Legal Engineer – AI-Enabled Legal Delivery (Senior Associate/Manager)

About the role

PwC is looking for a Legal Engineer to join its transformation team and help design AI‑enabled legal services. The role works closely with lawyers and stakeholders to embed AI into delivery workflows, improving quality, efficiency and consistency while upholding the firm’s high standards of confidentiality, security and professional judgment.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement AI‑enabled delivery workflows for legal workstreams such as contract review, due‑diligence acceleration, document analysis, clause extraction, compliance triage and knowledge retrieval.
• Build and maintain prompting standards and reusable prompt libraries, including playbooks tailored to specific legal use cases.
• Establish evaluation and quality frameworks for AI‑assisted work, covering human‑in‑the‑loop review, sampling, testing, accuracy criteria, escalation paths and traceability.
• Identify and prioritize AI use cases with lawyers and business stakeholders, defining target workflows, data inputs, controls and measurable success criteria.
• Support selection, configuration and adoption of AI and legal‑tech tools, coordinating with internal IT, knowledge, PMO functions and external providers.
• Contribute to the development of new AI‑enabled client offerings from concept and pilot to operationalised delivery.
• Promote responsible AI use aligned with confidentiality, data protection, security and professional obligations, embedding governance into everyday delivery.

Required profile

• Strong AI/technology capability combined with a delivery‑oriented mindset suitable for a leading law‑firm environment.
• Hands‑on expertise in agentic AI, including tool use, orchestration, multi‑step workflows and guardrails.
• Proven experience designing and deploying AI‑supported workflows in regulated, high‑stakes or quality‑critical settings with robust controls and risk management.
• Ability to translate legal requirements into technical specifications and guide stakeholders through AI integration.

Required skills

• Agentic AI implementation and orchestration
• AI workflow design and deployment
• Prompt engineering and prompt library management
• Legal‑tech tool selection and configuration