Founding Head of Engineering

Founding Head of Engineering
Location:

Los Angeles > West Coast > US & Canada

Type:

Full-time

About Inhouse
Inhouse is the #1 AI lawyer for small to midsize businesses. We combine AI, our own law firm, and an expert feedback loop to deliver fast, compliant, high-quality legal work at a fraction of the cost and turnaround time of traditional firms.

We grew revenue 1,500% last year and recently raised a $5M seed round from leading VCs and the former CEO & Cofounder of LegalZoom.

About the Role
General-purpose LLMs are not reliable for high-stakes legal work. We are building expert-in-the-loop AI systems that continuously improve through lawyer feedback, strong retrieval, structured evaluation, and production-grade engineering.

We are looking for a founding Head of Engineering to take our systems to the next level. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who has built agentic AI systems in production.

You will own architecture and delivery, build and manage the engineering team, and define how AI systems are built at Inhouse. You will work directly with lawyers to translate legal workflows into reliable, production-grade AI systems.

What Youll Do

Own software architecture and delivery: design, deploy, and operate systems at scale

Design and evolve our AI systems, including:

prompting and orchestration logic

context and retrieval systems (search, integrations, memory)

evaluation infrastructure (LLM-as-judge, regression testing)

expert feedback systems (building eval sets from their natural workflow)

Stay on the frontier of AI and legal AI

Hire, manage, and grow the engineering team (currently 3 FTEs)

What Were Looking For
Required

10+ years of software engineering experience (3+ years in Python)

5+ years in a technical leadership role with ownership over architecture, delivery, and production systems

Experience hiring and managing engineers

Built agentic AI systems in production, including:

goal-directed reasoning, planning, and tool use

multi-agent or sub-agent architectures

context management and memory systems

Built evaluation systems (e.g. LLM-as-judge, automated evals, regression testing)

Worked in an AI-native development environment (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.)

Product mindset - ideally from a successful startup environment

Enough frontend or workflow UI experience to collaborate across the product stack

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive salary + meaningful founding-level equity

Fully covered health, dental, and vision

Unlimited PTO

High-impact work at the core of a rapidly growing legal AI company

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