Paralegal / Legal Engineer

Dust is an enterprise AI platform for creating, sharing, and operating agents connected to company knowledge, tools, and team workflows.

Series BRecently funded40 current maintainers40 active leads6 lead step-downs
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About Dust

Dust provides a multiplayer AI platform where organizations connect models, internal data, and business tools so people and AI agents can collaborate in shared, governed workflows.

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About the Role

You will identify legal bottlenecks and build workflows, templates and automations using Dust and other tools. You will also draft, review and redline commercial agreements, support negotiations and deal execution under lawyer supervision, conduct legal research and flag privacy, security and AI issues to the right lawyers.

Requirements

  • Legal training such as a law degree, paralegal qualification or equivalent experience
  • Some paralegal, legal assistant, commercial contracts or legal operations experience is helpful; open to strong early-career candidates
  • Clear legal writing, research and issue-spotting skills
  • Interest or experience in process design, automation, no-code/low-code tools, AI workflows or contract-management systems
  • Business-standard English
  • Business-standard French is a strong advantage
  • Willingness to travel to the US or Paris from time to time

Responsibilities

  • Identify recurring legal bottlenecks and design better ways to deliver legal support
  • Translate legal rules and playbooks into workflows, templates, structured guidance and automations
  • Build and improve legal workflows including intake, contract review and approvals
  • Test workflows, gather feedback, document and iterate
  • Build controls into processes including review points, escalation paths and confidentiality safeguards
  • Draft, review and redline NDAs, SaaS agreements, MSAs, order forms, DPAs, vendor contracts and partnership agreements
  • Support negotiation and deal execution with Sales, GTM and other teams under lawyer supervision
  • Identify legal, privacy, data protection, security and AI issues and escalate to the right lawyer
  • Conduct legal research and prepare issue summaries
  • Create and improve templates, playbooks and legal knowledge resources
  • Maintain systems that make matter status, contract obligations and deadlines visible
  • Work with the General Counsel, Commercial Counsel and external counsel

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Potential England & Wales training contract pathway