# Visiting Engineer: General Counsel

**Company:** [AI Fund](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ai-fund)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $30k – $30k/yr
**Skills:** NLP, LLMs, Document Processing, Information Extraction, Pdf Processing, Ocr, Python, Full-Stack Engineering, Backend Engineering, AI/ML
**Posted:** 2026-04-17

> Builds an AI-native general counsel product for SMBs, focusing on contract ingestion, clause extraction, risk scoring, and review workflows using LLMs and NLP for high-precision legal operations.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design the document processing pipeline for handling enterprise contract formats (PDFs, Word, email attachments).
- Build extraction models to identify and classify contract clauses with high precision.
- Develop a risk assessment framework comparing contracts to company playbooks and approved clause libraries.
- Implement a review workflow integrating with legal tools (CLMs, matter management systems, email).
- Work with legal design partners to validate accuracy.

## Requirements
- Strong full-stack or backend engineering skills with production systems for complex documents.
- Experience with document processing, NLP, or information extraction from unstructured text.
- Hands-on with LLMs for structured data extraction, classification, or reasoning.
- Ability to build high-precision systems with critical false positive management.
- Ability to work autonomously and make product/architecture decisions.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in legal tech, compliance tech, or regulated industry software.
- Familiarity with CLM tools or legal workflow systems.
- Background in document AI, OCR, or PDF processing.
- Founder or founding engineer experience for knowledge worker workflows.

## Compensation
- $10,000/month for 12 weeks ($30,000 total).
- Contract role during residency; potential founder-level role with equity if successful.

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