Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will embed with partner firms to build and deploy production-grade AI agents that perform legal work. You will architect integrations, sit with lawyers to learn workflows, and turn deployment patterns into core platform tooling.

What you will do

• Own deployments end to end by architecting, building, and shipping August into production.
• Build integrations including adapters, webhooks, and APIs for iManage, NetDocs, SharePoint, Outlook, and Word add-ins.
• Sit with lawyers to learn how a matter moves.
• Extract patterns from deployments to harden them into configurable modules, SDKs, and internal tooling.
• Debug live in production under pressure.

Required qualifications

• 1-2 years of production software engineering experience (full-stack or platform)
• Strong command of TypeScript/JavaScript (React/Next.js)
• At least one backend language
• Comfortable writing API clients, data transformation scripts, and lightweight services from scratch

Nice to have

• Python preferred

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

About the company

August builds an autonomous organization of AI agents to run the knowledge work of law firms. The company partners with firms to build the engine they run on to become the biggest legal service provider in the world.