SATIC - Legal Engineer: AI & Knowledge (LEAH)

12 Months ago • 1-3 Years
Legal

Job Description

PwC is seeking a Legal Engineer for its South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC). This role involves transforming legal know-how into reliable Leah experiences, organizing playbooks, designing agent-assisted workflows, and supporting testing and adoption. The engineer will use AI to address commercial drafting and contracting challenges, making it ideal for legal professionals interested in applying technology to everyday legal work.
Good To Have:
  • Experience with tools like Leah, Harvey, or Legora
Must Have:
  • Gather and structure legal rules, examples, and language.
  • Draft clear problem statements and use cases for AI tools.
  • Design and refine user experiences, testing with real examples.
  • Create guides, FAQs, and videos for self-service.
  • Define requirements and work with engineers to integrate solutions.
  • 1-3 years experience in legal, contracting, or legal ops.
  • Strong analysis and drafting skills.
  • Comfortable working with structured information.
  • Curiosity about AI-enabled tools and decision-making support.
  • Confident communicator in plain English.

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Management Level

Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives.

In contract lifecycle management technology (CLM) at PwC, you will specialise in providing consulting services for implementing CLM technology solutions. You will have extensive experience in various CLM technologies.

Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

  • Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
  • Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
  • Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
  • Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
  • Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
  • Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
  • Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
  • Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.

About PWC SATIC

South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC) is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human led, technology enabled professional services, working with clients to transform their business and make it fit for the future.

We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, who see technology as a way to enable and drive human innovation and who want to be a part of a community of solvers, to tackle the biggest challenges in society.

Summary

Turn legal know‑how into simple, reliable Leah experiences. You’ll organise playbooks, policies, and examples; help design agent‑assisted workflows; and support testing, training, and adoption.

You’ll be using AI to address commercial drafting, renegotiations, and contracting challenges. Great fit for lawyers, paralegals, contract analysts, or legal ops professionals who enjoy applying technology to everyday legal work. Experience with tools like Leah, Harvey, or Legora is helpful but not required.

Key responsibilities

  • Gather and structure the rules, examples, and language legal teams rely on.
  • Draft clear problem statements and use cases that respective AI tool can support.
  • Help design and refine the user experience; test with real examples and iterate.
  • Create guides, FAQs, and short videos so people can self‑serve with confidence.
  • Define requirements and work with engineers to connect solutions to the client’s existing tools when needed.

Experience & skills

  • 1–3 years in legal (law firm or in‑house), contracting, legal ops.
  • Strong analysis and drafting; comfortable working with structured information.
  • Curiosity about AI‑enabled tools and how they support decision‑making
  • Confident communicator who can explain “how and why” in plain English.

Attributes

  • Curious, patient, and precise.
  • User‑focused; balances quality with pace.
  • Collaborative and open to feedback.

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

November 9, 2025

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