Onit’s AI Labs are building custom AI models to automate tasks in legal operations, contracts, and spend management. We’re looking for an ambitious and experienced lawyer with an interest in AI who can be a subject matter expert that ensures the quality of our models.

### Responsibilities

Embedded within the Models team, you will collaborate closely with AI scientists, engineers, and legal researchers to bridge legal expertise and model development.

Translate legal domain knowledge into actionable model requirements

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

Design and test internal tooling to accelerate model development workflows

Mentor junior legal ai researchers on legal concepts and best practices

### What we’re looking for:

5+ years of legal practice with a focus on contract review and negotiation, including strong familiarity with the full contract lifecycle and its stakeholders

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

In-house experience at an enterprise organisation (preferred)

Experience managing legal spend and billing (preferred)

Senior Legal AI Researcher

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Onit, Inc.