Forward Deployed Engineer

Today, legal work is done the way it has been done for a century — manually, by humans, in six-minute increments. Every contract drafted from scratch. Every memo researched line by line. Every matter running through layers of review that someone is paying for at hundreds of dollars an hour.

That is about to change. We believe that in five years, more than 80% of legal work will pass through a model before it ever reaches a human. The implication is not faster lawyers — it is a fundamentally different way that legal services get bought and procured.

Our mission is to make high-quality legal work accessible and affordable for everyone. We are going after the services spend, not the software spend — helping law firms restructure their delivery model around AI, and helping in-house teams do the same. One engine of agents and workflows underneath every matter we touch.

We are a lean, in-person based in New York City, backed by leading investors and growing fast. Every role at August is a chance to remake an industry while the window is open.

August is building AGI for law. Our agents mimic lawyers’ reasoning, research, and drafting, and our workflows already outperform attorneys in third-party evaluations. We target mid-market law firms, automating legal work and enabling firms to offer our tools directly to clients. Join at an early stage as we scale agents to process thousands of documents simultaneously and deliver outputs that exceed human-level accuracy—in real, high-stakes environments.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at August, you’ll embed with customers to turn ambiguous workflows into deployed, reliable solutions. You’ll scope, prototype, integrate, and operate production systems—owning the last mile from SSO and data ingestion to UX fit and pilot success. You’ll work directly with founders, engineers, and legal experts to ship measurable value fast and upstream your wins into the core product.

• Own customer deployments end-to-end: run discovery, define success metrics, and deliver pilots that convert to expansion.

• Build and integrate for real environments: implement adapters, webhooks, and APIs (e.g., iManage/NetDocs, SharePoint, Outlook, Word add-ins); wire up SSO/SAML/OIDC and tenant isolation.

• Create reusable product: transform bespoke integrations into configurable modules, SDKs, templates, and internal playbooks.

• Accelerate time-to-value: remove bottlenecks (data migrations, redlines, policy constraints) so pilots deliver results in weeks, not months.

• 2+ years building production software (full-stack or platform); you’re comfortable reading unfamiliar APIs and shipping in messy real-world stacks.

• Proficiency with TypeScript/JavaScript (React/Next.js for light UI surfaces) and at least one backend language (e.g., Python ) for integrations and automations..

• Bias to ship: you favor the smallest change that proves value, instrument it, and iterate quickly.

• Comfortable in an early-stage environment with ownership, ambiguity, and rapid iteration. Light travel to customer sites as needed.

• Medical insurance coverage

• Flexible PTO

• Parental Leave

• Centralized office equipment ordering for all employees

• Equinox or Chelsea Piers gym membership

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

• Budget for intra-office travel

• Team-building events

• Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)

• 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.