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.