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# Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI at Finch Legal

- **Company:** Finch Legal
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $180k–$280k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/finch-legal/38ebc72c-41ac-4c5a-8fec-f0e2a3048cbe

## Job description

## About Finch

Our mission is to make justice radically more accessible to every American household. We combine expert operators with purpose-built AI to automate the admin work of consumer law and put clients first by handling intake, claim opening, medical records, police reports, lien management, demands, and everything in between. Since launching in April 2025, we’ve raised a [$20M Series A](https://sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-finch-ai-powered-justice) backed by Sequoia, Redpoint, and the founders & CEOs of DoorDash, Ironclad, and Digits and are running pre-litigation for over 125 of the [highest-volume personal injury firms](https://www.finchlegal.com/customers) across the country. Explore [life at Finch](https://app.notion.com/p/Life-at-Finch-32fe7a322002810cabf6f9547800f2a2?pvs=21) for more.

A note from Ben Hey, I’m [Ben](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benweems/), CTO at Finch. I’m hiring engineers who can (a) understand what needs to be built and why, (b) ship quality work fast, and (c) own the outcomes tied to measurable legal impact. We have an exceptionally talented group of high-personality, collaborative engineers. Nothing matters more to me than keeping that true as we grow. The three reasons engineers generally come to (and stay at) Finch are:

- High ownership and freedom to build. We give you a problem-space and lots of room to shape the product solution.
- Meaningful impact and a tight feedback loop. Your work supports real people through difficult moments in their life (i.e. personal injury cases), and you sit next to users.
- Applied AI work and room to experiment. We are building at the cutting edge of legal AI application.

If this sounds exciting, please apply.

## What you'll do

Personal injury law is full of repetitive tasks, paper-based bottlenecks, and fragmented data. As a Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI, you’ll build agents that move cases forward and make those workflows dependable. You’ll own critical features end-to-end, ship fast, and work directly alongside strategy & operations, product, design, and legal teammates in a codebase where your decisions matter from day one.

- Build production-grade voice, browser, document, and workflow agents that move personal injury cases forward.
- Design long-horizon agent systems, including context, tools, memory, permissions, structured outputs, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Own the eval flywheel: turn real cases and operator feedback into benchmarks that continuously improve agent quality.
- Optimize performance through model selection and routing, context engineering, prompting, tool design, and agent observability.
- Make agents reliable across calls, documents, communications, and third-party portals, including when systems fail or case information changes.
- Evaluate advances in agentic AI and rapidly ship the ones that improve quality, speed, or cost.

What will make you successful This role is for technical team members who want ownership over outcomes - here's what we think that requires. You’ll likely thrive if you have

- 2+ years of experience building reliable, secure software in production, with the ability to own systems across the stack.
- Experience shipping AI-powered products or agents beyond the prototype stage.
- Experience designing practical evals and using them to understand agent behavior, compare approaches, and improve task-completion quality.
- Proficiency in Python and comfort working with React, LLM APIs, and agent frameworks.
- Strong instincts for agent design, including context construction, model selection, tool boundaries, structured outputs, failure recovery, and human handoffs.
- A track record of turning ambiguous, real-world workflows into simple, dependable systems.
- An experimental mindset: you move quickly, measure what matters, and care more about whether an agent completes the job correctly than whether the approach is clever.

It’s a plus if you have

- Experience with Pydantic AI or another production agent framework.
- Experience building voice agents, browser agents, or long-running workflow agents.
- Familiarity with Django, React, Temporal, Playwright, or AWS.
- Experience building evaluation systems, agent observability, model routing, or human-in-the-loop review tools.
- Familiarity with legal tech, healthcare workflows, document processing, or other operationally complex domains.

This role may not be for you if

- You prefer a role where the roadmap, process, and success metrics are already defined.
- You are looking for a narrow remit rather than meaningful ownership across a fast-moving team.
- You’re looking for a remote-first role. We work together in our NYC office four days a week.

What happens next We aim to run a human, efficient process. That generally includes:

- Intro: An initial conversation about your background, motivation, and the role.
- Technical interview: A practical, technical session with an engineer.
- Onsite: A visit to our NYC office to interview, meet the team, and have lunch.

## About Finch Legal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Finch Legal automates pre-litigation for plaintiff personal injury law firms by combining elite paralegals with AI agents to handle cases from intake through demand letters.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Viraj Bindra (Co-Founder & CEO), Ben Weems (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Legal Technology (LegalTech), Personal Injury Pre-Litigation Services
- **Target customers**: Plaintiff personal injury law firms of all sizes (B2B)
- **Mission/Purpose**: To empower personal injury firms to resolve cases faster, grow capacity, and serve more clients by putting pre-litigation on autopilot.

## Products & Services
- **Pre-Litigation Autopilot (Platform-as-a-Service)**: A comprehensive service that takes over the entire pre-litigation workflow. This includes:
    - **24/7 Bilingual Intake**: Bilingual (English/Spanish) paralegals handle intake calls around the clock, qualifying leads and signing clients.
    - **Claims & Insurance**: Automated opening of insurance claims, sending representation letters, and tracking communications with adjusters.
    - **Medical Records Retrieval**: AI-assisted retrieval and organization of medical records from providers, with human oversight.
    - **Police & Investigation Reports**: Automated collection of police reports and incident records.
    - **Medical Chronologies**: Creation of litigation-grade, source-linked timelines from medical records.
    - **Demand Letter Creation**: AI-generated demand letters reviewed by legal professionals, designed to maximize settlement value.
    - **Client Treatment Check-ins**: Bi-weekly check-ins with clients to track treatment progress and secure records.
- **Litigation Support**: Preparation of discovery requests, coordination of expert witnesses, deposition summaries, and mediation position statements.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric (Funding)**: Total Funding of **$23.7 Million** (Series A led by Redpoint, with participation from Sequoia Capital, among others).
    - **Seed Round**: Led by Sequoia Capital (April 2025).
    - **Series A**: $23.7M led by Redpoint (July 2025).
- **Notable Investors**: Sequoia Capital (led by Alfred Lin), Redpoint, and angel investors including Tony Xu (CEO of DoorDash), Jason Boehmig (CEO of Ironclad), and Christopher Payne (Board Member for Robinhood).
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Headcount grew **718.2% year-over-year** to 65 employees.
    - LinkedIn followers grew **1103.7% year-over-year**.
    - Claims client firms are growing **40% month over month** using Finch.
    - Recently expanded out of private access to partner with firms nationwide.
    - **12 active job postings** with strong quarterly growth (+71.4%).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hybrid Model**: Combines experienced legal operators (from firms like Morgan & Morgan) with cutting-edge AI agents, offering a level of service and accuracy that pure software or pure outsourcing can't match.
- **End-to-End Integration**: Handles the entire pre-litigation lifecycle from intake to demand, acting as a fully outsourced team rather than a point solution.
- **Seamless CMS Integration**: Works within a firm's existing Case Management System (CMS) like Filevine or Smokeball, requiring no new software to learn.
- **Pay-for-Value Pricing**: Charges a flat fee per case (with an option to pay at settlement), which reduces financial risk for firms compared to hiring full-time staff.
- **Enterprise-Grade Security**: SOC 2 certified with closed-loop large language models to protect PII.
- **Elite Backing & Talent**: Founded by leaders from top tech companies (Google, DoorDash) and top plaintiff firms, with backing from Sequoia Capital.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling Nationwide**: Moving from private access to serving personal injury firms across the United States.
- **Product Expansion**: Continuing to develop the AI agent capabilities and litigation support offerings (discovery, expert witnesses, etc.).
- **Deepening CMS Integrations**: Ensuring compatibility with the widest range of case management software.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring for engineering, legal operations, and sales roles to support rapid growth.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Role**: Engineers and operators work on a platform that directly increases access to justice for personal injury victims by making firms more efficient.
- **Rapid Growth Stage**: Join a company that grew 718% in headcount in one year, offering immense opportunities for ownership, career growth, and impact.
- **Strong Engineering Culture**: The team includes talent from Google, Stanford, and other top tech companies. The tech stack is modern (Python/Django, React, AWS, OpenAI).
- **In-Person Collaboration**: Engineering roles are based in Manhattan, NYC, with a four-day in-office requirement (M-Th) designed for cross-functional collaboration and speed.
- **Founding Engineer Experience**: Actively hiring "founding engineers" who will own major features from design to deployment, offering a rare chance to build the core platform of a fast-growing startup.
- **Competitive Compensation**: Base salary of $150,000–$220,000 for engineers, well-above-market equity packages, and 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums.
- **Perks**: Flexible PTO, in-office snacks and drinks, and a $100/month tooling stipend.
- **Diverse Team**: Founders and key executives come from top-tier legal and tech backgrounds, creating a culture that values both operational excellence and technical innovation.

## Sources
1. [finchlegal.com](https://www.finchlegal.com/)
2. [finchlegal.com](https://www.finchlegal.com/engineering-careers)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/finchlegal)
4. [finchlegal.com](https://www.finchlegal.com/pre-litigation)

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