Senior Legal Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE
This role sits at the intersection of legal expertise, customer onboarding, and product development at an early-stage legal technology company. You will turn complex legal needs into reliable, AI-enabled workflows and help ensure customers are set up for success.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own client onboarding workflows, mapping each customer's commercial needs into tailored legal processes.
- Review AI-flagged legal issues across client documents and filings for accuracy and completeness.
- Translate customer feedback and lawyer needs into clear product requirements for engineering teams.
- Improve prompts, modules, and automated workflows to make legal processes more capable and reliable.
- Use CLI tools and related workflow-building tools hands-on to create and refine legal workflows.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- At least 3 years of relevant experience, with experience in legal technology, law firm innovation, an in-house legal function, or legal practice.
- A JD, practicing attorney experience, or legal technology experience that demonstrates the ability to assess legal issues, understand contracts, and review workflows.
- Experience validating AI-flagged legal issues and mapping commercial needs into custom legal workflows.
- Strong product sense, including experience turning user feedback into product requirements and improving automated workflows.
- Hands-on familiarity with AI and LLM workflows, prompt engineering, CLI tools, Claude Code, or MCP servers.
- Comfort owning problems end to end in a fast-moving startup environment.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Salary range: $150,000 to $225,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.

Employment type
FullTime

Work arrangement
No