R&D Attorney

GC AI; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

Life & Disability Insurance

Retirement Plan

Parental Leave

Continuous Development

In-Office Meals

Paid Time Off

Company Holidays

Home Office Setup

Cell Phone Reimbursement

Relocation Support

Job summary

GC AI is seeking an experienced R&D Attorney to shape legal AI features and experiences used by in-house teams. You will blend legal expertise with product judgment, partnering with engineers, product, and GTM to define evaluations, translate workflows into requirements, and refine features based on customer feedback.

You will help set standards for launch readiness and drive the future of legal AI in corporate environments, leveraging your in-house experience and AI proficiency to deliver

Qualifications

• Law degree and license to practice law.
• 5+ years of legal experience, ideally in-house.
• Substantive depth in corporate-commercial, contracts, privacy or regulatory areas.
• Experience using generative AI for legal work and evaluating AI outputs.
• Strong analytical skills to design metrics and interpret results.
• Excellent cross-functional communication with engineering, product and GTM teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and run rigorous evaluations to ensure AI outputs meet high professional standards.
• Review and validate product outputs for accuracy, relevance, and completeness.
• Translate customer feedback into product improvements with clear acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, design and GTM from discovery to launch.
• Advocate for precision, consistency and clarity in legal AI outputs.
• Translate real legal workflows into actionable product requirements and roadmaps.
• Provide domain-specific legal expertise to guide feature development.
• Build products lawyers trust and want to use through experimentation.

Skills

In-house experience

Generative AI use

Cross-functional teamwork

Legal product mindset

Metrics design

Education

J.D. or equivalent

Tools

AI evaluation tools

Job description

GC AI is the legal intelligence platform built for in-house legal teams and companies. Your decisions shape the product, your impact is immediate, and you own your work from day one.

More than 2,100 companies run their legal work on GC AI, including 300+ public companies, 75+ unicorns, and teams at Nestlé, Hitachi Digital, Lockheed Martin, Miro, Bass Pro Shops, Riot Games, SKIMS, Liquid Death, Vercel, TIME, and Post Holdings. The platform holds an 80 NPS, more than double the B2B SaaS industry average, reinforcing GC AI as the leading legal AI platform for companies of all sizes.

GC AI has doubled ARR in six months. We won #1 Highest Customer Satisfaction at the 2026 SaaS Awards. Our investors include Scale Venture Partners, Northzone, Sound Ventures, and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel.

You’ll define how things get built, not follow someone else’s playbook. Six principles guide how the team works:

• 1% Better Every Day: small, compounding improvements across everything you ship.
• Customer Obsession: start with the customer and work backward.
• Ship Today: bias toward action and iteration over perfection.
• Find a Way: resourcefulness and ambition over constraint.
• Care: be direct, like an honest friend, even when it’s uncomfortable.
• Own It: full accountability, proactive communication, and attention to detail.

About The Role

As an R&D Attorney, you will shape the products, features, and AI experiences that legal teams rely on every day. You will combine legal expertise, product judgment, and a practical understanding of how legal teams work to define what excellent legal AI looks like. Working alongside engineers as a legal expert, product partner, and advanced user, you will design legal evaluations, translate real-world workflows into product requirements, test and refine new features, and turn customer feedback into lasting improvements. You will help decide what we build, set the standard for launch readiness, and shape the future of legal AI for in-house teams.

What You’ll Do

• Design and run rigorous evaluations that define and measure whether our AI-generated work meets the high standards expected by top-tier legal professionals.
• Review and validate product outputs for accuracy, relevance, comprehensiveness, helpfulness, etc.
• Turn customer feedback into lasting improvements by identifying root causes, determining whether the solution requires a prompt, skill, tool, or broader product change, and creating tests that prevent recurrence.
• Work alongside engineering, product, design, and GTM teams to shape products and features from initial discovery through requirements, prioritization, testing, launch, and ongoing improvement.
• Serve as the legal voice of quality, advocating for precision, consistency, and clarity in AI outputs.
• Operate as a product manager, legal expert, and advanced user by translating real legal workflows and customer needs into clear product requirements, acceptance criteria, and roadmap recommendations.
• Provide domain-specific legal expertise that guides feature development and product roadmap decisions.
• Help build products that lawyers trust and want to use, combining legal judgment, product thinking, customer insight, and hands-on experimentation.

What You've Done

• Law degree and license to practice law.
• 5+ years of legal experience, ideally with meaningful in-house experience.
• 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 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.

How We Work Together

GC AI is a distributed company with team members across North America, and soon Europe. We believe that because our business is AI, human connection matters more, not less. We invest in bringing people together through our hub model: regular coworking sessions, customer dinners, team and company offsites. If you’re in a location without an office, expect up to 10% travel (and more for customer‑facing roles).

Team members in the San Francisco Bay Area and Provo, UT (within 50 miles of the office) work together on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. As we grow, we plan to establish permanent offices in more hub cities, and we will look to our team members to help build that in‑person culture. We currently hire across the United States and Canada.

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision — Comprehensive coverage for you and your family
• Life & Disability Insurance — Added protection when you need it most
• Retirement Plan — Plan and save for your future
• Parental Leave — Time to focus on what matters most
• Continuous Development — Up to $3,000/year for job‑related learning & development
• In-Office Meals — DoorDash credits for breakfast, lunch & dinner
• Paid Time Off — 15 PTO days + 5 sick days, with opportunities to accrue more
• Company Holidays — 15 company holidays + 3 additional “Me Days”
• Home Office Setup — $500 for new hires to build out their workspace
• Cell Phone Reimbursement — $50/month toward your phone bill
• Relocation Support — Assistance to help make your move easier

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.

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