Legal Technology Engineer

About the role:

Samsaras Legal team is seeking a technically skilled builder to lead the development implementation and maintenance of the tools and systems that power our legal workflows and AI initiatives.

Our Legal team helps support Samsara by providing accessible business-oriented legal guidanceachieved through creative problem-solving excellence in execution and ethical empathetic partnership across the company. We cover many areas from commercial contracting to product counseling intellectual property employment law public policy corporate transactions and everything in between and we are powered by an innovative legal operations function that is focused on reimagining how legal work gets done. We value intensity pace and curiositymoving quickly to deliver clear practical solutions while continuously improving how we support the business.

This Legal Tech Engineer role sits directly within the Legal team and acts as the technical bridge between lawyers legal operations and IT. Youll design develop and operate secure scalable applications automations and AI workflows that transform manual legal work into efficient production-grade solutions. If youre passionate about applying technology and AI to solve complex challenges and scale a modern legal function this is a unique opportunity to make a direct measurable impact across Legal and the broader business.

The successful candidate will be based in Bangalore India and empowered to play a key role in supporting Samsaras global legal operations.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact helping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores reduce emissions and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work this role wont be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• Youre energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara we win together celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-calibre team that will encourage you to do your best.

In this role you will:

• Partner with Legal team members and cross-functional stakeholders (including IT and others) to design build and maintain legal tech solutions that enhance how we deliver legal advice to the business streamline legal workflows improve data quality and drive measurable productivity gains.
• Act as a key voice in roadmap planning experimentation frameworks and modeling strategy discussions.
• Identify gaps in data tools and processes and lead initiatives to close them.
• Develop and deploy AI-powered tools and automations that transform core legal processes such as legal intake and triage self-serve legal help knowledge retrieval legal research litigation and outside counsel management contract review and management and document drafting analysis and translation.
• Integrate legal systems with core enterprise platforms (e.g. Google Suite Slack Salesforce Zendesk NetSuite and others) to ensure seamless data flow scalability and reliability.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies staying current on advancements in AI automation and legal technology and proactively identifying opportunities for innovation and efficiency.
• Enable and support end users through documentation training technical support and troubleshooting to ensure adoption and smooth operation of all legal tech systems.
• Champion role model and embed Samsaras cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success Build for the Long Term Adopt a Growth Mindset Be Inclusive Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Bachelors degree or comparable work experience.
• 7 years of relevant experience with building and scaling production-grade enterprise applications and integrations with strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to independently design and deliver solutions with little or no technical guidance.
• Hands-on experience with large language model (LLM) applications including prompt engineering retrieval-augmented generation and related AI workflows.
• Proficiency in coding in Python particularly for scripting data manipulation and interacting with APIs.
• Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases including data modeling and query optimization.

Proficiency with low-code / no-code automation platforms (e.g. Workato UiPath Zapier etc.) core enterprise platforms (e.g. Google Suite Slack Salesforce Zendesk NetSuite and others) AWS and similar platforms and data warehouses (e.g Databricks Snowflake Google BigQuery Amazon Redshift).Strong problem-solving mindset and curiosity about how technology especially AI can improve legal processes.Excellent collaboration and communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to translate complex business workflows into scalable reliable technical solutions delivering iterative improvements with measurable outcomes.
• Based in Bangalore India.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Strong product mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver results in fast-paced cross-functional environments.
• Experience working with legal technology legal operations or adjacent platforms such as contract lifecycle management e-discovery e-billing and others (e.g. Ironclad Brightflag HighQ Onit etc.).
• Understanding of enterprise security privacy and data governance principles and how they apply to legal systems and workflows.
• Experience with fine-tuning smaller language models or a deep understanding of model evaluation techniques beyond prompt engineering.

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