Founding Engineer

Job description

Our client is looking for an experienced Founding Engineer to build a production-grade Voice AI legal intake platform.

This is the first engineering hire . The immediate challenge isn't simply building another AI prototype. It's taking an existing prototype and making it reliable enough for sensitive, real-world legal conversations where failures, privacy issues, or incorrect routing have meaningful consequences.

The Founding Engineer will also be forward-deployed: as the founder signs law firms, this engineer will ensure the Voice AI system actually works inside each firm's environment.

What You’ll Do - Take an existing conversational Voice AI intake receptionist from founder-built prototype → production - Production-grade infrastructure for live AI-powered client calls - Embedded web-based legal intake - Privacy and security controls for sensitive legal conversations - Infrastructure supporting sensitive client-fund workflows - Referral platform connecting attorneys, partner firms, and referred clients - Telephony integrations with partner law firms - Existing phone-system integrations - IVR configuration/integration - Additional AI workflows based directly on partner-firm feedback - Reliability and production monitoring for high-stakes AI conversations

Requirements

The Ideal Candidate:

The strongest target is likely an Applied AI / Voice AI engineer with 4–8+ years of engineering experience who has personally shipped production systems and wants founding-level ownership.

Requirements - 4+ years of professional software engineering experience - Recent applied AI experience at a strong company - Voice AI or telephony exposure is highly important - Proven ability to take an AI prototype into a reliable production system serving real users - Strong full-stack capability with ability to own the product end-to-end - Production experience involving privacy and security - Comfortable building workflows involving sensitive information and client funds - Strong customer-facing ability - Able to personally install/integrate the product into customer environments - Comfortable working with existing phone systems and telephony integrations - San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate - Minimum 4 days/week in-office - Comfortable with an intense founding-stage schedule beyond a conventional 9-to-5

Benefits

Salary: $250,000

Equity: 10%

Additional benefits disclosed during interview process