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AI Product Engineer

Join August as an AI Product Engineer to design and scale AI agents for legal workflows in a fast-growing startup environment.

Location
New York City
Compensation
$140k–$240k/yr
Level
mid
Type
full time · On-site

Posted by employer 3 weeks ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

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Skills & Technologies

Python Flexible on stack

Role intensity

70% hands-on coding

AI in the day-to-day

Our agents mimic a lawyers’ reasoning, research, and drafting, automating legal work and outperforming human evaluations.

Requirements

Education
Bachelor's degree

Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.

Benefits

Flexible PTO Gym Membership Health Insurance Relocation Assistance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

In the role of AI Product Engineer at August, the individual will focus on designing and scaling AI agents that automate complex legal workflows, ensuring high accuracy and efficiency. Proficiency in Python and experience with large language models are essential, along with a knack for rapid prototyping in early-stage environments. This position is ideal for candidates with a strong technical background and a passion for innovation in the legal sector. August's lean team environment fosters collaboration and offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of legal services.

Joblaze insights

Quick facts

Is the AI Product Engineer role remote?
No — this is an on-site role in New York City.
What's the salary range?
August lists $140,000–$240,000 for this role.
Where is the role based?
August is hiring for this position in New York City.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Python.
What seniority level is this role?
August targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this AI Product Engineer role at August.

From the original posting

The world’s largest law firm won’t be a law firm. Join us in building it.

August allows law firms to compound their expertise by building an autonomous organization of AI agents that run the firm's knowledge work. We partner closely with our firms and grow alongside them through sharing revenue on our agents and equity in the firms we transform.

We believe that in five years, more than 95% of legal work will be concentrated among a select few elite law firms. The firms that get there will be the ones that rebuild how they deliver it. We're partnering with those firms and building the engine they run on to become the biggest legal service provider in the world.

We invest in partnerships, not just licenses. We sell finished legal work alongside our firms and take a share of what it earns. This enables them to scale their services and lets us grow along with it. That means we’re chasing the legal services market ($1T), which dwarfs the global legal tech market ($40b).

The problem is hard. An engine of agents sits underneath every matter we touch, connected to every step of a lawyer's workflow, in an industry where there is no margin for error. We’re challenged with building the perfectly accurate, infallibly secure, and yet all-powerful engine for legal work.

We're already live with several excellent firms and the early results are better than we expected. Lean team, in person, New York, backed by leading investors, growing fast.

Every role at August is a chance to remake an industry while the window is open.

The Opportunity

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 an 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.

What You'll Do

  • 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.

About You

  • 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

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

  • 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.

Compensation Range

  • $140,000-240,000 base + founding-level equity

Benefits

  • Medical insurance coverage

  • Flexible PTO

  • Parental Leave

  • Centralized office equipment ordering for all employees

  • Health and Wellness stipend for gym memberships

  • In-office perks: lunch, dinner, snacks, drinks, and more

  • Budget for intra-office travel

  • Team-building events

  • Relocation support to NYC

Why Join August

  • Founding Impact: Shape not just your role but the company.

  • Uncapped Upside: Competitive base + commission, early equity ownership.

  • Top-tier Team: Work alongside people who move fast, think clearly, and care deeply.

  • Category-Defining Work: Help build the first true AI agents for the legal profession.

  • Fast Growth: Scale your career as we scale the company.

  • In-person in NYC: Collaborative, talent dense and high energy environment

  • Global Reach: Our clients span 4 continents and use August in multiple languages and jurisdictions

  • Frontier of Applied AI: August has access to proprietary data inaccessible to foundation model providers. We build agents to automate all challenging knowledge work.

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