Onit
Legal
SeniorLegalAIResearcher
“Senior Legal AI Researcher at Onit. Skills: contract review, AI technologies, legal operations. The Senior Legal AI Researcher will collaborate with AI scientists, engineers, and legal researchers to translate legal domain knowledge into actionable model requirements for automating tasks in legal operations, contracts, and spend management. This role involves identifying process inefficiencies, contributing to quality benchmarks for legal AI, and designing internal tooling to accelerate model de”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensure the quality of AI models. Identify inefficiencies and pain points across legal processes, assessing opportunities for automation and AI-driven improvement. Contribute to evaluation design, defining quality benchmarks for legal AI and building the frameworks to measure them.
Industry & Context.
identify inefficiencies; assess opportunities
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of legal practice with a focus on contract review and negotiation. Exceptional communication skills across diverse audiences, with the ability to distil complex legal concepts for non-legal stakeholders. Demonstrated interest in and understanding of AI technologies. Ability to thrive in ambiguity.
Nice to Have
In-house experience at an enterprise organisation. Experience managing legal spend and billing. Experience collaborating with software engineers or technical teams.
What You'll Do.
The Senior Legal AI Researcher will collaborate with AI scientists
and legal researchers to translate legal domain knowledge into actionable model requirements for automating tasks in legal operations
and spend management. This role involves identifying process inefficiencies
contributing to quality benchmarks for legal AI
and designing internal tooling to accelerate model development.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate closely with AI scientists, engineers, and legal researchers to bridge legal expertise and model development. Experience collaborating with software engineers or technical teams is preferred.
Communication Scope
exceptional communication skills; distil complex legal concepts
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