--- title: 'Legal AI Researcher at Onit, Inc.' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/legal-ai-researcher-onit-inc-pune-yg2eh4462zt6' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Legal AI Researcher at Onit, Inc. - **Company:** Onit, Inc. - **Location:** Pune, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/onit/38203590-b2b7-4db6-9068-f1b868a5503f ## Job description ## About Onit We're redefining the future of legal operations through the power of AI. Our cutting-edge platform streamlines enterprise legal management, matter management, spend management and contract lifecycle processes, transforming manual workflows into intelligent, automated solutions. We’re a team of innovators using AI at the core to help legal departments become faster, smarter, and more strategic. As we continue to grow and expand the capabilities of our new AI-centric platform, we’re looking for bold thinkers and builders who are excited to shape the next chapter of legal tech. If you're energized by meaningful work, love solving complex problems, and want to help modernize how legal teams operate, we’d love to meet you. Position Summary The Legal AI Researcher is responsible for executing legal workflows in AI development with a strong focus on trust, safety, compliance, and risk validation. As a member of the product design process, the Legal AI Researcher helps shape how Onit’s AI products are built, recommending product design based on legal knowledge and research, and providing independent validation before release. 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: - Product Design Participation: Take part in the product design process from early concept through release, representing legal and trust considerations in design discussions and decisions. - 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. - Independent Validation: Perform independent validation of AI features and outputs against legal, company standards and risk requirements before release, documenting findings, exceptions, and remediation, and escalating unresolved issues. Required Skills: - 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, including the ability to explain legal requirements clearly to product and engineering teams. - Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt in Legal Tech 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. - Exposure to product design or product development processes, or to translating legal requirements into product features. Benefits & Perks That Support You: Onit offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support the whole employee at work and beyond: Health Coverage: Employee and immediate family members. Time Away: Flexible paid time off and 10 company paid holidays annually. Family Support: Exceptional paid leave for birth parents, non-birth parents, and caregivers.  Onit also offers surrogacy and adoption reimbursement. Income Protection: 100% employer-paid life and disability insurance. Additional Coverage Options: Voluntary benefits including hospital indemnity, critical illness, accident. Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Flexi, NPS. Community Engagement: One paid volunteer day each year to give back to the community. Our Commitment to Applicants We know that not everyone will check every box in a job description. At Onit, we value diversity, inclusion, and authenticity. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply. You may be exactly who we’re looking for. Onit Values Customer First - Customer success is our success. We deliver value, listen, and act on customer needs. Purposeful Innovation - Innovation fuels our growth. We harness creativity to solve problems and lead with the intentions and expertise. Win as One - Teamwork is how we win. We are accountable, act with integrity, and communicate openly. Intentional Growth - Our people are the difference. We create an environment with compelling work, impactful contributions, and career growth. ## About Onit, Inc. ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Onit is an AI-native legal operations platform that helps legal and compliance teams manage workflows, contracts, matters, and spend. - **Entity Type**: Private (late‑stage; $216.6M total funding over 11 rounds) - **Headquarters**: Atlanta, Georgia, United States - **Founded**: 2009 (company site) – some sources list 2011 (LinkedIn); conflicting reports exist. - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Legal technology (legal operations software) - **Target Customers**: B2B, primarily legal and compliance departments in enterprise, Fortune 500, and high‑growth companies - **Mission / Purpose**: To give legal teams the freedom, flexibility, and technology to run their departments on their own terms, transforming legal business processes with purpose‑built, AI‑native solutions. ## Products & Services - **Enterprise Legal Management (ELM)**: Full‑lifecycle matter, spend, and vendor management – SaaS platform - **Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)**: AI‑powered contract creation, review, negotiation, and storage - **Intake & Workfloow Automation**: Configurable service‑request portals and approval chains - **AI Agents & Assistant**: Generative‑AI tools that automate contract redlining, clause policy checks, and answers from corporate policies All products are unified under a single, adaptable framework. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$78.3M (LinkedIn estimate) – note: this is a third‑party estimate, not official. - **Total Funding**: $216.6M (11 rounds; latest round not specified) - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not disclosed in available sources (investor names not found) - **Growth Signals**: 3,000+ customers worldwide; 389 employees (+13.3% YoY); LinkedIn followers 63,694 (+50.3% YoY); multiple acquisitions; rapid scaling of AI‑native products. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI‑native Architecture**: Built from the ground up to leverage AI, not bolted‑on. - **Domain Expertise**: Created by legal professionals for legal teams – deep understanding of legal workfloows. - **Configurability**: Highly adaptable platform that allows legal departments to shape the software to their processes. - **Scale & Trust**: Trusted by over 3,000 customers including Fortune 500 enterprises – demonstrated retention and market penetration. ## Strategic Focus - **AI‑First Innovation**: Continuing to embed AI agents and generative capabilities across the platform. - **Acquisitions**: Using M&A to broaden product portfolio and accelerate growth. - **Global Expansion**: Growing presence in key regions (New Zealand, Ukaine, Uk, India) while maintaining a remote‑first culture. - **Customer Success**: Deepening relationships and driving value through automation and insights. ## Why Work Here - **Culture Highlights**: Recognized as a *Most Loved Workplace*; values include Customers First, Purposeful Innovation, Win as One, and Intentional Growth. - **Remote / Hybrid**: Remote work is embraced, monitored by performance not micro‑management. Office hubs in Atlanta, Pune, New Zealand, Ukaine, and United Kingdom. - **Benefits**: - 24‑wekks paid leave for all new parents (adoption/surrogacy included) from Day 1 - Company‑wide bonus plans (minimum 6% for all levels) - Quarterly performance reviews focused on growth dialogue - Multiple internal collaboration platforms (AwardCo, The Wave, intranet, townhalls, AMAs) - **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on modern tech stack (Microsoft‑centric, Python, Ruby on Rails), AI engineering roles visible – Senior AI Engineer, Lead Software Engineer – Python, AI Engineer, Senior Software Engineer – RoR. ## Sources 1. [onit.com/careers](https://www.onit.com/careers/); culture, benefits, and values 2. [onit.com/about](https://www.onit.com/about-onit/); company overview, history, mission, products 3. [linkedin.com/company/onit](https://www.linkedin.com/company/onit/); employee count, revenue estimate, founding year, funding 4. [mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/onit](https://mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/onit/); benefits, remote policy, values, awards 5. [onit.com/leadership](https://www.onit.com/leadership/); leadership mention (Farlekas) ## Other roles at Onit, Inc. - [Quality Assurance Engineer - Playwright](https://feeny.ai/job/quality-assurance-engineer-playwright-onit-inc-pune-epjgrneg1cj8) — Pune, India - [Senior Software Engineer Full-Stack](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-full-stack-onit-inc-pune-jxywaej6n7qv) — Pune, India - [Data Engineer (Databricks)](https://feeny.ai/job/data-engineer-databricks-onit-inc-pune-54qkr9fjc5j4) — Pune, India - [Senior Product Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-manager-onit-inc-united-states-xpt7fmaj45d2) — United States - [Sales Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/sales-engineer-onit-inc-united-states-jxhnvt564q8y) — United States - [Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-fullstack-onit-inc-pune-tpp47gp7gn80) — Pune, India - [Software Engineer - RoR (Fullstack)](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-ror-fullstack-onit-inc-pune-z075khhnywz1) — Pune, India - [Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-onit-inc-pune-w5wzqj58g9g6) — Pune, India - [Senior Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-onit-inc-pune-ghc3nmjpxvrx) — Pune, India - [Data Scientist](https://feeny.ai/job/data-scientist-onit-inc-pune-3p88bbdj8j98) — Pune, India