Visiting Engineer: General Counsel

career•Mountain View, CA

10d•Onsite

About The Position

In-house legal teams are drowning in contract volume, compliance obligations, and cross-functional requests — but legal headcount doesn't scale with company growth. This role is to build an AI-native general counsel product for SMBs: starting with contract review and clause extraction, and growing into the always-on legal operations layer that sits between operators and outside firms.

Requirements

Strong full-stack or backend engineering skills. You have built and shipped production systems that process complex documents.
Experience with document processing, NLP, or information extraction from unstructured text.
Hands-on experience building with LLMs, particularly for structured data extraction, classification, or reasoning tasks.
Ability to build systems where precision matters. Legal teams need to trust the output, so false positive management is critical.
Ability to work autonomously and make product and architecture decisions without waiting for direction.

Nice To Haves

Experience in legal tech, compliance tech, or regulated industry software.
Familiarity with contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools or legal workflow systems.
Background in document AI, OCR, or PDF processing pipelines.
Founder or founding engineer experience building for knowledge worker workflows.

Responsibilities

Design the document processing pipeline for handling the full diversity of enterprise contract formats.
Build extraction models that identify and classify contract clauses with precision high enough for legal teams to trust.
Develop a risk assessment framework that compares incoming contracts against company playbooks and approved clause libraries.
Implement a review workflow that integrates with existing legal tools (CLMs, matter management systems, email).
Work with in-house legal design partners to validate accuracy and build trust in AI-assisted contract review.