Legal Engineer

The role

You will build systems that turn legal advice into software, including contract review agents and policy checks. You will work with lawyers to turn their decisions into code and handle technical analysis for web data questions.

What you will do

• Build legal team tools like contract intake, redline agents, and a clause library
• Turn lawyers' advice into code for products and pipelines
• Perform research and technical analysis on terms of service, robots.txt, copyright, and privacy
• Own the technical side of legal commitments to satisfy customer security reviews
• Build tools for sales and ops to handle routine paper
• Find and fix legal risk in the product using engineering

Required qualifications

• Write production software using Python or TypeScript, APIs, data, and LLMs
• JD, or years working inside a law firm or an in-house legal team
• AI super user
• Authorized to work in the US

Nice to have

• Bar admission
• Engineer before law school, or went to law school and ended up building

Benefits

• Competitive equity
• 15 days mandatory PTO, anything after 24 days is available
• 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
• $100 USD/month wellness stipend
• $1,000 USD/year learning and development expense
• Team offsites
• 3 paid months sabbatical after 4 years
• Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for partner and kids)
• Employer-paid basic life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability
• Teladoc and Rightway
• Talkspace
• Carrot fertility and family building

Before you apply

• Send a repo, tool, demo, and note on legal background
• Technical Chat involves building something live
• Paid Work Trial (~40 Hours) is a paid contractor rate trial

About the company

Firecrawl is an AI infrastructure company that turns the web into data for AI agents. They provide an API that converts URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data.