Engineer in Residence: Syntra
Core
Build an AI-native general counsel product for SMBs, starting with contract review and clause extraction to evolve into an always-on legal operations layer.
Role type
Senior IC machine-learning engineer (document AI/legal tech)
Builds
Contract ingestion pipeline, clause extraction/classification system, risk scoring engine, and review workflow layer
Domain
Legal technology / Document AI / SMB services
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Full-stack or backend engineering, production document processing systems, NLP/information extraction from unstructured text, LLMs for structured data extraction and classification, system design for high-precision outputs
Preferred skills
Legal tech or compliance tech experience, CLM tools familiarity, document AI/OCR/PDF processing, founder or founding engineer experience
Technologies
LLMs, PDF processing, OCR, CLM systems
Responsibilities
Design document processing pipelines for diverse enterprise contract formats, build extraction models for clause identification, develop risk assessment frameworks, implement review workflows integrating with legal tools, validate AI accuracy with legal design partners
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC