R&D Attorney

GC AI

$120K — $150K *
US-Anywhere
+ 3 other locationsRemote
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Law degree and license to practice law in a U.S. jurisdiction.
  • 5+ years of legal experience, with significant in-house experience.
  • Expertise in areas such as corporate-commercial law, contract drafting, regulatory counseling, privacy, compliance, employment, or litigation.
  • Experience with generative AI in legal applications and evaluating its outputs.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to design metrics and interpret results.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement rigorous evaluations for AI-generated legal outputs.
  • Review and validate product outputs for accuracy and relevance.
  • Collaborate with engineering and go-to-market teams to identify and address performance gaps.
  • Advocate for quality and precision in AI outputs from a legal perspective.
  • Translate complex legal concepts into actionable product requirements.
  • Guide feature development and product roadmap with domain-specific legal expertise.
  • Identify and ideate new products addressing legal teams' pain points.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with hybrid options for local residents.
  • Opportunity to work in a fast-paced startup environment and influence legal AI standards.
  • Possibility to shape innovative products that improve legal workflows.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams, enhancing professional growth.
  • Engagement in cutting-edge technology that transforms the legal industry.
Full Job Description
About The Role

As an R&D Attorney, you will shape the accuracy, reliability, and quality of AI outputs that hundreds of legal teams use in daily work. You will use your legal experience to guide GC AI toward practical excellence by designing legal evaluations, improving system prompts, validating outputs against real-world legal standards, and translating substantive expertise into product improvements that build user trust.At a fast-moving, product-market-fit stage startup, your work will help raise the bar for how AI is tested in legal workflows and define the future of the leading legal AI platform for in-house teams

What You'll Do
  • Design and run rigorous evaluations measuring the quality of our AI-generated outputs in order to ensure they meet the high standards expected by top-tier legal professionals.
  • Review and validate product outputs for accuracy, relevance, comprehensiveness, helpfulness, etc.
  • Collaborate closely with the engineering and GTM teams to identify performance gaps, diagnose their causes, and develop solutions.
  • Serve as the legal voice of quality, advocating for precision, consistency, and clarity in AI outputs.
  • Bridge technical teams and legal domain expertise, translating legal concepts into product requirements and product concepts back into legal terms.
  • Act as the bridge between technical teams and legal domain expertise, translating complex legal concepts into clear product requirements and vice versa.
  • Provide domain-specific legal expertise that guides feature development and product roadmap decisions.
  • Ideate new products based on a deep understanding of legal teams' pain points.


What You've Done
  • Law degree and license to practice law in a U.S. jurisdiction.
  • 5+ years of legal experience, with meaningful in-house experience required.
  • Substantive depth in one or more areas of in-house legal work, such as corporate-commercial or transactional law, contract drafting and negotiation, product or regulatory counseling, privacy, compliance, employment, fintech or litigation work.
  • Experience using generative AI for legal work and evaluating generative AI outputs.
  • Strong analytical skills, including the ability to design metrics, interpret evaluation results, and turn legal reasoning into logical, repeatable steps.
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to work closely with Engineering, Product, and GTM teams.


Nice to Have
  • You are already a GC AI user.
  • You are nerdy about legal tech, especially prompt engineering and quality assurance.
  • You care about user experience, especially how legal professionals interact with and trust AI assistants.
  • You have worked closely with software engineers before.
  • Ability to design and interpret evaluation metrics and to abstract legal reasoning and processes into logical, repeatable steps.
A Note On Pace

We're building something new in a once-in-a-generation shift in technology and the legal industry, so we move at a relentless pace. We expect urgency, ownership, and good judgment even when things aren't perfectly clear. If you need structure and consensus to do your best work, this isn't the right place for you. If you thrive in ambiguity and growth, work with intensity, and want real responsibility, keep reading. We're excited to meet you.

Location Policy

This is a remote role unless you fall within the following parameters. If you live within approximately 50 miles of our San Mateo, CA or Provo, UT office, the position follows a hybrid schedule with in-office days on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

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