Product Engineer - AI

Alma is an AI-native law firm. We combine AI with an exceptional legal team to deliver fast, transparent, and high-touch legal services at a fraction of the cost and speed of legacy firms. Our first market is immigration law. We're focused on simplifying complex immigration processes for companies and individuals, and disrupting the $15B market that has never seen an amazing product. We are backed by leading VCs such as Bling Capital https://www.blingcap.com/, Forerunner https://www.forerunnerventures.com/, Village Global https://www.villageglobal.vc/, NFX https://www.nfx.com/, Conviction https://www.linkedin.com/company/convictionvc/, MVP Ventures https://www.mvp-vc.com/, NEA https://www.nea.com/ and Silkroad Innovation Hub. https://silkroadinnovationhub.com/ 🧠 FOUNDING TEAM The founding team has an extensive background in the legal industry, consulting, and building ML platforms. - Shuo https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuochen05/ - CTO & Cofounder: Shuo built the ML Platform (Michelangelo) at Uber for 5+ years after which he was the head of AI & ML team at a SupportLogic (a series B startup using predictive & generative AI for customer support). - Aizada https://www.linkedin.com/in/aizadamarat/ - CEO & Cofounder: Aizada is a graduate of Harvard Law School, an attorney with 7+ years of experience including working at a top law firm such as Cooley and an ex-McKinsey consultant. 🔍 WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR We're hiring a Product Engineer (AI) — an engineer who lives at the intersection of AI systems and user-facing product. You'll own features end-to-end, from designing agentic pipelines and RAG architectures to building the React interface the user interacts with. Your north star is the product: you measure your work by whether it makes customers' lives better, not by model benchmarks in isolation. You'll work directly with the founding team and early customers to ship a world-class AI-powered immigration platform and help us scale by 100x. You need to be deeply customer-obsessed. At Alma, "customer" means two groups. The first is our external customers — companies and individuals navigating immigration under high-stakes circumstances. The second is our internal legal team — attorneys and paralegals who use our platform every day. If an AI-generated document hallucinates a citation, that's not an ML problem — it's a customer problem. If an agent workflow saves a paralegal two hours a day, that's a feature worth shipping yesterday. The best engineers we'll hire will sit with the legal team, watch how they interact with our AI tools, and obsess over closing the gap between what the model produces and what the attorney actually needs. At Alma, the engineer who designs the agent also builds the UI that exposes it. You should be the kind of engineer who can design a multi-step agentic pipeline in the morning, debug a prompt regression after lunch, and wire up the frontend that lets a user review the output before dinner. With modern AI tooling, the traditional excuse of "frontend isn't my strength" no longer holds. You also need to build with AI, not just build AI. You should already be living inside modern coding harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.), wiring up MCP servers to extend your own workflow, and treating agents as a core part of how you ship. If your instinct is "let me spin up an agent to scaffold this, then review and harden it," keep reading. You see problems as work to do, not things to complain about. We move fast — our codebase has rough edges, our processes are still being invented, and not every corner is beautiful yet. We want engineers whose instinct, when they hit a messy module or a flaky eval, is "I'll fix it" — not "who wrote this?" If you're the kind of engineer who quietly improves the codebase around every feature you ship, you'll thrive here. ✅ RESPONSIBILITIES - Work closely with the founding team and early customers to build a world-class AI-powered product. - Own AI-powered features end-to-end — d...