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We're vertically integrated across hardware, manufacturing, logistics, collection, and model training to scale the physical labor dataset orders of magnitude faster than anyone in the world.\nJob Summary\nWe're hiring a Founding Paralegal to build and run the systems underneath Build's legal function. The role reports to the Founding Legal Counsel.\nBuild operates through entities, employees, contractors, partners, and collection networks in a growing number of countries. Every one of them generates records that must exist, be current, and be findable: statutory filings and registers, signed agreements, consent forms, engagement letters, corporate approvals, registrations, and renewals. When a customer runs diligence, a regulator asks a question, or a country goes live on a deadline, the answer depends on whether that record was captured correctly the first time.\nYou will own that layer. You will build the contract, entity, and compliance systems from nothing, keep every jurisdiction current against a calendar you own, and run the mechanics that would otherwise consume the legal function's time - leveraging AI seamlessly and exhaustively so the work scales quickly and efficiently.\nThis is not a document-routing job. You are a strategic partner. Your mission is to ensure that what Build believes to be true about its paper actually is.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn contract administration end to end, including intake, templates, versioning, execution, signature workflows, first-pass review against approved playbooks, and the contract repository\nMaintain international entities and corporate records, including statutory filings, officers and directors, approvals, notarization and legalization, and annual renewals\nOwn the global compliance calendar and drive every filing, registration, and renewal to completion\nOwn the consent library across countries, including versions, translations, deployment, and supporting records\nAdminister outside counsel operations across firms and countries, including engagements, matters, invoices, and spend\nConduct first-pass legal and regulatory research and organize findings for attorney review\nBuild and automate legal systems and workflows so the function scales\nDrive legal projects across Operations, Finance, Data Scaling, Engineering, and Manufacturing\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n5+ years of paralegal experience, including in-house experience\nCorporate and entity experience: formations, registrations, statutory filings, corporate records, and working with registered agents and local service providers\nHands-on contract administration experience, including building or running a repository, template set, and signature process\nHave run a compliance or filing calendar across multiple entities and not missed deadlines\nExceptional attention to detail, strong written communication and research skills, and good judgment about when to solve something yourself or when a lawyer needs to make the call\nComfortable building the system while using it - this is Build's first paralegal role, not a seat inside an established legal department, and it is in San Francisco in person\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\nSenior paralegal experience at a startup or rapidly growing technology company\nInternational entity formation and maintenance across China, India, Southeast Asia, LATAM, or Africa, and coordination with foreign counsel and corporate service providers\nApostille, consular legalization, and cross-border document logistics at volume, or a notary commission\nData privacy, consent, cross-border transfer, or data-provenance workflows\nVenture-backed company governance, financings, cap tables, investor diligence, or M&A diligence\nEOR, contractor, marketplace, or distributed-workforce operations\nBuilding legal operations, contract-management, entity-management, or compliance systems from scratch\nBenefits\nCompetitive pay\n\nMedical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n\n$500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\nHousing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\nRelocation support for those moving to San Francisco (Financial District) or Shenzhen (Nanshan)\n\nVarious wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\nDaily lunch and dinner in our office\n\nUnlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\nUnlimited Codex and Claude credits\n\nTravel\n\nHow we're different\nBuild believes in the Bitter Lesson. By taking a general approach of learning from humans, our addressable market is all physical labor.\nWe are a fully in-person team in San Francisco (Financial District) and Shenzhen (Nanshan), and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.\nBuild AI is an equal opportunity employer. We review every application. If you do not meet every bullet, still apply. 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