InHouseAI

Role Description 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. - 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) Qualifications - 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 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 Company Description 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.