Founding AI Product Engineer

August•New York, NY

3d•$175,000 - $300,000•Onsite

About The Position

August is building AGI for law. Our agents mimic a lawyers’ reasoning, research, and drafting, and our workflows already outperform lawyers in third-party evaluations. We’re targeting mid-market law firms, automating their legal work and allowing them to provide our tools directly to their clients. Join August at an early stage as we scale our agents to process millions of documents simultaneously and create outputs exceeding human-level accuracy. As a Founding AI Product Engineer at August, you will design and scale production-grade agents that perform legal tasks with expert-level reasoning. You’ll work closely with the founders, legal experts, and product team to deploy AI systems in high-stakes workflows used by real lawyers across the globe.

Requirements

Experience building with LLMs, either in grad school or in production environments; strong coding skills
Demonstrated ability to ship quickly especially in early-stage environments while building scalable enterprise software
Quick and eager learner with strong fundamentals.
Ideally candidates would have experience and deep understanding of how infrastructure-layer (Database, Cloud Storage, etc) software systems work.

Nice To Haves

Grit - experience working at early-stage startups is a plus.

Responsibilities

Build and deploy agentic systems using Python to automate, evaluate, and scale end-to-end legal workflows
Zero-to-one product development: rapidly prototype, evaluate, integrate, and test new product features in close partnership with our customers and legal team.
Develop new AI native workflows: implement streaming, long-running tasks, procedural UX, etc. for new AI tasks, finding the balance between state-of-the-art and pragmatism.