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Legal and Operations Engineering Lead

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-25

Core

Architect and build a scalable engineering platform to automate high-volume legal workflows (contracting, e-discovery, redlining, governance) and serve as the technical partner to General Counsel.

Role type

Senior IC engineering lead (legal operations automation)

Builds

Production legal automation stack (agents, workflows, evaluation infrastructure) and in-product legal surfaces

Domain

Legal Tech + AI Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

backend software engineering, legal concepts knowledge, building scalable systems from scratch, human-in-the-loop practices, risk calibration, translating legal workflows to engineering systems

Preferred skills

experience at AI-native/SaaS/consumer tech companies, familiarity with e-billing/CLM/matter management systems, comfort with ambiguity and rapid context-switching

Technologies

agents, workflows, evaluation infrastructure, legal tech tools, AI tools

Responsibilities

Architect the Legal and Operations Engineering platform; Own the enterprise contracting automation system end-to-end; Consolidate ad-hoc legal bots/prompts into a reusable platform; Evaluate and replace third-party tools with internal systems; Serve as technical partner to General Counsel; Act as a case study for engineering in non-engineering functions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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