Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI

Finch Legal

• $120K — $145K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in building reliable and secure software in a production environment.
  • Proficiency in Python with familiarity in React, LLM APIs, and agent frameworks.
  • Experience shipping AI-powered products or agents past the prototype phase.
  • Capability to design practical evaluations for agent behavior and task completion quality.
  • Strong instincts for designing agents, focusing on context construction and failure recovery.
  • A history of simplifying complex, real-world workflows into effective systems.
  • An experimental mindset with a focus on quality outcomes over clever solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Build voice, browser, document, and workflow agents to advance personal injury cases.
  • Design comprehensive systems for agent functionality including context, tools, and human interactions.
  • Own the evaluation process to continually refine agent performance based on real case feedback.
  • Optimize agent performance through advanced strategies in model selection and routing.
  • Ensure reliability of agents across various inputs and potential operational failures.
  • Quickly implement advancements in AI to enhance speed and cost efficiency.

Benefits

  • 100% coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan for financial security.
  • Complimentary in-office snacks, drinks, and meals during lunch and dinner.
  • Flexible PTO policy allowing employees to take time as needed.
Full Job Description
This Role

Personal injury law is drowning in repetitive tasks, paper-based bottlenecks, and fragmented data - and we're building the software to fix it. As a Member of the Technical Staff at Finch, you'll own critical features end-to-end, ship fast, and work directly alongside product, ops, and design in a codebase where your decisions matter from day one.

What You'll Do

This is a full-stack role at a company where the product is evolving quickly and engineers have real ownership - expect the scope to grow as we do.
  • 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, third-party portals, partial failures, and changing case information.
  • Evaluate advances in agentic AI and rapidly ship the ones that improve quality, speed, or cost.


Who We Have in Mind

This role is for technical team members who want ownership over outcomes - here's what we think that requires.
Must-Haves
  • 3+ years 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.
Nice-to-Haves
  • 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 Might Not Be For You If
  • You do your best work with a well-defined spec and a stable, established codebase.
  • You prefer deep specialization in one layer of the stack over full-stack ownership.
  • You're looking for a remote-first role - this one is 4 days/week in our NYC office.


Benefits
  • 100% coverage for health, dental, and vision.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • In-office snacks, drinks, and daily team lunches and dinners.
  • Flexible PTO (we trust you to take the time you need).


Interview Process
  1. Intro: An initial call to see if there's a mutual fit.
  2. Interview: Technical session with a member of the team.
  3. Onsite: A visit to our NYC office to interview, meet the team, and have lunch.

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