R&D Attorney

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.

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.
• 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.
• You have the 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.

Equal Opportunity Employment

GC AI is an equal opportunity employer that supports workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity/expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, or any other protected class. GC AI is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Compensation Range

$150K - $240K