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Forward Deployed Engineer

Join August as a Forward Deployed Engineer to build AI agents for legal work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment in NYC.

Location
New York City
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
junior
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

Role intensity

70% hands-on coding

AI in the day-to-day

Building autonomous AI agents that perform legal work with expert-level reasoning.

Requirements

Experience
1–2 years

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.

Benefits

Gym Membership Health Insurance Relocation Assistance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

In the role of Forward Deployed Engineer at August, the individual will work closely with partner law firms to develop and implement AI agents that enhance legal workflows. Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python is essential, as the engineer will be responsible for building integrations and debugging live systems under pressure. This position is ideal for someone with 1-2 years of software engineering experience who thrives in dynamic environments and enjoys tackling complex technical challenges. August's lean team structure and focus on innovation provide a unique opportunity to influence the future of legal services.

Joblaze insights

Quick facts

Is the Forward Deployed Engineer role remote?
No — this is an on-site role in New York City.
How much experience is required?
1–2 years of relevant experience for this Forward Deployed Engineer 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: JavaScript, Next.js, Python, React, TypeScript.
What seniority level is this role?
August targets junior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Forward Deployed 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

You'll embed with our partner firms and build production-grade agents that perform legal work with expert-level reasoning. This is a zero to one role. You'll sit with lawyers to learn how a matter actually moves, build the agents that take it over, and deploy them in production on live matters.

What you learn there comes back with you. You'll turn what only shows up inside a real firm into core product, so that the next partnership starts further along than the last one did. Over time you'll define how this function works at August: the patterns, the tooling, and the team that follows you into it.

 

What You’ll Do

  • Own deployments end to end. Architect, build, and ship August into production at partner firms. You scope the integration, write the code, run the cutover, and stay on it until it holds. You decide what done means.

  • Build the integrations that touch everything. Ship the adapters, webhooks, and APIs that wire August into iManage, NetDocs, SharePoint, Outlook, and Word add-ins.

  • Sit with the lawyers. Learn how a matter actually moves before you automate any part of it. The gap between how a firm describes its process and how the work really happens is where these deployments succeed or fail.

  • Turn one off work into platform. Every deployment is raw material. Extract the patterns, harden them into configurable modules, SDKs, and internal tooling, and cut the time it takes the next firm to go live.

  • Debug live, in production, under pressure. When a migration stalls, a policy blocks a write, or a legacy system returns garbage, you trace it, root cause it, and fix it. Instrument everything so the next deployment doesn't hit the same wall.

 

About You

  • 1-2 years of production software engineering experience (full-stack or platform); you're a strong generalist who can navigate an unfamiliar codebase quickly, debug hairy integration issues, and ship reliable code under real constraints.

  • Strong command of TypeScript/JavaScript (React/Next.js) and at least one backend language (Python preferred); comfortable writing API clients, data transformation scripts, and lightweight services from scratch.

  • Engineering instincts that favor shipping: you default to the smallest working solution, add observability from day one, and treat each deployment as a learning loop — not a one-time project.

  • Thrives in high-ownership, fast-moving environments: you're energized by ambiguity, can context-switch between deep technical problems and high-level architecture discussions, and take pride in building things that actually work in the wild.

 

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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