Legal Engineer - Chicago

Join Our Team as a Legal Engineer at Axiom
Location:
Chicago

We are currently seeking an experienced Legal Engineer to lead the design and development of a practical, scalable enterprise risk taxonomy and operating model for a large, complex organizations.

• Lead the development of a practical risk operating model spanning Legal, Engineering, Privacy, Compliance, AI Governance, and business functions.
• Assess how risk is currently identified, classified, assessed, owned, governed, monitored, and evidenced across the organization.
• Inventory existing risk terminology, categories, classifications, tags, fields, and data structures across current tools and business processes.
• Interview key stakeholders across Legal, Privacy, Compliance, business teams, and AI Governance to understand current practices, requirements, pain points, and future-state needs.
• Identify inconsistencies, duplication, gaps, unclear ownership, and opportunities for standardization across existing risk processes.
• Design an enterprise risk ontology/taxonomy establishing clear definitions and relationships across:
• Risk domains and categories.
• Risk types and attributes.
• Controls and mitigations.
• Legal and regulatory obligations and requirements.
• Processes, systems, owners, and supporting evidence.
• Translate the taxonomy into an actionable operating model defining roles, responsibilities, decision rights, governance structures, escalation pathways, and ongoing maintenance processes.

• Experience in legal engineering, legal operations, enterprise risk management, GRC, compliance operations, or legal technology
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• Strong understanding of risk taxonomies, ontologies, control frameworks, governance models, and structured data.
• Experience mapping complex legal, privacy, compliance, AI, or regulatory requirements into operational workflows and technology systems.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct current-state assessments and design scalable future-state processes and operating models.
• Experience working across Legal, Engineering, Privacy, Compliance, Product, and business stakeholders.
• Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder interviewing, process mapping, and requirements-gathering skills.
• Ability to translate legal and risk concepts into structured fields, classifications, workflows, controls, evidence requirements, and reporting structures.
• Experience implementing or designing workflows within GRC, legal technology, compliance, risk management, or enterprise workflow platforms
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• Strong project management skills, including roadmap development, stakeholder coordination, issue tracking, and executive-level communication.

The estimated total compensation for full-time Axiom attorney roles is $,000 per year and for non-attorney roles is $71, per year. Compensation decisions are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, certifications, location, and business needs.

• health, dental, and vision insurance
• paid holidays and PTO
• flexible work arrangements
• professional development opportunities and tools

For over 25 years, Axiom has pioneered the alternative legal services industry, now serving more than 1,500 legal departments globally with our unique blend of world-class legal talent and advanced AI tools, delivering innovative solutions ranging from that combine top-tier talent with cutting-edge technology. We tackle complex legal matters across 12 practice areas for clients ranging from Fortune 100 to SMBs, empowering our legal professionals to engage in meaningful work that advances their careers.

Our Talent NPS score of +71% and our Client NPS score of +64% highlight our commitment to excellence (Reported scores were Axiom’s average for 2025 – the legal industry average NPS score is +35%). Join our forward-thinking community where you’ll keep your career dynamic and multi-faceted, be part of a company that values agility, collaboration, and excellence, and love both the law and your life.

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