AI Platform Engineering Leader — Legal Tech & Impact

Menlo Ventures; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Equity

401(k) Program with Employer Matching

Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insur­

Short Term and Long Term Disability

Commuter Benefits*

Autonomous Work Environment

Workplace Setup Reimbursement

Telecomm Stipend

Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays

Quarterly Team Gatherings

In office Perks*

Job summary

Eve is redefining legal technology for plaintiff law firms, and we’re building the team that will take us there. As a Senior Engineering Leader, you’ll lead the platform engineering organization—owning data ingestion, OCR, vector stores, and infrastructure to power Eve’s AI workflows.

You’ll partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to turn ambitious ideas into scalable, customer-loved products. You’ll hire and develop world-class talent, scale engineering at startup speed, and raise the bar

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading multiple teams or managers in a high-growth startup or similar environment.
• Builder mindset: Comfortable diving into technical details when needed, but focused on creating leverage and clarity for others.
• A leader who knows when to coach, intervene, or move out of the way, enabling engineers to operate with ownership and pride.
• Strong product and business intuition: You care as much about what we build as how we build it.
• Passion for AI-driven products and a desire to help shape how this technology transforms an entire industry.

Responsibilities

• Build the platform foundation for AI-native legal work: Own the job framework, data platform, ingestion systems, and retrieval infrastructure that power Eve’s AI workflows, including OCR, transcription, structured extraction, vector stores, search, and scalable document processing.
• Drive product and technical strategy: Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to turn ambitious ideas into scalable, customer-loved products.
• Hire and develop world-class talent: Recruit, mentor, and grow exceptional engineers and managers. Foster a culture where speed and quality coexist.
• Scale engineering at startup speed: Lead multiple high-performing teams building Eve's most critical systems.
• Raise the bar for excellence: Build the systems, frameworks, and culture that enable a fast-growing organization to ship with precision and confidence.
• Be a multiplier: Create conditions for teams to move faster with autonomy, ownership, and clarity.

Skills

Leadership experience

Builder mindset

Coaching / mentoring

Product & business intuition

AI-driven products

Job description

Eve is redefining legal technology for plaintiff law firms, and we’re building the team that will take us there. As a Senior Engineering Leader, you’ll lead the platform engineering organization—owning data ingestion, OCR, vector stores, and infrastructure to power Eve’s AI workflows.

You’ll partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to turn ambitious ideas into scalable, customer-loved products. You’ll hire and develop world-class talent, scale engineering at startup speed, and raise the bar