# Senior Legal Counsel > Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-11 **Salary:** USD 180,000–250,000 **Workplace:** on_site ## Description About the company Our client is a small artificial intelligence company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead the legal side of a small, research-driven team by setting priorities for applied legal research and working alongside engineers and scientists. The role combines hands-on legal analysis and scholarly writing with building a legal function from the ground up. It suits an experienced attorney who enjoys producing published work and solving technical problems. What you'll do \- Decide which areas of law, jurisdictions and scenarios the team examines first. \- Develop realistic, multi-step scenarios with technical colleagues and take responsibility for the quality of the core datasets. \- Publish scholarly papers and engage with external legal scholars and academic advisors. \- Turn research findings into practical guidance for improving model training and pre-deployment testing. \- Recruit and manage legal annotators and lawyers as the team grows. \- Build the legal function, coordinating outside counsel where it makes sense. ## Requirements What we're looking for \- Seven or more years of legal experience, with real experience actively practicing law. \- Specialist depth in one field of law, such as injury litigation or technology regulation, with a background in product liability or tort matters especially valued. \- Currently licensed to practice law in a US state. \- A law degree from an American law school. \- A record of producing legal analysis in print, whether scholarship, court filings or written decisions. \- Genuine interest in AI and comfort working closely with machine learning researchers and engineers on technical problems. \- A startup mindset: enjoys building from zero and owning both research and day-to-day legal work. \- Willingness to work high-velocity hours beyond a standard 9-to-5, including weekends. Bonus points \- Admission to the California bar. \- Prior work on legal data, labeling projects or natural language tools for law. \- Hands-on familiarity with artificial intelligence, gained at a technology startup or in litigation involving AI. \- Experience leading or hiring a group of attorneys. \- Comfort representing the team's work to clients. \- Professional connections in academia, the judiciary and technology policy circles. ## Benefits Compensation and benefits \- Base salary: $180K - $250K \- Equity Location and work model \- San Francisco, CA, United States \- On-site, in person in San Francisco \- Full-time ## Apply [Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/9EA581203C/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)