About the company
Our client is a small artificial intelligence company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead the legal side of a small, research-driven team by setting priorities for applied legal research and working alongside engineers and scientists. The role combines hands-on legal analysis and scholarly writing with building a legal function from the ground up. It suits an experienced attorney who enjoys producing published work and solving technical problems.
What you'll do
- Decide which areas of law, jurisdictions and scenarios the team examines first.
- Develop realistic, multi-step scenarios with technical colleagues and take responsibility for the quality of the core datasets.
- Publish scholarly papers and engage with external legal scholars and academic advisors.
- Turn research findings into practical guidance for improving model training and pre-deployment testing.
- Recruit and manage legal annotators and lawyers as the team grows.
- Build the legal function, coordinating outside counsel where it makes sense.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Seven or more years of legal experience, with real experience actively practicing law.
- Specialist depth in one field of law, such as injury litigation or technology regulation, with a background in product liability or tort matters especially valued.
- Currently licensed to practice law in a US state.
- A law degree from an American law school.
- A record of producing legal analysis in print, whether scholarship, court filings or written decisions.
- Genuine interest in AI and comfort working closely with machine learning researchers and engineers on technical problems.
- A startup mindset: enjoys building from zero and owning both research and day-to-day legal work.
- Willingness to work high-velocity hours beyond a standard 9-to-5, including weekends.
Bonus points
- Admission to the California bar.
- Prior work on legal data, labeling projects or natural language tools for law.
- Hands-on familiarity with artificial intelligence, gained at a technology startup or in litigation involving AI.
- Experience leading or hiring a group of attorneys.
- Comfort representing the team's work to clients.
- Professional connections in academia, the judiciary and technology policy circles.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $180K - $250K
- Equity
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site, in person in San Francisco
- Full-time
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