Legal Engineer (Research)

GC AI • San Mateo, CA

42d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Legal Engineer, you’ll be instrumental in measuring and continually improving the substantive accuracy and quality of the legal information we provide. We're delivering a product that legal teams love, and in this role, you’ll leverage your legal experience to guide our AI toward practical excellence. You’ll set the bar for how legal AI behaves—optimizing system prompts, designing evaluations, and ensuring every output aligns with real-world legal standards. At a fast-moving, product-market-fit stage startup, your contributions won’t just be meaningful, they’ll help define our trajectory.

Requirements

• Law degree.
• License to practice law in a U.S. jurisdiction.
• 3+ years of legal experience, ideally gained in an in-house environment in a product, regulatory, or litigation counsel role.
• Deep familiarity with U.S. legal research and regulatory law.
• Experience using generative AI for legal work.
• Experience conducting evaluations of generative AI outputs.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills.
• Ability to design and interpret evaluation metrics and to abstract legal reasoning and processes into logical and repeatable steps.
• Exceptional cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration skills.
• Technologically curious with an aptitude for learning new tools, software, and skills
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Ability to work cross functionally with both GTM and engineering/product teams.

Nice To Haves

• You are already a GC AI user.
• You’re nerdy about legal tech, especially in areas like prompt engineering and quality assurance.
• You care about user experience, especially how legal professionals interact with and trust AI assistants.
• You’ve worked closely with software engineers before.
• In addition to U.S. expertise you are familiar with the law of other countries.

Responsibilities

• Design and run rigorous evaluations measuring the quality of our AI-generated outputs in order to ensure they meet the high standards expected by top-tier legal professionals.
• Review and validate product outputs for accuracy, relevance, comprehensiveness, helpfulness, etc.
• Collaborate closely with the engineering and GTM teams to identify performance gaps, diagnose their causes, and develop solutions.
• Translate nuanced, real-world legal expectations into concrete, testable prompts and evaluation criteria.
• Draft and iterate on system prompts for our various AI systems.
• Assess foundational model performance and suitability for different legal tasks.
• Build and annotate complex legal datasets and document collections.
• Serve as the legal voice of quality, advocating for precision, consistency, and clarity in AI outputs.
• Act as the bridge between technical teams and legal domain expertise, translating complex legal concepts into clear product requirements and vice versa.
• Provide domain-specific legal expertise that guides feature development and product roadmap decisions.
• Ideate new products based on your deep understanding of legal teams’ pain points.
• Participate in customer calls and feedback sessions.
• Proactively develop and continually learn new technical skills.
• Take on additional projects and tasks as needed in response to the evolving needs of a fast-growing startup.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity and healthcare
• We’re a hybrid company — many roles are remote-friendly, while some teams require meeting in person a couple of days a week in the Bay Area office.
• High-energy, joyful team environment
• Mentorship and learning opportunities
• Clear path for growth in an expanding company
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and practices
• Freedom to innovate and own crucial systems

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees