What are the responsibilities and job description for the R&D Attorney, Transactional position at GC AI?
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 1,300 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
GC AI's compensation package includes a competitive base salary benchmarked against real-time market data, as well as equity for all full-time roles. We also offer exceptional benefits, as well as commission plans for applicable roles. Our US-based compensation range for this role is $150,000 – $200,000. Actual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, location, market demand, and other factors.
These compensation bands are just the starting point. After someone joins and proves they’re and exceptional performer, we adjust quickly to ensure their compensation aligns with their impact.
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.
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
More than 1,300 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
GC AI's compensation package includes a competitive base salary benchmarked against real-time market data, as well as equity for all full-time roles. We also offer exceptional benefits, as well as commission plans for applicable roles. Our US-based compensation range for this role is $150,000 – $200,000. Actual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, location, market demand, and other factors.
These compensation bands are just the starting point. After someone joins and proves they’re and exceptional performer, we adjust quickly to ensure their compensation aligns with their impact.
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.
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
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Salary : $150,000 - $200,000