layiq

/la·yiq/adjective

worthy; deserving; fitting; suitable.

A role, opportunity, or path that merits attention, time, and pursuit.

Legal Engineer at Firecrawl | LAYIQ

Equity Range:

Competitive equity. Details shared during the process.

Location:

San Francisco, CA (SF HQ). On-site, five 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: Must be authorized to work in the United States. We're not able to sponsor US visas right now, though that may change down the line.

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 183k+ GitHub stars, putting us in the top 50 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, working out of SF HQ and our new Toronto Hub. 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.

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
Own the technical side of our legal commitments. Show that our systems do what our terms, DPAs, and policies say, in a way that holds up in a customer security review
Build the tools that let sales and ops handle routine paper without waiting on legal
Find legal risk in the product before it ships, and fix it with engineering rather than a list of no’s

What We're Looking For

You’re an engineer first. You’ve shipped production software people use: Python or TypeScript, APIs, data, and LLMs
You have a real legal background: a JD, or years inside a law firm or an in-house legal team. Bar admission is a plus
Maybe you were an engineer before law school, or you went to law school and ended up building. Either way, you’re fluent in both
You’re an AI super user. This is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have. You reach for AI to move faster by default
You turn vague legal questions into clear rules, and clear rules into systems
You’re a self-starter. Nobody is going to hand you a plan. You’ll build this function while running it

What We're NOT Looking For

A lawyer who has never written code, or who only “works closely with engineers”
An engineer with no legal background
A compliance program manager who tracks controls in a spreadsheet
Someone who optimizes for process over shipping
A Note On Pace
We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings, but this role probably isn't for you.

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

Wellness stipend:

$100 USD/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human

Learning & Development:

Expense up to $1,000 USD/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally

Team offsites:

A change of scenery, minus the trust falls

Sabbatical:

3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new

Available to US-based full-time employees

Full coverage, no red tape:

Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for partner and kids). No weird loopholes, just care that works

Life & Disability insurance:

Employer-paid basic life and AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability. Coverage for life's curveballs

Virtual care and a health guide:

Teladoc for the couch doctor visit, plus Rightway to answer coverage questions and fight billing errors for you

Mental health:

Talkspace, therapy and psychiatry on your schedule

Fertility and family building:

Carrot, covering you and your partner

EAP:

Free confidential counseling, legal and financial consults, and online will prep through Guardian

401(k) plan:

Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you

Pre-tax benefits:

HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits to help your wallet out a bit

Supplemental options:

Extra life and AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, plus pet, legal, and identity protection through MetLife

Available to SF-based employees

SF HQ perks:

Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy

E-Bike transportation:

A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us

Interview Process

Application Review:

Send us something you’ve built (a repo, a tool, a demo) and a quick note on your legal background and why this excites you. We care about what you’ve done, not where you went to school.

Intro Chat (~25 min):

A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. We’ll talk about what you’ve been working on, what drew you to Firecrawl, and what you’re looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too.

Technical Chat (~45 min):

Build something live. We’ll take a real legal problem from our world and you’ll turn it into working code.

Legal Chat (~45 min):

A real legal question from our world, worked through with our counsel. We care how you reason, not what you’ve memorized.

Founder Chat (~25 min):

Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.

Paid Work Trial (~40 Hours):

Work with the team on a real, scoped piece of the work, paid at a contractor rate. It’s the truest signal for both sides. You see what building at Firecrawl actually feels like, and we see how you operate. Remote-friendly, and we’ll flex around your current commitments.

If you’re an engineer who knows the law, you should join us.

👉 Apply now.

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