Founding Engineer

JeffreyM Consulting; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

JeffreyM Consulting seeks an experienced Founding Engineer to build a production-grade Voice AI legal intake platform. This is the first engineering hire and will own end-to-end delivery in privacy-conscious environments.

You'll deploy live AI-powered client calls, integrate with phone systems, and ensure reliability for high-stakes legal conversations while collaborating with partner firms in the San Francisco Bay Area or relocation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Recent applied AI experience at a strong company.
• Voice AI or telephony exposure is highly important.
• Proven ability to take an AI prototype into a reliable production system serving real users.
• Strong full-stack capability and end-to-end ownership.
• Production experience involving privacy and security.
• Willingness to relocate to SF Bay Area.
• Minimum 4 days/week in-office.
• Comfortable with an intense founding-stage schedule beyond a conventional 9-to-5.

Responsibilities

• Take an existing conversational Voice AI intake receptionist from founder-built prototype → production
• Production-grade infrastructure for live AI-powered client calls
• Embedded web-based legal intake
• Privacy and security controls for sensitive legal conversations
• Infrastructure supporting sensitive client-fund workflows
• Referral platform connecting attorneys, partner firms, and referred clients
• Telephony integrations with partner law firms
• Existing phone-system integrations
• IVR configuration/integration
• Additional AI workflows based directly on partner-firm feedback
• Reliability and production monitoring for high-stakes AI conversations

Skills

4+ years experience

Applied AI

Voice AI

Full-stack

Security/privacy

Customer-facing

In-office presence

Relocation willingness

Job description

Our client is looking for an experienced Founding Engineer to build a production-grade Voice AI legal intake platform.

This is the first engineering hire. The immediate challenge isn't simply building another AI prototype. It's taking an existing prototype and making it reliable enough for sensitive, real-world legal conversations where failures, privacy issues, or incorrect routing have meaningful consequences.

The Founding Engineer will also be forward-deployed: as the founder signs law firms, this engineer will ensure the Voice AI system actually works inside each firm's environment.

What You’ll Do

• Take an existing conversational Voice AI intake receptionist from founder-built prototype → production
• Production-grade infrastructure for live AI-powered client calls
• Embedded web-based legal intake
• Privacy and security controls for sensitive legal conversations
• Infrastructure supporting sensitive client-fund workflows
• Referral platform connecting attorneys, partner firms, and referred clients
• Telephony integrations with partner law firms
• Existing phone-system integrations
• IVR configuration/integration
• Additional AI workflows based directly on partner-firm feedback
• Reliability and production monitoring for high-stakes AI conversations

The Ideal Candidate:

The strongest target is likely an Applied AI / Voice AI engineer with 4–8+ years of engineering experience who has personally shipped production systems and wants founding-level ownership.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Recent applied AI experience at a strong company
• Voice AI or telephony exposure is highly important
• Proven ability to take an AI prototype into a reliable production system serving real users
• Strong full-stack capability with ability to own the product end-to-end
• Production experience involving privacy and security
• Comfortable building workflows involving sensitive information and client funds
• Strong customer-facing ability
• Able to personally install/integrate the product into customer environments
• Comfortable working with existing phone systems and telephony integrations
• San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate
• Minimum 4 days/week in-office
• Comfortable with an intense founding-stage schedule beyond a conventional 9-to-5

Salary: $250,000

Equity: 10%

Additional benefits disclosed during interview process