Legal Engineer

Legal Engineer

Location: Pune

Role Summary

The Legal Engineer is responsible for executing legal workflows in AI development with a strong focus on trust, safety, compliance, and risk validation. Working under the guidance of Senior and Principal Legal Engineers, this role supports the ethical development of AI, ensures legal risk is documented and mitigated, and contributes to internal compliance, audits, and workflow execution. The position also encourages professional development and cross-functional collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Legal Workflow Execution: Organise baselines, define research methodologies, and support structured execution of legal AI workflows.
• Compliance & Reporting Support: Assist in audits, prepare privacy statements, model factsheets, and maintain audit logs.
• AI Risk & Validation Tasks: Conduct ethical, legal, and operational risk assessments while maintaining AI risk registry and validating outputs for compliance.
• Trust & Safety Integration: Monitor ongoing legal and risk developments, initiate steps to maintain compliance, and feed findings into trust frameworks.
• Prompt Engineering Support: Contribute to prompt development and iterative improvements in legal AI services.
• Jurisdictional Research: Research and summarise AI regulations relevant to product deployment regions.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with AI engineering team to deliver legally valid and trustworthy AI solutions.
• Learning & Development: Learn from senior team members and work towards higher-impact roles.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Legal degree or equivalent legal/LegalOps experience
• Background in legal matter or spend management
• Strong analytical, documentation, and organisational skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities
• Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt in LegalTech environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of AI compliance and legal risk principles
• Experience in prompt engineering or legal validation of AI
• Exposure to legal audits, AI fairness, privacy, or regulatory frameworks
• Prior client presentations or compliance documentation experience

About Onit:

Onit creates solutions that transform best practices into smarter workflows, better processes, and operational efficiencies. We do this for legal, compliance, sales, IT, HR and finance departments. We specialize in enterprise legal management, matter management, spend management, contract management and legal holds. We also specialize in AI/ML (NLP) based models for our platform for contract reviews.

Onit partners with businesses to build custom enterprise-wide software solutions that can be implemented quickly, are easy to use, and drive better decisions.