R&D Attorney

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Hiring Remotely in San Mateo, CA, USA
In-Office or Remote
150K-260K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Legal Tech
The AI for in-house counsel
The Role
As an R&D Attorney, you will ensure the accuracy and quality of AI outputs, validating them against legal standards and collaborating with technical teams to enhance product development.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 2,000 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.

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 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

 
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.

  • 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.

 
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.

  • 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.

 
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.

Skills Required

  • 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 (corporate-commercial, transactional law, compliance)
  • Experience using generative AI for legal work and evaluating generative AI outputs
  • Strong analytical skills, including ability to design metrics and interpret evaluation results
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills to work closely with teams

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
130 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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Hybrid Workspace

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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