Forum Ventures

Founding Engineer

Forum Ventures

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $160,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Architect the end-to-end technology stack for the Shepherd platform (LLM infrastructure, workflow engine, database design, API integrations (Slack, Docusign, etc).
  • Establish engineering best practices, technical roadmap, and long-term architecture decisions.
  • Build the foundation for a secure, compliant system that meets startup and enterprise legal standards.
  • Own the evaluation, fine-tuning, and deployment of LLMs for contract analysis, summarization, redlining, and risk scoring.
  • Build our core features: AI contract review and redlines, context-aware AI, smart drafting and document automation, workflow automation, legal hub for requests, docs, alerts, and lawyer interaction.
  • Design human-in-the-loop systems that blend AI speed with attorney validation.
  • Translate ambiguous legal workflows into clean, reliable, repeatable technical systems.
  • Work directly with early customers to validate and iterate on features in real time.
  • Set up infrastructure that meets SOC-2 and privacy standards.
  • Implement secure document storage, access controls, role-based permissions, and audit trails.
  • Ensure ethical, compliant, and trustworthy use of AI models across the platform.
  • Hire and lead a world-class engineering team as we scale (frontend, backend, ML/AI).

Requirements

  • 6–12+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer or technical founder (AI/ML or workflow-heavy SaaS strongly preferred).
  • Deep experience building production AI systems (LLM fine-tuning, embeddings, RAG, evaluation).
  • Strong product instincts with a bias toward shipping quickly and iterating.
  • Experience designing secure, scalable architectures for B2B or workflow products.
  • Comfortable in ambiguity: able to turn undefined problems into structured, elegant solutions.
  • Entrepreneurial DNA- you want to build, own, and scale something from the ground up.
  • Bonus: experience with legal tech, fintech, compliance systems, or other highly regulated verticals.
Benefits
  • Ground-Floor Equity: Ground-floor opportunity to build a generational company redefining legal infrastructure.
  • Category Creation: Help build the first AI-native hybrid law firm + SaaS platform for startups.
  • Technical Challenge: Blend LLMs, data, automation, and legal reasoning into one seamless workflow engine.
  • Massive Market: Startups and SMBs spend $25B+ per year on legal- and the shift toward automation is accelerating.
  • Mission-Driven Team: Work alongside founders building a more accessible, modern, and scalable legal system.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
LLM infrastructureAPI integrationsdatabase designAI contract reviewdocument automationworkflow automationfine-tuningembeddingsRAGevaluation
Soft skills
strong product instinctsbias toward shipping quicklycomfortable in ambiguityentrepreneurial DNAleadership