Legal Engineer - Legal AI Startup

Lawyer who'd rather build than bill? Shape legal products that founders actually use.

A seed-stage legal-tech startup in San Francisco gives startups always-on legal support: lawyers on call, plus an AI platform that maps employment law across all 50 states, generates documents and workflows, and flags legal-health issues before they become problems. It's growing fast and is already well into seven figures in revenue. You'd be the link between customers, lawyers and engineers.

What you'll own

• Onboarding and customisation calls with startup clients
• Tailored legal workflows for each client (commercial contracts come up a lot), set up fast with the in-house LLM tools
• Scoping tickets for engineering, then owning delivery, testing and output quality
• Room to grow into head of legal engineering or a forward-deployed customer lead

Must-haves

• A JD (strongly preferred), or real legal experience at a startup or in-house
• Product-minded: you've scoped, shipped and owned a legal workflow or product, and can explain it in plain words
• Experience at a startup or a very early-stage team; this isn't a role with a playbook handed to you
• At least 3 years of experience
• Working from the San Francisco office, 9-9-5

Bonus points

• PM, solutions or legal-ops experience at a legal-tech or legal-AI company
• Ex-founder or very early employee
• Daily use of AI tools, and repeatable processes you built after doing a task once

What's in it for you

• $185k–$225k base + 0.1–0.5% equity
• A blank canvas at a small, fast-growing team
• Flights covered for the on-site, and quick decisions

Good to know

• Full-time, on-site in San Francisco, 9-9-5; no production coding required
• Sponsorship is limited (US citizens, green card holders, H-1B, O-1, TN); please share your exact status
• Process: intro call with the CEO legal interview product and workflow conversation (possibly a short assignment) on-site offer