Forward Deployed Lawyer - Eudia for Government

Eudia Counsel; Washington; On-site; USD 180,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Full benefits

Job summary

Eudia is seeking a licensed attorney to serve as the human-AI interface embedded with DoD customer facilities, including SCIFs, delivering AI-enabled legal workflows that accelerate throughput and scale operations.

You will leverage TS/SCI clearance and DoD/JAG experience to shape government product roadmaps, own complex matters, and train teams across legal, IT, and operations. Equity and full benefits accompany a competitive base salary.

Qualifications

• J.D. or equivalent legal qualification.
• Active TS/SCI clearance or strong eligibility to obtain one.
• Meaningful experience inside the DoD, JAG, or cleared government legal environments.
• Proficiency with AI tools and using technology to scale legal output.
• Mindset of a force multiplier: impact through the team.
• Ability to manage complex legal matters in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Deploy AI-driven legal workflows embedded with government customers.
• Drive design and iteration of AI-enabled workflows to compress cycles.
• Build trusted relationships with government legal leadership.
• Surface high-value use cases and feed back to product teams.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with government growth, product, and engineering teams.
• Train government teams to adopt AI tools effectively.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

J.D. or equivalent

AI tooling proficiency

Legal strategic impact

Strong communication

Education

J.D. or equivalent legal qualification

Tools

AI platforms

Job description

AboutEudia

Eudiais redefining legal work through AI-powered Augmented Intelligence,enabling the world’s most consequential legal teams to move faster, decide smarter, andoperateat a scale thatwaspreviously impossible. Backed by $105M in Series A funding led by General Catalyst, we are building the category-defining platform thatcombinesAI-driven automation with deep legalexpertise, transforming legal departments into strategic engines of institutional power.

We move fast. Our teams ship solutions in daysdelivering measurable impact for organizations that cannot afford towait. We are now bringing that same velocity and precision to the national security and defense communities, where the stakes arehighestand the need for AI-enabled legal capacity is most acute.

We are a team of builders, operators, and problem-solvers who believe the future of legal work will be won by those who harness AI as a force multiplier. If you have served the mission, understand the operational tempo of the Department ofWar, and are ready to bringcutting-edgeAI to the legal teams that protect nationalsecurity,wewant to meet you.

Opportunity for Impact

This is not a staff attorney role. As an FDL, you are the human-AI interface for some of the most important legal work in the federal government. You will deploy Eudia’s platform to multiply the throughput ofDoWlegal teams compressing weeks of work into hours, enabling smaller legal offices to punch far above their weight, and building AI-powered workflows that become institutional capability. You will also help shape Eudia’s government product roadmap from the front lines.

About the Role

You will be embedded on-site at aDoWcustomer facility,operatinginside thecustomer’senvironment, including SCIF settings whererequiredwhile staying tightly connected to Eudia’s product, engineering, and government growth teams.

This role is built for a lawyer who hasoperatedinside theDoW, understands how government legal officesactually work, and is ready to be the person who brings AI-enabled legal practice to the institutions that need it most.

Key Responsibilities

• Mission-Critical Solution Deployment: Serve as the primary AI legal expert embedded withDoWcustomers. Translate the customer’s legal workflows, mission requirements, and institutional knowledge into AI-powered solutions that deliver measurable throughput gains.
• Legal Throughput Multiplication:Help drive the design, build, and iterationofAI-enabled workflows that compress legal work cyclessuchascontract review, legal research, regulatory compliance, FOIA, litigation support,from days to hours. You are the one who makes the impossiblefeelroutine.
• Trusted Advisor to Government Legal Leadership: Build trusted relationships with the senior attorneys, JAGs, and general counsel offices you are embedded with. Understand their pain points deeply enough toanticipatewhat they need before they ask.
• Product Intelligence: Act as the eyes and ears for Eudia’s product and engineering teams inside acleared, operational environment. Surface high-value use cases, test new capabilities in the field, and bring back the signal that shapes thegovernmentproduct roadmap.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Stay tightly connected toEudia’sgovernment growth, product, and engineering teams. Contribute to proposal development, task order execution, and the continuous improvement of Eudia’s government platform.
• Knowledge Transfer & Enablement: Train and enable government legal teams to adopt AI tools confidently. Build internal champions. Leave every engagement stronger than you found it.

What We’re Looking For

• J.D. or equivalent legal qualification.
• Active TS/SCI clearance, ora demonstratedand strong eligibility to obtain one. Candidates with existing clearances will be prioritized.
• Meaningful experience working directly within the Department of War— as a JAG officer, civilian OGC attorney, or contractor embedded with DOW legal teams. Familiarity with the operational and legal culture of an active duty environment is a plus.
• Deep, hands-onproficiencywith AI tools and a demonstrated ability to use technology to scale legal output — not as a curiosity, but as a core competency.
• The mindset of a force multiplier: you measure your impact by what your team canaccomplishwith you in the room, not just what you can do alone.
• Ability to independently manage complex legal matters in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Relentless owner mentality: you see the gap, close it, and brief up — regardless of whether itwasin your original lane.
• Exceptional communication skills across legal, technical, and operational audiences. You can brief a General Counsel and a software engineer in the same afternoon and leave both better off.
• Active curiosity about the future of legal work and a genuine desire to be one of the people whoshapesit.

Preferred Qualifications

• PriorJAGCorps experience (any branch) or equivalent service as a DoD civilian attorney.
• Experienceoperatingwithin or alongside the CDAO, OSD, Joint Staff, or a Combatant Command legal office.
• Familiarity with government contracting vehicles, task order execution, or ISV program structures.
• Experience building or deploying legal technology in a government or cleared environment.
• Prior experience at a legal technology company, AI startup, or in a forward-deployed / field-facing legal role.

Compensation

• Base salary: $180K-$190K.
• Equity participation.
• Full benefits.

This is a competitive package designed to attract senior legal talent with rare capabilities. We take equity seriously.Eudiais building a category-defining company, and wewant you to own a piece of it.

Why You’ll Want This Role

• Mission That Matters: You will work on some of the most consequential legal matters in the federal government. The DoD’s legal challenges are not hypothetical. They shape real outcomes.
• You Are the Pioneer:Eudiais bringing AI-powered legal practice to the national security community for the first time at this scale.You will not be following a playbook; you will be writing it.
• Rare Combination of Depth and Velocity: You get the stability and mission gravity of government legal work with the speed, innovation culture, and upside of one of the most well-funded AI companies in the legal space.
• Equity in a Category-Defining Company:Eudiais backed by $105M in Series A funding led by General Catalyst. The opportunity to build meaningful equity ownership while doing important public-sector work is genuinely rare.
• A Team That Gets It: Your colleagues at Eudia understand legal work, AI, and the complexity of operating in regulated environments. You will not have to explain why this ishard,they already know.

If you have served the mission, know what it takes to work inside cleared environments, and are ready to be the person who brings AI-enabled legal practice to the institutions that protect this country,wewant to hear from you.