Legal and Operations Engineering Lead
Perplexity1 month ago
Base Salary
$150k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build the Legal and Operations Engineering platform of agents, workflows, and evaluation infrastructure.
- Own the enterprise contracting automation system end-to-end.
- Ship in-product legal surfaces built on Perplexity and Computer.
- Consolidate ad hoc legal bots, prompts, and scripts into a documented, observable, reusable platform with conventions for personas, tools, evaluations, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
- Serve as the technical partner to the General Counsel by translating legal workflows into engineered systems and communicating engineering constraints to non-technical stakeholders.
- Evaluate, retire, or replace third-party tools when an internal system provides a structural advantage.
- Develop a repeatable model for forward-deployed engineering in non-engineering functions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend software engineering experience shipping production systems at meaningful scale.
- Working knowledge of legal concepts, with legal operations or paralegal experience desired.
- Experience building scalable processes and foundational systems from scratch.
- Fluency with modern legal technology and AI tools, including disciplined human-in-the-loop practices.
- Strong business judgment, practical problem-solving skills, and the ability to make operational decisions amid ambiguity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work with senior legal, finance, and executive stakeholders.
- Experience in an AI-native, SaaS, or consumer technology company is preferred.
- Familiarity with e-billing platforms such as Brightflag, matter management, CLM, and entity management systems is preferred.
- Comfort with ambiguity, rapid context-switching, and a builder mentality is preferred.
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About Perplexity
Perplexity builds an AI-powered answer engine for web and mobile and an enterprise product, Perplexity Computer, for AI-driven workflows across tools and apps. The company monetizes through individual subscriptions (Perplexity Pro) and enterprise plans. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a privately held company.