Legal Engineer

LEGAL ENGINEER You’re an engineer first, with a real legal background. You’ll join Firecrawl’s legal team and build the systems that turn legal advice into software: contract review agents, policy checks that run in our pipelines, playbooks the sales team can use without waiting on a lawyer, and proof that our systems do what our terms and commitments say they do. This is a builder seat on the legal team, not a compliance program seat. You work directly with our lawyers. They make the legal calls, you turn them into code, and you know the law well enough to push back and spot what they missed. You’ll report to the General Counsel and work every day with our engineers. Salary Range: $251,000–$276,000 USD/year Equity Range: Competitive equity. Details shared during the process. Location: San Francisco, CA (SF HQ). Hybrid, onsite 3+ days a week. Job Type: Full-Time Requirements: You write production code today, and you have a real legal background: a JD, or years working inside a law firm or an in-house legal team. Bar admission is a plus. Work Authorization: Open to candidates already authorized to work in the US. We also support H-1B transfers, F-1 OPT and STEM OPT, TN (Canada and Mexico), and E-3 (Australia). We’re not able to sponsor new H-1B visas for candidates outside the US. ABOUT FIRECRAWL Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data. It's the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved. In September 2026, we raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital, and we're spending it building the largest repository of knowledge in the world. We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 187k+ GitHub stars, putting us in the top 40 repositories of all time, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started. We're a small team punching far above our weight. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves. No hiding behind process or headcount. This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web. That library is called Alexandria, and it starts now. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build the legal team’s tools yourself: contract intake, redline and review agents, a clause library, and tracking for what we’ve promised each customer - Turn our lawyers’ advice into code. When counsel decides how we handle something, you make it run in the product and the pipelines, not sit in a memo - Work the hard web data questions with our counsel: terms of service, robots.txt, copyright, privacy, and the data providers that list on Alexandria. You do the research and the technical analysis. They make the call - Own the technical side of our legal commitments. Show that our systems do what our terms, DPAs, and policies say, in a way that holds up in a customer security review - Build the tools that let sales and ops handle routine paper without waiting on legal - Find legal risk in the product before it ships, and fix it with engineering rather than a list of no’s WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - You’re an engineer first. You’ve shipped production software people use: Python or TypeScript, APIs, data, and LLMs - You have a real legal background: a JD, or years inside a law firm or an in-house legal team. Bar admission is a plus - Maybe you were an engineer before law school, or you went to law school and ended up building. Either way, you’re fluent in both - You’re an AI super user. This is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have. You reach for AI to move faster by default - You turn vague legal questions into clear rules, and clear rules into systems - You’re a self-starter. Nobody is going to hand you a plan. You’ll build this function while running it WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR - A lawyer who has never written code, or who only “works closely with engineers” - An engineer with no legal background - A compliance program manager who tracks controls in a spreadsheet - Someone who optimizes for process over shipping A NOTE ON PACE We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings, but this role probably isn't for you. BENEFITS & PERKS AVAILABLE TO ALL EMPLOYEES - Salary that makes sense: $251,000–$276,000 USD/year, based on impact, not tenure - Own a piece: Gain competitive equity in what you're helping build - Generous PTO: 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holi