Founding Full-Stack Software Engineer, Legal AI Products
AI research and deployment company building AI-powered products, Bay Area
| Employer | AI research and deployment company building AI-powered products, Bay Area (not named) |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA (Bay Area) · On-site |
| Type & level | Full-time · Senior |
| Pay | USD 347k–445k + equity Source: pay range stated in the source posting |
| Visa path | O-1A fit (senior candidates) |
| Role family | Founding AI Engineer / Head of AI |
About the role
This is a founding engineering seat on a new team building AI-powered products for the legal industry. The team works like a small startup inside a larger AI lab, moving from prototypes to scaled products. The engineer helps set the technical foundation for a product area that is just starting.
What you'll do
- Build and ship full-stack products on top of the company's own AI models to solve problems in legal workflows.
- Own projects from early prototype through production deployment and iteration.
- Design user experiences and the frontend and backend systems behind them.
- Build reliable, scalable systems on internal platforms and APIs, adding new technical foundations where existing ones fall short.
- Work with product, design, research, applied AI and customers to turn user feedback into product decisions.
- Help set engineering culture, technical standards and product practices as an early team member.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Track record of building and shipping full-stack applications from early prototype to production.
- Strong frontend and backend skills and comfort working across the stack.
- Ability to work in ambiguous, open-ended problem spaces and turn broad ideas into shipped products.
- Strong product instincts and experience collaborating with users and cross-functional partners.
Nice to have
Pay & benefits
USD 347k–445k + equity. The posting lists a base salary range and says offers include equity. It does not describe other benefits.
Pay source: pay range stated in the source posting. Market data, not an offer from O1DMatch.
Visa path
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