Senior AI Legal Engineer - Remote-First

Ontra, LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first policy

Team offsites

Parental leave

Retirement contributions

Phone and internet reimbursement

Learning & development resources

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Job summary

Ontra seeks a Senior Legal Engineer to focus on AI-native services and Contract Automation, reporting to the General Manager, Legal Engineering. This multifaceted role blends prompt engineering, workflow design, product advising, and hands-on building.

You will collaborate with product and delivery teams, create enablement materials, monitor AI trends, and drive improvements in efficiency using AI while maintaining human judgment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of directly relevant legal experience focusing on transactional law.
• JD, LLM, or LLB; US qualifications preferred but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product and service delivery teams to refine contract review, drafting, and negotiation workflows.
• Develop and deliver training materials (webinars, 1:1 training, self-directed courses) on contract workflows and AI use.
• Monitor markets such as legal AI, contract automation, and legal service delivery to inform workflow improvements.
• Pilot AI-first legal workflows, evaluate outputs against playbooks, measure quality and turnaround time; iterate on feedback.
• Provide technical SME consulting on AI-native services and Contract Automation in meetings with PMs, developers, and clients.

Skills

Legal experience

Communication skills

Organizational & problem-solving

AI experience

Prompt engineering

Hybrid collaboration

Client interaction

Education

J.D., LLM, or LLB

Tools

Claude

GPT

Harvey

Legora

Job description

Ontra seeks a Senior Legal Engineer to focus on AI-native services and Contract Automation, reporting to the General Manager, Legal Engineering. This multifaceted role blends prompt engineering, workflow design, product advising, and hands-on building.

You will collaborate with product and delivery teams, create enablement materials, monitor AI trends, and drive improvements in efficiency using AI while maintaining human judgment.