Technical Co-Founder (AI)

TL;DR

Technical Co-Founder (AI): Building an AI-driven operating system for family law with an accent on automation of client intake, financial disclosures, and document preparation. Focus on architecting AI agent infrastructure, scaling a 0→1 engineering team, and defining the technical foundation for a regulated legal-tech platform.

Location: Must be based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate to the USA

Compensation: Estimated $160K – $220K (Base salary ~$4,000/month during pre-seed phase)

Company

Early-stage AI startup building an operating system for family law to modernize and scale legal practices through intelligent automation.

What you will do

• Own and define the end-to-end technical architecture of the platform.
• Write and ship production code daily alongside the founding team.
• Architect and scale AI agent infrastructure for legal workflows, including billing, financial layers, and document automation.
• Build the engineering team from scratch, overseeing hiring, mentoring, and culture.
• Partner with founders on the product roadmap, fundraising narrative, and company strategy.
• Ensure security, compliance, and scalability for a document-heavy platform in a regulated industry.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3–5+ years in technical leadership.
• Deeply hands-on approach with a track record of shipping production code.
• Proven experience building AI-native, workflow-heavy, or document-centric SaaS products.
• Proficiency with modern AI/ML stacks: LLMs, RAG, and agentic frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, OpenAI/Claude APIs).
• Strong backend and cloud infrastructure expertise (Python, Node.js, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS).
• Must be based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate.

Nice to have

• Exposure to legal tech, compliance-heavy, or regulated-industry products.
• Experience with document automation platforms.
• Prior founding experience or early employee (1–50 person company).
• Background at Big Tech or high-growth SaaS.

Culture & Benefits

• Founder-level equity (8-10%) significantly above market rates.
• True co-founder title and seat with full ownership and influence.
• High-velocity, builder-first environment focused on rapid iteration.
• Direct impact on transforming access to justice in legal services.
• Recognition by TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield and Stanford CodeX FutureLaw.

Hiring process

• Introductory call.
• Technical deep-dive.
• Take-home or live build exercise.
• In-person Co-Founder Day in San Francisco.
• Reference checks and final offer.