Senior Legal Counsel
Raydar
Senior Legal Counsel
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-11
Salary: USD 180,000–250,000
Workplace: on_site
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.
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.
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
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Raydar is an AI-powered talent acquisition firm that serves tech-focused organizations on a contingency basis, charging client companies only after a successful hire. It uses proprietary AI to identify a large pool of candidates and conducts a short 15-minute AI-driven interview (recorded and transcribed) before human recruiters review materials, provide interview prep, and assist with offers and negotiations. What sets it apart is the blend of automated sourcing and screening with hands-on human oversight and tailored client support. Its goal is to help organizations hire more efficiently by speeding up sourcing while maintaining thorough evaluation and negotiation assistance.
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