R&D Attorney, Transactional

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Hiring Remotely in San Mateo, CA, USA
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Artificial Intelligence • Legal Tech
The AI for in-house counsel
The Role
GC AI is the fastest-growing and most trusted legal AI platform for in-house legal teams. We're building the future of legal work, and we're doing it fast. You'll join at a pivotal moment—when decisions matter, impact is immediate, and the runway to shape your career is wide open. We’re a high-performing team where you'll have real ownership and influence from day one.

More than 1,500 companies use GC AI to drive their business forward, including 150+ public companies, 25+ unicorns, and brands such as News Corp, Miro, Bass Pro Shops, Snyk, Skims, Liquid Death, Vercel, Zscaler, and TIME.

We've 10x'd revenue in 12 months, raised a $60 million Series B ($555 million valuation), and are growing faster than ever. We are backed by incredible investors, including Scale Venture Partners, Northzone, Sound Ventures, and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel.

If you thrive when the stakes are high and the path isn't paved, you'll love it here. Our six guiding principles are: 1% better every day, customer obsession, ship today, find a way, care deeply, and own it completely. Come shape the future of legal work with us.
Location

We are hiring for this role to be based in the United States or Canada. 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 Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

About The Role

As an R&D Attorney, you’ll be instrumental in measuring and continually improving the substantive accuracy and quality of the legal information we provide. We're delivering a product that legal teams love, and in this role, you’ll leverage your corporate-commercial/transactional legal experience to guide our AI toward practical excellence. You’ll set the bar for how legal AI behaves—optimizing system prompts, designing evaluations, and ensuring every output aligns with real-world legal standards. At a fast-moving, product-market-fit stage startup, your contributions won’t just be meaningful, they’ll help define our trajectory.

The Impact You Will Have

  • Shape the accuracy, reliability, and overall quality of AI outputs that hundreds of legal teams trust in their daily work.
  • Lead the development of cutting-edge legal evaluations that set new standards for assessing AI in practice.
  • Drive product enhancements by translating substantive expertise into features that improve usability, confidence, and outcomes for users.
  • Help build the leading legal AI platform for in-house teams.

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.
  • Translate nuanced, real-world legal expectations into concrete, testable prompts and evaluation criteria.
  • Draft and iterate on system prompts for our various AI systems.
  • Assess foundational model performance and suitability for different legal tasks.
  • Build and annotate complex legal datasets and document collections.
  • Serve as the legal voice of quality, advocating for precision, consistency, and clarity in AI outputs.
  • 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 your deep understanding of legal teams’ pain points.
  • Participate in customer calls and feedback sessions.
  • Proactively develop and continually learn new technical skills.
  • Take on additional projects and tasks as needed in response to the evolving needs of a fast-growing startup.

Required Experience

  • Law degree with 3+ years of corporate-commercial/transactional legal experience, ideally gained in an in-house environment.
  • Deep familiarity with drafting, review, and negotiating of contracts.
  • Experience using generative AI for legal work.
  • Experience conducting evaluations of generative AI outputs.
  • Strong quantitative and analytical skills.
  • Ability to design and interpret evaluation metrics and to abstract legal reasoning and processes into logical and repeatable steps.
  • Exceptional cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration skills.
  • Technologically curious with an aptitude for learning new tools, software, and skills.
  • Meticulous attention to detail.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with both GTM and engineering/product teams.

Nice To Have

  • You are already a GC AI user.
  • You’re nerdy about legal tech, especially in areas like prompt engineering and quality assurance.
  • You care about user experience, especially how legal professionals interact with and trust AI assistants.
  • You’ve worked closely with software engineers before.
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.

Compensation

GC AI's compensation package includes a competitive base salary benchmarked against real-time market data, as well as meaningful equity and excellent benefits for all full-time roles.

US-based compensation range for this role: $150,000 - $240,000.
Canadian-based compensation range for this role: CAD $165,000 - CAD $260,000.

This range spans multiple levels. Final compensation will vary based on leveling, market conditions, geographic location, and candidate qualifications, including relevant knowledge, skills, and experience assessed during the interview process.

These compensation bands are just the starting point. After someone joins and proves they’re an exceptional performer, we adjust quickly to ensure their compensation aligns with their impact.
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. #LI-GCAI

Fraud Notice to GC AI Applicants

To protect yourself against phishing and recruitment fraud, please note that GC AI only accepts job applications through our official careers page at https://gc.ai/careers 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 @gc.ai or @getgc.ai 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:

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.

GC AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights

How does GC AI ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?

GC AI ensures its pay and bonus plans are competitive through a structured and transparent compensation approach. The company publishes pay transparency, uses defined pay bands with transparent earning potential, and sets defined commission tiers and policies for applicable roles. Its compensation package also includes company equity and a 401(k), giving employees a clear view of both immediate pay and long-term financial upside.

GC AI reinforces that compensation philosophy with practices that create consistency and clarity across the employee experience. The company promotes from within, supports learning and development, and maintains defined working hours, availability expectations, and goal-setting through an OKR operating model. For job seekers, that signals a workplace where compensation is tied to clearly established expectations, growth opportunities, and a rewards structure designed to stay competitive as the company scales.

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The Company
HQ: San Mateo, California
100 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

GC AI is the leading legal AI platform built specifically for in-house teams to solve the high-precision workflows they face every day. With powerful features like Easy Prompt™, Exact Quote™ citations, and native Microsoft Word integration, GC AI enables legal professionals to be strategic business partners through faster and more accurate drafting, reviewing, researching, and redlining. Purpose-built for sensitive, high-stakes matters, the platform leverages five large language models while maintaining enterprise-grade security as a SOC 2 Type II certified provider that never uses confidential data for training. Founded by three-time General Counsel Cecilia Ziniti and AI engineer Bardia Pourvakil, GC AI is trusted by over 1,600 legal teams globally, including brands like News Corp, Skims, TIME Inc., Liquid Death, and Vercel. Discover the difference of becoming an AI-powered lawyer. Try it free or book a demo at gc.ai.

Why Work With Us

GC AI offers a rare opportunity to join a high-growth category leader at the intersection of generative AI and deep legal expertise. Our culture is defined by a "1% better every day" philosophy, favoring curious, customer-obsessed builders who thrive in a high-ownership environment where they can see the immediate impact of their work.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Many roles are eligible for remote work in the U.S. and Canada. For folks who live within 50 miles of our San Mateo, CA, or Provo, UT offices, we value in-person collaboration and work in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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