R&D Attorney

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

More than 2000 companies run their legal work on GC AI including 200 public companies 25 unicorns and teams at News Corp Nestlé Miro Bass Pro Shops Snyk Skims Liquid Death Vercel Zscaler and TIME. The platform holds an 80 NPS more than double the B2B SaaS industry average which is why GC AI is the leading legal AI platform for companies of all sizes.

GC AI doubled ARR in six months. We raised a $60 million Series B at a $555 million valuation in November 2025 and 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.

Youll define how things get built not follow someone elses 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 its uncomfortable.

• Own It: full accountability proactive communication and attention to detail.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Were 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 arent perfectly clear. If you need structure and consensus to do your best work this isnt the right place for you. If you thrive in ambiguity and growth work with intensity and want real responsibility keep reading. Were excited to meet you.

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 youre 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.

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. #LI-GCAI

To protect yourself against phishing and recruitment fraud please note that GC AI only accepts job applications through our official careers page at and through sponsored jobs on LinkedIn. All legitimate communication from our team regarding job opportunities will come from a GC AI team member with a @ or @ email address.

GC AI will never:

• Refer you to external websites to apply

• Conduct interviews over email chat platforms or messaging apps

• Ask you to provide payment or purchase equipment

• Request personal or financial information such as your mailing address social security number credit card numbers or banking information during the application process

Examples of fraudulent email addresses:

• Any email address ending in @ @ or other free email services

If you are contacted by someone claiming to be from GC AI via an unofficial channel or from a suspicious email address please do not share any information. Mark the communication as phishing or spam and do not respond.

Required Experience:

IC