Legal Transformer, Compliance, Professional Intelligence, DeepMind

Google•Mountain View, CA

8d•$174,000 - $252,000

About The Position

As a Legal Transformer, you will focus on the compliance legal function and help pioneer generative AI tools designed specifically for legal work. The role applies deep legal expertise to build scalable, extensible, and flexible AI-driven solutions across large volumes of data, moving beyond traditional one-off legal advice. You will bridge compliance law and technical product development, working with software developers and machine learning experts to design systems that synthesize tens of millions of pieces of unstructured, multimodal data into a cohesive, real-time story. You will help ensure the platform is auditable, allowing legal professionals to understand both its determinations and the precise, source-cited reasoning behind them. Google DeepMind is an interdisciplinary AI lab focused on advancing AI to address complex global challenges and accelerate product innovation. The company describes widespread public benefit, scientific discovery, safety, and ethics as priorities. Individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The US pay range is $174,000–$252,000, with a 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

JD, LL.B., equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.
6 years of experience practicing civil law within a law firm or an in-house compliance team.

Nice To Haves

Enthusiasm for moving from one-to-one client advisory work to building scalable, technology-driven systems that empower thousands of practitioners.
Ability to deconstruct complex legal reasoning into structured logic that can inform AI behavior and user-facing audit trails.
Ability to articulate nuanced legal requirements to technical teams and present sophisticated AI solutions clearly to legal stakeholders.
Strong passion for the intersection of law and generative AI, with a desire to redefine the boundaries of legal technology.

Responsibilities

Lead initiatives from concept to delivery, taking ownership, asking critical questions, building consensus, and proactively resolving roadblocks.
Analyze complex end-to-end compliance lifecycles to design reusable, secure generative AI features that optimize workflows while protecting sensitive data.
Provide authoritative regulatory guidance to maintain rigorous legal standards, ensure platform accuracy, and establish trust with compliance legal teams.
Collaborate with engineering, product, and UX teams to guide product goals, align technical specifications with legal standards, and resolve complex use cases.
Lead transparent AI architecture with verifiable source citations and conduct rigorous model evaluation across thousands of documents and adversarial test scenarios.