Legal and Operations Engineering Lead
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