Senior Legal Engineer - Ontra

About Ontra

Ontra is a leader in AI-powered solutions for the private markets, automating critical workflows across the fund lifecycle. Leveraging industry-leading AI and extensive contract data, Ontra transforms unstructured data into actionable intelligence, enabling firms to accelerate contracts, streamline compliance, and automate entity management. Trusted by over 1,000 global GPs, investment banks, law firms, and advisors, Ontra empowers firms to focus on what matters most.

Our Culture

Ontra fosters a remote-first environment where individuals have ownership from day one. We are a team of sharp, collaborative, and supportive individuals who are passionate about AI and its application in legal work. Curiosity and a commitment to each other's success are core to our values.

About the Role

Ontra is seeking a Senior Legal Engineer to focus on our AI-native services and Contract Automation businesses. This multifaceted role involves prompt engineering, legal workflow design, product advising, and building AI-powered legal solutions. You will collaborate with product and service delivery teams, and clients to develop AI-powered legal workflows, create enablement materials, monitor industry trends, and drive operational efficiency through AI.

What You'll Do

• Product Development Collaboration: Work with Product and service delivery teams to develop and refine contract review, drafting, and negotiation workflows.
• Enablement Material Creation: Develop and deliver training materials (webinars, 1:1 training, self-directed courses) for employees and legal network members on contract workflows and AI use.
• Market Monitoring: Track trends in legal AI, contract automation, and legal service delivery to inform workflow improvements.
• Efficiency Initiatives: Pilot AI-first legal workflows, evaluate outputs against legal playbooks, and measure quality and turnaround time. Experiment with prompts and prototypes, and iterate quickly.
• Stakeholder Consultation: Serve as a technical subject matter expert, providing consulting support on AI-native services and Contract Automation projects, and participating in meetings with product managers, development teams, and clients.

What You'll Bring

• Experience: 3+ years of directly relevant legal experience with a focus on transactional law. Experience drafting, reviewing, or negotiating commercial contracts (NDAs, vendor contracts) and conducting M&A due diligence is a plus. Experience in private practice or in-house at an investment bank or asset manager is also a plus.
• Education: JD, LLM, or LLB (US qualifications preferred but not mandatory).
• Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; customer-facing experience is advantageous.
• Skills: Demonstrated organizational excellence, high ownership, proactive problem-solving, teamwork, and results orientation.
• AI Experience: Hands-on use of AI tools (e.g., Claude, GPT, Harvey, Legora) in professional work. Ability to refine prompts, check outputs for accuracy, and recognize when human legal judgment is needed.
• AI Workflow Building: Experience building reusable AI skills or custom workflows, or experimenting with tools like Codex or Claude Code is preferred. Coding experience is not required.
• Hybrid Schedule: Willingness to work 3 days per week (typically Tuesday-Thursday) in our NYC office for direct collaboration with attorneys and engineers.

Hiring Locations

We currently hire exclusively in the following locations:

• Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington
• Hong Kong
• United Kingdom

Benefits Snapshot

• Remote-first working policy with office hubs in NYC, Santa Barbara, and London.
• Twice yearly team offsites for in-person collaboration.
• Paid flexible time off policy.
• Paid parental leave and benefits.
• Employer-supported retirement contributions (varying by country).
• Monthly phone and internet reimbursement.
• Company-sponsored learning and development resources, department budgets for professional development, and a robust onboarding program.
• Various options for medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Travel

Occasional travel is required, including at least twice per year for team and group off-sites. Additional travel may be required based on role and business needs.

Inclusivity

Ontra is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for persons with disabilities. Please contact people@ontra.ai if accommodation is needed during the application or interview process.

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