentals. You can independently design, build, test, and ship reliable software, and work effectively in an existing product codebase
- Comfortable leading technical conversations with customers. You can explain decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and nontechnical stakeholders
- Experienced in taking ambiguous problems across multiple teams and turning them into working solutions. You can point to what you decided, built, and delivered
- Strong product judgment. You understand the problem behind a request and can balance immediate customer needs with maintainability and broader product value
- Able to prioritise and deliver without detailed direction. You set realistic expectations, surface problems early, and take responsibility for outcomes

Tags: Engineering