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.
