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Legal and Operations Engineering Lead

Perplexity· Legal
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Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (Palo Alto)$150k - $250kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Technical lead to drive infrastructure development for Perplexity's legal and operations platforms, transforming high-volume legal workflows into scalable, automated systems within a fast-growing AI technology company.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build Perplexity's Legal and Operations Engineering platform — a coherent stack of agents, workflows, and evaluation infrastructure that replaces manual, high-volume legal work across commercial contracting, e-discovery, enterprise redlining, subsidiary governance, vendor onboarding, and litigation and matter management.
  • Own the enterprise contracting automation system end-to-end.
  • Ship the in-product legal surfaces built on Perplexity and Computer itself
  • Consolidate today's ad-hoc legal bots, prompts, and scripts into a documented, observable, and reusable platform with clear conventions for personas, tools, evals, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
  • Serve as the technical partner to the General Counsel. Translate complex, judgment-heavy legal workflows into engineered systems, and translate engineering constraints back to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Evaluate, retire, or replace third-party tools where a purpose-built internal system gives us a structural advantage.
  • Be the case study for forward-deployed engineering in non-engineering functions at Perplexity. Success here becomes the playbook for Legal, Recruiting, People, Workplace, and Operations.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of backend software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems at meaningful scale.
  • A working knowledge of legal concepts, with some experience in legal operations or paralegal work is desired.
  • Strong business judgment and practical problem-solving; comfortable making operational calls with incomplete information and calibrating risk in real time.
  • Track record building scalable processes and foundational systems from scratch, not maintaining a mature function.
  • Fluency with modern legal tech and AI tools; disciplined human-in-the-loop practices.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to work directly with senior legal, finance, and executive stakeholders.
  • Entrepreneurial drive, intellectual curiosity, and agility to thrive in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.

Skills

Required:Backend software engineeringBusiness judgment & problem-solvingFoundational systems designHuman-in-the-loop practicesCommunication with senior stakeholders
Nice to have:Legal concepts familiarity

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
  • International benefits tailored to region of residence.
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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