Legal Engineer

Job overview

The Legal Engineer role is onsite in San Francisco, CA, with stated annual pay of $150,000–$225,000. The client is a legal technology company combining legal expertise, AI, and purpose-built software to provide startups with an in-house legal function. The role translates customer commercial needs and legal requirements into repeatable platform workflows and product improvements. By validating AI-flagged legal issues and refining automated workflows, the Legal Engineer supports accurate contract work and the product’s quality and customer experience.

What you'll do

• Map customer commercial needs into repeatable legal workflows on the platform
• review, quality-check, and validate AI-flagged legal issues for contract accuracy and completeness
• translate client feedback and legal requirements into product features for engineering
• refine prompts, modules, and automated AI workflows using CLI, Claude Code, and Model Context Protocol tools.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

legal engineer

san francisco ca

success matcher recruitment

$150k–$225k/year

legal technology

contract review

ai quality assurance

legal workflows

product optimization

claude code

model context protocol

3–8 years experience

in-office

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Meaningful seed-stage equity and opportunity to shape product architecture and customer experience.

Why this role

Early key hire working directly with co-founders; meaningful seed-stage equity; role sits at the intersection of legal practice and AI workflows and does not require being a software engineer.

About the employer

Success Matcher Recruitment is hiring for this role. Industry: Offices of Lawyers. Sector: 54.