Co-founder seat as first technical leader at an early-stage San Francisco AI startup building an AI operating system for family law firms. The role owns end-to-end architecture, AI agent infrastructure for legal workflows, and building the engineering team from scratch. Named stack includes Python, Node.js, GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, LLMs, RAG, LangChain/LangGraph, and OpenAI/Claude APIs.
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Our client is an early-stage, San Francisco-based AI startup building the operating system for family law. Their platform automates the most time-intensive parts of legal practice β client intake, financial disclosures, document preparation, case management, and client collaboration β helping family law firms modernize and scale without adding headcount. Founded in 2025, the company is already working with real customers and actively closing a seed round, with $XM signed to date.
To reduce the emotional and financial burden of divorce for millions of families β and empower the legal professionals who serve them β by transforming a fragmented, manual process into a guided, intelligent, AI-driven experience.
This is a co-founder seat, not a hire.
You're joining at the inflection point: real product, real customers, seed round closing. As the first technical leader, you'll own the full stack β architecture, AI infrastructure, engineering culture, and execution velocity. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founding team to define how AI reshapes one of the largest, most underserved verticals in legal services.
If you've been waiting for a founding opportunity where the market is real, the mission matters, and the equity is worth the bet β this is it.
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Compensation: $160K - $220K