2027 Legal Engineer Intern

About the role

This 10-week Summer 2027 internship places you on Schonfeld’s Legal team, combining legal practice with technology. You will use AI tools to build an investor-documentation dashboard, develop legal playbooks and knowledge-management systems, and automate workflows while gaining exposure to funds, corporate, trading-document and portfolio-management legal work.

Responsibilities

• Design and build an investor-documentation dashboard with colleagues across functions.
• Create a single view of investor commitments held across multiple documents.
• Develop legal playbooks capturing the team’s negotiating positions and institutional knowledge.
• Apply AI tools to automate, organize and improve legal workflows.
• Take ownership of knowledge-management tools and make sound judgments about information organization.
• Complete one-day rotations across Legal sub-teams covering funds, corporate, trading documents and portfolio management.

Internship Experience

• Work on a practical tool intended to deliver lasting value to the Legal team.
• Collaborate with a dedicated manager and mentor throughout the internship.
• Attend learning sessions with senior leaders, skills workshops and networking events.
• Gain insight into how in-house legal work supports an investment platform.