Perplexity AI
Legal and Operations Engineering Lead
San Francisco
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About the role
- Ship the in-product legal surfaces built on Perplexity and Computer itself
- We're seeking a sharp, innovative technical operations professional with strong business judgment, practical problem-solving skills, and a deep understanding of high-growth startup environments.
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.
- 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.
- Track record building scalable processes and foundational systems from scratch, not maintaining a mature function.
Requirements
- 3+ years of backend software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems at meaningful scale.
Nice to have
- Prior experience at an AI-native, SaaS, or consumer technology company operating at Perplexity's pace.
- Familiarity with e-billing platforms (e.g., Brightflag), matter management, CLM, and entity management systems.
- Comfort with ambiguity, rapid context-switching, and a builder mentality.
- Ideally, this person also brings legal expertise alongside technical know-how.
Benefits
- Entrepreneurial drive, intellectual curiosity, and agility to thrive in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
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