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August · 3 months ago

Founding AI Engineer

New York City

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$175K/yr - $300K/yr

3+ years exp

August is a company focused on building AI solutions for law firms, particularly midsized ones, to enhance efficiency and client service. They are seeking a Founding AI Engineer to design and scale production-grade agents that automate legal tasks, working closely with founders and legal experts.

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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

Qualification

PythonLLMs experienceKubernetesCloud StorageGrit

Required

3+ years of experience building products on top of LLMs, either in grad school or in production environments; strong Python 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

Ideally candidates would have experience and deep understanding of how infrastructure-layer (Kubernetes, Database, OS, Cloud Storage etc) software systems work