Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FutureSight is a company focused on transforming the legal industry through AI solutions. They are seeking a Technical Co-founder (CTO) to lead the technical direction and execution of their AI staffing platform, BloomLex, which aims to enhance operational efficiency for small law firms.
Responsibilities
- Write the first lines of production code, set the technical direction, and lead execution end-to-end
- Harden Ava's voice and workflow systems for in-production reliability. Establish core architecture, observability, and audit-trail standards
- Build the internal infrastructure that lets the team configure, monitor, and optimize AI performance without scaling engineering headcount
- Own the trade-offs between AI quality and cost-per-call, and lock in unit economics within the $499/month pricing model
- Represent the company in front of lawyers, partners, and investors as the technical voice of the venture
- Convert pilots into paying customers, expand the AI staff beyond the front desk, and begin a path toward custom and self-hosted models where legal and privacy requirements demand it
- Recruit and lead the founding engineering team, and establish the cultural foundation of the company
Skills
- Shipped LLM-powered and voice systems into production environments where incorrect outputs carried real consequences
- Full-stack confidence across applied LLMs, real-time voice and conversational AI, telephony, human-in-the-loop workflows, observability, and secure multi-tenant SaaS
- Well-formed convictions about reliability engineering, edge-case management, and the trade-offs between AI quality and cost-per-call
- Experience building managed and service-heavy platforms, with the discipline to scale delivery without scaling engineering headcount
- Prepared to operate as a principal — including saying 'this won't scale' or 'this isn't ready' when the integrity of the product requires it
- Prior founder or early-stage technical leadership experience
- Background in legal tech, healthcare, or another trust-sensitive vertical
- Capability to self-host custom models to meet legal and privacy needs
Company Overview