{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"0efca75d95154305cd0a55ed","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/0efca75d95154305cd0a55ed","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/0efca75d95154305cd0a55ed","title":"Founding Engineer","description":"About the CompanyWe’re building the first primary care-style law firm. It is a team of attorneys spanning 16 practice areas,including family law, employment law, personal injury, and immigration, whose only job is to meet one-on-onewith people seeking a lawyer, diagnose exactly what they need, and triage them to the right outside firm ornonprofit. Advice sessions are free to consumers. The firm earns revenue by sharing in the fees partner firmsgenerate from referred clients, between 15 and 35 percent depending on practice area, a structure only availablebecause we are a law firm under the attorney ethical rules. Distribution is the most novel part of the model. We run no paid advertising. Instead, it gives other law firms a free AI intake receptionist, a conversational voice agent that connects to their phone system alongside an embeddable web form. Between 10 and 20 percent of the calls consumer-facing firms receive fall outside the services they offer, and when a caller's needs do not match the services offered and the caller consents, the caller is transferred to us in real time. The company is bootstrapped and founded by a former startup and venture capital attorney. Sixteen practitioners have already signed on across practice areas, the first version of the intake receptionist is built and working, and early outreach to partner firms is converting at a 15 to 20 percent reply rate.About the RoleThis is the company's first engineering hire, reporting directly to the Founder, who is currently the only full-timeperson in the business. The immediate mandate is to take the existing voice AI intake receptionist from a workingfounder-built prototype to a production-grade system. These are sensitive, high-stakes conversations with peoplein legal distress, so reliability, privacy, and security are the central engineering problems, not afterthoughts.Alongside the receptionist, the role owns the platform that facilitates referrals between our company and partnerfirms, including the handling of sensitive client funds. The role is also forward-deployed. Go-to-market runs through the intake product: the Founder will spend the first six to nine months full-time signing firms onto the referral network and offering the receptionist for free, and the Founding Engineer is the person who follows through and installs it at each firm. For solo practitioners that can be as simple as call forwarding. For larger firms it means integrating with existing phone systems and IVR menus. Installation is primarily remote, with occasional on-site work for the largest firms.What You'll OwnThe conversational voice AI intake receptionist end-to-end, from prototype to production-grade reliabilityacross live client calls and the embedded web formPrivacy and security hardening for sensitive client interactions, and the infrastructure for handling client fundsThe referral platform connecting partner firms, LegalCare attorneys, and referred clientsInstallation and integration of the intake receptionist at each partner firm, including existing phone systems and IVR configurationsAdditional product workflows beyond initial qualification, iterated directly against feedback from firms in thenetworkRequirements (Must-Have)4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with recent work in applied AI at a strong companyDemonstrated ability to take a working prototype to production-grade reliability in a system where failuresreach real users, including privacy and security hardeningFull-stack capability to build and iterate a customer-facing platform end-to-end, including workflows that touchsensitive client fundsClient-facing follow-through: comfortable going into partner firms to install and integrate the product againsttheir existing telephony setupsBased in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate, in office at least 4 days per week, and workingbeyond a standard nine to fiveNice-to-HaveVoice AI experience, for example, from companies working on conversational voice agentsHealthcare AI experience, particularly clinical intake, scribing, or triage, where raw patient narratives aretranslated into discrete clinical asksLegal AI experienceTelephony and IVR integration experienceBenefits & Perks$250,000 base salary plus 10% equity + other benefits Fill in the form, we will contact you...","company":"Product Pulse","rawCompany":"product pulse","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-22T12:20:11.465Z","occupations":[{"code":"23-1011.00","title":"Lawyers","slug":"lawyers"},{"code":"17-2199.00","title":"Engineers, All Other","slug":"engineers-all-other"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541110","title":"Offices of Lawyers","slug":"offices-of-lawyers"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Founding Engineer","description":"About the CompanyWe’re building the first primary care-style law firm. 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