Founding Attorney Jobs
Founding attorney jobs are open across law firms, startups, nonprofits, and corporate legal departments, from associate to partner-level, with specializations in venture and startup law, employment law, and intellectual property. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
Find Founding Attorney JobsOverview
Showing 5 of 511+ Founding Attorney jobs
About Raindrop
Raindrop is the monitoring platform for AI agents. Engineering teams at Fortune 100s and the fastest-growing AI companies (Vercel, Speak, Clay) use it to catch silent failures in production. When an agent misbehaves, Raindrop alerts the team, links to the trace, and surfaces the root cause so they can fix it fast. With Raindrop 2.0 (Self-Healing Agents), the loop closes itself: your coding agent fixes it, and the fix becomes an eval to prevent regressions.
Why It Matters
AI agents fail constantly in ways both hilarious and terrifying. Regular software throws exceptions. But AI agents fail silently, leaving engineers with almost no visibility into how their agents are actually performing.
The current status quo is sifting through millions of logs and trying to debug flaky evals that just aren't matching real world results. Evals are like unit tests, they confirm your model got specific test cases right. But in the real world agents call thousands of tools, run for hours, and encounter millions of unpredictable actions.
That’s where Raindrop comes in. It learns the unique shape of each AI agent’s issues. Starting from presets like Laziness, Forgetting, or Task Failure, to automatically tuning itself to each agent and discovering unknown unknowns.
With one click of a button, AI engineers start tracking issues or topics across 100% of their production data. They can see frequency over time, how many users are affected, relevant properties and more.
In order to process hundreds of millions of events, we gradually train small, custom models, private to each company, that learn to uniquely understand how their product is used.
As part of the early team, you’ll play a fundamental role in shaping the company - from making strategy and product decisions, to helping scale the team, to shaping the future of AI agents.
Our Investors
We've raised $50M total, led by CRV, with backing from Lightspeed, Figma Ventures, Vercel Ventures, and the founders of Replit (Amjad Masad, Michele Catasta), Cognition (Walden Yan), Framer (Koen Bok, Jorn van Dijk), Speak (Andrew Hsu), and Notion (Akshay Kothari).
About the role
We're looking for our first Sales Engineer to be the technical partner to our early sales team. You'll run technical discovery, demo Raindrop to engineering teams, and build POC's to close deals. As our first Sales Engineer, you'll build how we sell technically from the ground up and ensure it's a scalable journey along the way.
Your Focus
Technical discovery and demos: Learn how a customer's agents work and where they fail silently, then show them how Raindrop catches it and their path to correcting it.
Proofs of concept: Run evaluations end to end, and make sure customers see value before they sign.
Turning customer asks into product: Spot when a customer request points to something many customers need. Prototype it, then help it become part of the platform.
Building the function: Create the demos, playbooks and technical content the sales team will use.
Your responsibilities
Partner with AEs from discovery to close and own the technical side of the deal.
Build conviction with technical buyers by answering their hardest questions and showing how Raindrop solves their problems.
Build prototypes and integrations for customer requests. Ship them into the product when you can.
Know when a request needs a deeper backend or ML change, and bring in the right engineers.
Bring patterns from deals back to the team, along with an opinion on what to build.
Work closely with leadership and own high-impact work from day one.
Ideal Candidate
Top 0.1% communicator who can win over a room of skeptical engineers.
Strong engineer who can read a codebase, build a working prototype in days, and earn our engineers' trust.
Sales instincts: you know how deals move, and when to lead and when to let the AE run the room.
You've sold a developer tool or infrastructure product to engineers, ideally as an early SE who built the playbook.
You make problems disappear. Customers bring you something messy, and you come back with it solved.
You understand how agents fail in production and can explain it to the people building them.
Use and build AI agents and tools
About Raindrop
Raindrop is the monitoring platform for AI agents. Engineering teams at Fortune 100s and the fastest-growing AI companies (Vercel, Speak, Clay) use it to catch silent failures in production. When an agent misbehaves, Raindrop alerts the team, links to the trace, and surfaces the root cause so they can fix it fast. With Raindrop 2.0 (Self-Healing Agents), the loop closes itself: your coding agent fixes it, and the fix becomes an eval to prevent regressions.
Why It Matters
AI agents fail constantly in ways both hilarious and terrifying. Regular software throws exceptions. But AI agents fail silently, leaving engineers with almost no visibility into how their agents are actually performing.
The current status quo is sifting through millions of logs and trying to debug flaky evals that just aren't matching real world results. Evals are like unit tests, they confirm your model got specific test cases right. But in the real world agents call thousands of tools, run for hours, and encounter millions of unpredictable actions.
That’s where Raindrop comes in. It learns the unique shape of each AI agent’s issues. Starting from presets like Laziness, Forgetting, or Task Failure, to automatically tuning itself to each agent and discovering unknown unknowns.
With one click of a button, AI engineers start tracking issues or topics across 100% of their production data. They can see frequency over time, how many users are affected, relevant properties and more.
In order to process hundreds of millions of events, we gradually train small, custom models, private to each company, that learn to uniquely understand how their product is used.
As part of the early team, you’ll play a fundamental role in shaping the company - from making strategy and product decisions, to helping scale the team, to shaping the future of AI agents.
Our Investors
We've raised $50M total, led by CRV, with backing from Lightspeed, Figma Ventures, Vercel Ventures, and the founders of Replit (Amjad Masad, Michele Catasta), Cognition (Walden Yan), Framer (Koen Bok, Jorn van Dijk), Speak (Andrew Hsu), and Notion (Akshay Kothari).
About the role
We're looking for our first Sales Engineer to be the technical partner to our early sales team. You'll run technical discovery, demo Raindrop to engineering teams, and build POC's to close deals. As our first Sales Engineer, you'll build how we sell technically from the ground up and ensure it's a scalable journey along the way.
Your Focus
Technical discovery and demos: Learn how a customer's agents work and where they fail silently, then show them how Raindrop catches it and their path to correcting it.
Proofs of concept: Run evaluations end to end, and make sure customers see value before they sign.
Turning customer asks into product: Spot when a customer request points to something many customers need. Prototype it, then help it become part of the platform.
Building the function: Create the demos, playbooks and technical content the sales team will use.
Your responsibilities
Partner with AEs from discovery to close and own the technical side of the deal.
Build conviction with technical buyers by answering their hardest questions and showing how Raindrop solves their problems.
Build prototypes and integrations for customer requests. Ship them into the product when you can.
Know when a request needs a deeper backend or ML change, and bring in the right engineers.
Bring patterns from deals back to the team, along with an opinion on what to build.
Work closely with leadership and own high-impact work from day one.
Ideal Candidate
Top 0.1% communicator who can win over a room of skeptical engineers.
Strong engineer who can read a codebase, build a working prototype in days, and earn our engineers' trust.
Sales instincts: you know how deals move, and when to lead and when to let the AE run the room.
You've sold a developer tool or infrastructure product to engineers, ideally as an early SE who built the playbook.
You make problems disappear. Customers bring you something messy, and you come back with it solved.
You understand how agents fail in production and can explain it to the people building them.
Use and build AI agents and tools
See All 511+ Founding Attorney Jobs
Find roles that match your experience and apply in just a few clicks.
Find Founding Attorney JobsFounding Attorney Job Market
Who's Hiring
- DESORT STAFFING21
- RNB Consultancy21R
- CLERA19C
- David Joseph & Company18D
- Alldus14
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software15
- Science & Research6
- Education2
- Staffing & Recruiting2
- Distribution & Wholesale2
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in founding attorney jobs.
- Juris Doctor degree and active bar admission in at least one U.S. state
- Three to seven years of experience in a law firm or in-house legal role
- Demonstrated ability to draft and negotiate commercial contracts independently
- Experience advising on employment law, equity, or regulatory compliance matters
- Comfort operating as a solo or first legal hire with limited support
- Familiarity with entity formation, corporate governance, and fundraising documentation
Tips for Your Founding Attorney Job Search
Tailor your resume to the entity stage
Founding attorney roles vary by whether the organization is pre-revenue, Series A, or established. Your resume should call out the entity stage you've supported, not just your practice area. Hiring teams want to see you've operated where structure doesn't yet exist.
Show your transactional volume and breadth
Founding attorney candidates often lose out by underselling deal volume. List the number and types of agreements you've drafted or negotiated, from NDAs and term sheets to employment and vendor contracts. Breadth of transaction type signals that you can handle a solo or first-hire legal function.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists founding attorney openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies at a legal inflection point
The best founding attorney openings come from organizations that just hit a legal tipping point: a fundraise, a product launch, or a compliance gap. When you find a role, research the company's recent news to confirm you're applying at the right moment and frame your cover letter around it.
Prepare a legal-ops sample for your interview
Many hiring teams for founding attorney roles will ask how you'd build out the function from scratch. Bring a one-page legal-ops framework you've used or would use, covering triage, vendor relationships, and policy templates. It demonstrates readiness to operate independently on day one.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Founding attorney offers often leave reporting structure, budget authority, and outside counsel relationships undefined. Before you accept, get written clarity on what you own, what you can spend, and when headcount review happens. Scope ambiguity is harder to fix after you start than compensation.
Founding Attorney Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most founding attorneys?
DESORT STAFFING, RNB Consultancy, and CLERA are hiring the most founding attorneys right now, with openings concentrated in California, New York, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially strong at growth-stage companies building out their first internal legal function.
How many founding attorney jobs are remote?
About 58% of founding attorney openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting employer flexibility for legal roles that don't require daily on-site presence. Contract review, policy drafting, and outside counsel management are the sub-areas most commonly offered on a fully remote basis.
How do you become a founding attorney?
Start by earning a Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and passing the bar exam in your target state. Build broad transactional experience at a law firm or in an in-house role, covering contracts, employment, and corporate governance. Seek out environments where you've had direct client or business-unit contact, since founding attorney roles expect you to advise without supervision from day one.
Can you get a founding attorney job with limited experience?
It's possible if you can demonstrate breadth over depth. Candidates with two to four years of experience who have drafted varied agreement types, managed outside counsel relationships, or supported a compliance build-out are competitive. Emphasize any project where you operated without close supervision and explain the business outcome your legal work produced.
What does the founding attorney interview process look like?
Most processes run three to five rounds. An initial screening call with a recruiter or chief of staff is followed by a substantive conversation with the CEO or general counsel about legal philosophy and risk tolerance. Later rounds often include a practical exercise, such as redlining a sample agreement or outlining a legal-ops roadmap. A final conversation with cross-functional stakeholders assesses how well you'd partner with non-lawyers.
Where can I find and apply to founding attorney jobs?
You can find and apply to founding attorney jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your background and practice area, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
See All 511+ Founding Attorney Jobs
Find roles that match your experience and apply in just a few clicks.
Find Founding Attorney Jobs