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Legal Engineer

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · San Francisco, CA

Employer listed it 8 weeks ago · Added 4 weeks ago

Been open since 8 weeks ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.

Salary

$251k to $276k per year

Location

Hybrid · San Francisco, CA

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Mid

What the advert says

Quoted word for word from the employer's advert. Where it says nothing, we say so.

Working hours: Paid Work Trial (~40 Hours): Work with the team on a real, scoped piece of the work, paid at a contractor rate.
Where you can work from: Hybrid, onsite 3+ days a week.
Contract: Job Type: Full-Time
Experience asked for: Not mentioned in the advert
Pay: Salary Range: $251,000–$276,000 USD/year

Remote flexibility

Hybrid

This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, CA, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, CA, Hybrid"
Listing mentions "Hybrid"

What Nomaders makes of it

Not suitable if you plan to move between countries

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Before you apply

Experience: employer states

Written as a requirement

“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.”
“You have a real legal background: a JD, or years inside a law firm or an in-house legal team.”

Questions worth asking: Nomaders interpretation

This role involves office time, but the advert does not say how often. Ask how many days a week are expected on site.

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About the role

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 192k+ 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.

Our Values

Bias to action: We move fast, ship hard, and don’t wait to be told.

Realistic about AI: We’re clear-eyed about what AI can and can’t do, and we keep pushing to use it where it actually works.

All in: The next few years matter a lot, and we’re all in for them.

Human connection: As intelligence gets cheaper, relationships with customers, partners, and each other matter more.

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

Requirements

The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.

Benefits

·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 (holidays excluded). Take the time you need to recharge
·Parental leave: 12 weeks fully paid, for all parents

How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
2Tailor your CV to the role at Firecrawl, mentioning your remote working experience.
3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

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