Legal Engineering Intern - Legal Insurance AI at PK USA INC

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

29 Aug, 26

Salary

4000.0

Posted On

01 Jun, 26

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Legal Research, Insurance Law, Contract Interpretation, Customer Success, User Research, AI Prompting, English Proficiency, German Proficiency, Document Understanding, System Evaluation, Structured Data Analysis, Client Onboarding

Industry

Description

🌟 About You You're a law student or recent law graduate fascinated by the intersection of legal work and AI. You want to go beyond classical legal careers and get hands-on with building AI systems that automate how legal insurers handle cases. You're curious about terms and conditions across jurisdictions, comfortable reading dense insurance policies, and excited about the idea that your legal expertise can directly shape how an AI product works. You learn fast, take ownership, and like working closely with a small team. 🚀 About INC INC (Iudex Non Calculat) is a pre-seed AI startup based in Zurich, building infrastructure that automates coverage checks and case handling for legal insurance companies. Legal insurance is a €16.8B European market where every case still requires 15-45 minutes of manual review. We compress that to under 2 minutes. We're backed by a paid pilot with a Swiss insurer and a founder with 120+ B2B customers at his previous AI legal tech company. We work at the intersection of LLM agent systems, document understanding, and domain-specific reasoning, where accuracy, traceability, and auditability matter. Tasks 🛠️ Your Responsibilities As a Legal Engineering Intern, you'll sit at the intersection of legal expertise, customer success, and product quality. You are the bridge between our users (claims handlers and legal insurers) and our AI system, making sure it works correctly across the complex landscape of legal insurance terms and conditions (AVBs). Legal research & commentary: Research legal insurance AVBs (Allgemeine Versicherungsbedingungen) across DACH and European markets, and produce structured commentaries that feed into our AI system's reasoning. User onboarding: Onboard new users to the coverage check product, guide them through their first cases, and make sure they reach value quickly. User interviews: Conduct structured interviews with claims handlers, legal counsel, and insurance executives to understand workflows, pain points, and unmet needs. Customer success: Support users with their day-to-day requests, troubleshoot issues, and serve as the first point of contact for the customer base. Coverage question support: Assist users with their coverage questions, helping them interpret the system's output on tricky cases and clarifying how the AI reached its conclusion. Legal events: Represent INC at legal and insurance industry events (RIAD Congress, DKM Dortmund, Handelsblatt AI in Insurance, and similar) to build relationships and stay close to the market. Legal engineering workshops: Organize and run workshops with client teams to translate their policy wordings, exclusions, and decision logic into structured inputs for our AI system. System evaluation: Evaluate the coverage check system across different terms and conditions, languages (German, French, Italian, English), and jurisdictions (Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Benelux). Build test cases from real policies, score outputs, and feed findings back to the engineering team. Quality & feedback loop: Document failure modes, edge cases, and improvement opportunities so the product gets sharper with every iteration. Collaboration: Work closely with the founder, engineering team, and domain experts; document decisions and share learnings clearly. Requirements 📌 Qualifications ✅ Minimum qualifications Law student or recent graduate: You are studying law (Bachelor or Master level) or have recently completed your legal studies, ideally with a focus on insurance law, contract law, or European law. Strong reading and drafting skills: you can digest dense legal texts and produce clear, structured commentaries. Interest in applied AI and legal tech, and a willingness to shape how an AI product reasons about legal content. Customer-oriented mindset: you enjoy talking to users, understanding their problems, and helping them succeed. Strong ownership mindset and clear communication in English. Languages: Professional proficiency in German and English. Availability ideally full-time, 6 months. On-site in Zurich at least twice per week. Swiss work permit or EU/EFTA citizenship. 🎯 Preferred qualifications Prior exposure to insurance law, legal expense insurance (Rechtsschutzversicherung), or contract interpretation. Experience working with structured data, prompts, or AI tools in a legal context. Familiarity with Swiss, German, or Austrian legal insurance markets and actors. Comfort with Notion, spreadsheets, and light technical tools (no coding required, but not afraid to learn). Additional European languages (French, Italian, Dutch). Previous experience in customer success, user research, or a client-facing legal role. Benefits 🤝 Benefits Direct impact: Your legal work shapes a product used by real insurers to handle real cases. Unique positioning: Graduate with rare experience at the intersection of law, AI, and product, a skill set that barely exists in the market today. Learning & mentorship: Hands-on exposure to how AI systems reason about legal content, how B2B SaaS is sold to insurers, and how a startup is built from the ground up. Breadth: Touch legal research, user research, customer success, events, and product evaluation in the same role. Founder access: Work directly with the founder on product, customers, and strategic decisions. Compensation: CHF 2'500-4'000 per month, depending on experience and skills. Prospect of a permanent position: Possibility of full-time employment with equity (ESOP) after a successful internship. We're excited to hear from law students and recent graduates who want to build the future of legal insurance alongside an AI startup. Apply today by pressing the Apply button.

Responsibilities

The role involves bridging the gap between legal insurers and AI systems by researching insurance terms and producing structured commentaries. Responsibilities also include user onboarding, conducting interviews with claims handlers, and evaluating the AI system's accuracy across multiple jurisdictions.