Clera
Senior Legal Engineer
- Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
- $150k–$225k
- Senior and above
- Full-time
- On-site · San Francisco
- 2+ yrs exp
- Added today
About this role
About the Role
Connect legal expertise, customer needs, and product development at an early-stage legal technology company. You will help turn commercial and legal requirements into reliable AI-assisted workflows, improving the platform experience from onboarding through ongoing use.
What You'll Do
Map customer needs into tailored legal workflows and guide clients through platform onboarding.
Review and validate AI-flagged legal issues across customer documents and filings for accuracy and completeness.
Turn customer feedback and legal team needs into clear product requirements for engineering.
Improve prompts, workflow modules, and automated processes to make the platform more reliable.
Build and refine legal workflows using AI tools, MCP servers, and command-line tools.
What We're Looking For
At least 2 years of combined experience in legal practice, legal technology, law firm innovation, or in-house legal work, with 2 to 8 years of overall relevant experience.
A JD or prior legal practice experience, or experience working at a legal technology company.
Hands-on experience building with AI tools, MCP servers, command-line tools, or code-generation workflows. A computer science degree is not required.
Experience translating legal needs into automated workflows, prompts, or product requirements.
Sound contract judgment and the ability to assess AI-generated legal work for accuracy and completeness.
Comfort owning problems end to end in a fast-moving startup environment.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $150,000 to $225,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Clera
Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.
- Industry
- Technology & Software
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience translating legal needs into automated workflows, prompts, or product requirements?
- Can you walk me through a time you reviewed and validated AI-generated legal work for accuracy and completeness?