Design Engineer

GC AI is the fastest-growing and most trusted legal AI platform for in-house legal teams. We're building the future of legal work and we're doing it fast. You'll join at a pivotal moment—when decisions matter impact is immediate and the runway to shape your career is wide open. We’re a high-performing team where you'll have real ownership and influence from day one.

More than 1500 companies use GC AI to drive their business forward including 150+ public companies 25+ unicorns and brands such as News Corp Miro Bass Pro Shops Snyk Skims Liquid Death Vercel Zscaler and TIME.

We've 10x'd revenue in 12 months raised a $60 million Series B ($555 million valuation) and are growing faster than ever. We are backed by incredible investors including Scale Venture Partners Northzone Sound Ventures and Guillermo Rauch CEO of Vercel.

If you thrive when the stakes are high and the path isn't paved you'll love it here. Our six guiding principles are: 1% better every day customer obsession ship today find a way care deeply and own it completely. Come shape the future of legal work with us.

We're seeking a Design Engineer to bridge the gap between design and engineering at GC AI. In this role you'll help shape our design system implementation architect front-end solutions and ensure seamless user experiences across our platform. You'll be instrumental in creating intuitive interfaces that transform how legal professionals work making sophisticated legal tasks feel simple and accessible.

Legal teams today are drowning in work. Our platform changes that but only if we build it right. As a Design Engineer you'll be crafting the visual systems and interactions that make sophisticated legal work feel simple and intuitive. Your work won't just look good - it will fundamentally change how legal teams operate making their work faster smarter and more impactful.

• Architect and implement complex UI components and systems that balance aesthetics with technical performance.

• Lead the technical implementation and evolution of our design system across our marketing.

• Create prototypes to explore new interaction models and validate design concepts for legal workflows.

• Establish best practices for front-end development and component architecture.

• Mentor engineers on design principles and implementation techniques.

• Develop tools and processes to improve design-to-development workflow.

• Contribute to design reviews.

• Champion accessible responsive and performant user interfaces for legal teams.

• Build marketing landing pages.

• Define the visual language and interaction patterns for AI-native legal workflows so teams complete reviews faster and with more confidence.

• Turn ambiguous user pain points into elegant production-ready interfaces that measurably reduce time-to-answer and error rates.

• Establish a reusable design system that speeds up iteration across product growth and integrations surfaces.

• Partner with AI + product engineering to make complex model behavior legible through clear affordances states and explanations.

• 5+ years of experience in front-end development with a strong design sensibility.

• Expert-level knowledge of HTML CSS JavaScript/TypeScript and React.

• Deep experience with modern front-end frameworks (React preferred).

• Strong understanding of design systems and component-based architecture.

• Experience implementing complex UI animations and interactions.

• Proven ability to translate design concepts into production-ready code.

• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with both design and engineering teams.

• Experience with accessibility standards and best practices.

• Experience with Framer.

• Understanding of legal tech or B2B SaaS.

   

We’re building something new in a once-in-a-generation shift in technology and the legal industry so we move at a relentless pace. We expect urgency ownership and good judgment even when things aren’t perfectly clear. If you need structure and consensus to do your best work this isn’t the right place for you. If you thrive in ambiguity and growth work with intensity and want real responsibility keep reading. We’re excited to meet you.

We are hiring for this role to be based in the United States or Canada. This is a remote role unless you fall within the following parameters. If you live within approximately 50 miles of our San Mateo CA or Provo UT office the position follows a hybrid schedule with in-office days on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays.

GC AI is an equal opportunity employer that supports workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion gender identity/expression national origin age military service eligibility veteran status sexual orientation marital status physical or mental disability or any other protected class. GC AI is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. #LI-GCAI

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What We Do

GC AI is the leading legal AI platform built specifically for in-house teams to solve the high-precision workflows they face every day. With powerful features like Easy Prompt™ Exact Quote™ citations and native Microsoft Word integration GC AI enables legal professionals to be strategic business partners through faster and more accurate drafting reviewing researching and redlining. Purpose-built for sensitive high-stakes matters the platform leverages five large language models while maintaining enterprise-grade security as a SOC 2 Type II certified provider that never uses confidential data for training. Founded by three-time General Counsel Cecilia Ziniti and AI engineer Bardia Pourvakil GC AI is trusted by over 1600 legal teams globally including brands like News Corp Skims TIME Inc. Liquid Death and Vercel. Discover the difference of becoming an AI-powered lawyer. Try it free or book a demo at gc.ai.

Why Work With Us

GC AI offers a rare opportunity to join a high-growth category leader at the intersection of generative AI and deep legal expertise. Our culture is defined by a "1% better every day" philosophy favoring curious customer-obsessed builders who thrive in a high-ownership environment where they can see the immediate impact of their work.

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