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title: 'Founding Applied AI Engineer at WilsonAI'
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# Founding Applied AI Engineer at WilsonAI

- **Company:** WilsonAI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-01-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wilson/901651b2-76a5-4d4c-a3a7-f0d9453c7389

## Job description

WilsonAI is building Cursor for lawyers. We help legal teams review, negotiate, and manage contracts with unprecedented speed and accuracy. We are backed by Nomad Ventures and Autopilot and raised a $1.7M pre seed at the end of 2024.

Since then we have stabilised our product with real customers, beaten established competitors in head to head pilots with teams handling hundreds of millions in revenue, and scaled through founder led sales to multi six figure revenue. We are at the very start of a huge opportunity to transform the trillion dollar legal industry using AI, and we are building a small, elite team to do it.

## THE ROLE

We are looking for a Founding Applied AI Engineer to work at the core of our product.

You will work directly with our CTO across both customer facing features and deep technical systems. You will design, build, and ship LLM powered workflows that real legal teams rely on every day. You will debug failure modes, improve accuracy, and push models and systems until they work reliably in production.

This is a hands on role. You will own problems end to end, from understanding what a customer needs to shipping a working solution. You will be expected to move fast, make good decisions with incomplete information, and take responsibility for outcomes.

In return, you will get rare exposure to how a high growth AI company is built from the inside, with direct ownership over critical parts of the product.

## WHAT YOU WILL DO

- Build and improve LLM driven workflows for contract review, redlining, extraction, and legal Q&A
- Design and implement agent orchestration and multi step reasoning pipelines
- Diagnose and fix model failures, hallucinations, and edge cases
- Work closely with customers and product to turn real legal problems into reliable AI systems
- Own features end to end, from design through to production and iteration

## WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

- Experience building production LLM workflows or agent based systems
- Deep intuition for how language models behave and how to steer them
- Strong computer science fundamentals and clear, structured problem solving
- Ability to reason about complex systems and anticipate failure modes
- High attention to detail and a bias toward shipping things that actually work
- High agency, fast learner, and comfortable owning problems without hand holding
- Comfortable working hard and doing unglamorous work when needed
- Startup builders, ex founders, or engineers who want responsibility and speed are especially welcome

## WHY THIS ROLE

You will be working at the frontier of applied AI in a domain where correctness and reliability really matter. The legal industry is massive, slow moving, and ripe for disruption. We are moving fast and optimising for impact.

If you want to build real AI products that people depend on, grow faster than you would anywhere else, and help define a new category, we would love to hear from you.

## About WilsonAI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: WilsonAI is building the world’s first AI paralegal for in-house legal teams, automating repetitive legal requests and streamlining workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-seed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Gus Neate (CEO, ex-Clifford Chance lawyer) and Alex Wang (CTO, ex-D.E. Shaw developer & quant)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Legal Technology / AI-powered legal operations
- **Target customers**: In-house legal teams at high-growth technology companies (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To eliminate the legal bottleneck by handling routine legal work, allowing lawyers to focus on strategic, high-value tasks.

## Products & Services
- **AI Paralegal (Legal Large Action Model – LLAM)**: An AI agent that integrates with a legal team’s existing systems and data. Automates routine legal requests, answers common questions, reviews contracts, and captures knowledge. It learns from real-world usage to improve over time. (SaaS / AI Agent)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $1.7 million (Pre-seed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Nomad Ventures (lead), Autopilot Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Transpose Platform, and strategic angels including Mei Z and several exited founders and law firm partners.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Deployed with 10 high-growth technology companies.
  - Automates over 50% of routine legal queries and accelerates contract review processes by up to 70%.
  - In-house lawyers report redirecting 15–20 hours per week to strategic work.
  - Team includes experts from Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Starling Bank, Portofino Technologies, Julia Computing, and D.E. Shaw.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Legal Large Action Model (LLAM)** – unlike static AI tools, it continuously refines capabilities based on real-world usage, making it adaptive to each legal team’s workflows.
- **Deep domain expertise** – founded by a former lawyer and a quant developer, combining legal knowledge with cutting-edge AI.
- **Seamless integration** – designed to plug into existing legal tech stacks and internal knowledge bases, reducing friction for adoption.

## Strategic Focus
- Enhance AI capabilities and expand integrations with existing legal tech stacks.
- Accelerate customer onboarding across industries.
- Scale the team and product to become the essential AI paralegal for in-house legal teams worldwide.

## Why Work Here
- **Early-stage impact** – Join a small, high-caliber team (currently ~6 employees) where you’ll directly shape the product and company culture.
- **Founders with top-tier backgrounds** – Work alongside leaders from Clifford Chance, D.E. Shaw, and other elite institutions.
- **Remote-friendly culture** – The team is distributed across the United States and United Kingdom, suggesting a flexible, hybrid/remote environment.
- **Cutting-edge AI work** – Build a proprietary Legal Large Action Model, pushing the boundaries of applied AI in a high-value domain.
- **Notable perks** – Free trial and demo available; likely a strong engineering culture with a stack including TypeScript, React, Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, and more.

## Sources
1. [Ashby Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wilson)
2. [WilsonAI Blog – Funding Announcement](https://www.getwilson.ai/blog/wilsonai-raises-1-7m-pre-seed-for-ai-paralegal)
3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wilsonai-company)
4. [EU-Startups Article](https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/02/wilsonai-raises-e1-6-million-for-worlds-first-ai-paralegal-for-in-house-legal-teams/)
5. [VentureRadar Profile](https://www.ventureradar.com/organisation/WilsonAI/7bff578b-9836-4518-9b9a-ec3ff9e5b5b6)

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- [Founding Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-designer-wilsonai-san-francisco-bvsw7xszw2tv) — San Francisco, CA
- [Founding Marketing Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-marketing-lead-wilsonai-san-francisco-sz28ba54f7xq) — San Francisco, CA
- [Founding Sales Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-sales-lead-wilsonai-san-francisco-3ex1pzyktnbr) — San Francisco, CA
- [Founding Applied AI Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-applied-ai-engineer-atlas-san-francisco-jvsemer50tep) — San Francisco, CA