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Head of Engineering / Founding Engineer | Litigation Finance | LA preferred, NYC, or remote

Onsite or remote • Los Angeles+2🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $200,000–$200,000🗓 2026-06-25

Core

Building the entire technical stack from scratch for a tech-enabled litigation funder using AI to transform the legal asset industry.

Role type

Founding Head of Engineering (IC)

Builds

AI-native legal asset platform spanning origination, case underwriting, law firm operations, and capital markets

Domain

Legal technology / Litigation finance / AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Full-stack engineering, AI-native engineering, system architecture, team building, startup founding experience

Preferred skills

Experience in legal AI or legal tech, quant/trading firms, prior founder or repeat founding engineer

Technologies

AI frameworks, cloud infrastructure, full-stack web technologies

Responsibilities

Own the entire technical stack, define architecture and stack choices, shape the engineering team, ship production code

Seniority

Founding, hands-on IC with strategic ownership

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## About the Role Tech-enabled litigation funder that uses AI to transform the archaic legal asset industry. Already deployed $40M across thousands of claims and are scaling rapidly. As first engineering hire, you'll own the entire technical stack, building from scratch. You'll work directly with the founders, owning the architecture, choice of stack, shaping the team, and shipping code that runs in production for real customers. This role has a direct path to CTO. ## What we offer - $200k-$275k base salary plus 0.5%-2.0% equity (flexible for the right person) - Work in-person in NYC or LA, or remote with quarterly travel for team kickoffs ## About the Company Technology-enabled alternative asset investment firm focused on niche, uncorrelated investment opportunities in specialty finance, with an initial focus on litigation finance. Vertically integrated AI legal asset platform building technology to change the legal industry. The product spans the full plaintiff-side legal value chain (origination, case underwriting, law firm operations, capital markets). To date, has deployed tens of millions of dollars across thousands of meritorious legal claims in partnership with some of the nation's top law firms. ## Job The Head of Engineering will be responsible for building all aspects of the product. Tech background: Comfprtable on the entire stack, AI-native engineering with knowledge if the fundamentals ## Total Funding $53M ## Employees 2 employees ## Location - LA (ideal) or NYC in-person preffered, but open to remote in US with quarterly in-person meets. ## Ideal Companies & Backgrounds - Legal AI or legal tech companies - Quant / trading firms - Ex-founders / repeat founding engineers ## Contact Please get in touch with Hollie with any questions, more info on founders, company etc, or if you'd like to apply
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