Pear VC
Why August
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. Some reasons to join August are:
Role Overview
As a Founding AI 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
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. Some reasons to join August are:
- Exceptional Early Traction : >4x revenue growth in the past four months.
- 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.
- Strategic investors : Backed by tier 1 investors and exceptional seed investors Pear VC and Afore Capital, August has the capital to execute
- Competitive compensation and office in downtown Manhattan
Role Overview
As a Founding AI 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 intuitive and optimized UI/UX using React and TypeScript for workflows that integrate reasoning LLMs and agentic architectures.
- 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.
- 2+ years experience building production-quality frontend applications.
- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript , React , and Next.js .
- Proven ability to create polished, intuitive user interfaces with attention to detail.
- Comfortable working at an early stage company with ownership and rapid iteration.