Harvey

Software Engineer, Agents

Harvey
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San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior / Staff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$161k - $242k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with customers and product managers to understand legal workflows and define practical evaluations for agent quality.
  • Design and ship agent environments, actions, tools, skills, and evaluation harnesses.
  • Optimize agents through prompt engineering, model selection, context-window management, and tool design.
  • Design and implement low-latency agent execution infrastructure, including caching strategies, parallel tool calls, and subagent patterns.
  • Improve observability and instrumentation to profile agent behavior, identify bottlenecks, and guide optimization decisions.
  • Stay current with developments in agentic systems and apply relevant learnings to products.

Requirements

  • 2–5 years of post-BS/MS software engineering experience.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience working with LLM APIs and agent frameworks.
  • Experience shipping user-facing products on the backend or full-stack.
  • Passion for building effective domain-specific agents and using evaluations to drive quality.
  • Ability to work iteratively, develop proofs of concept, make decisions quickly, and ship early versions.
  • Adaptability with code and frameworks and willingness to adopt emerging best practices.

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About Harvey

1,001-5,000 employees

Harvey builds domain-specific generative AI for legal and other professional services, delivered as an enterprise platform and APIs to automate contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation workflows. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it sells to law firms and corporate legal departments on enterprise agreements; investors include Sequoia Capital and OpenAI. Customers include multiple Am Law 100 firms and Fortune 500 companies’ legal teams.

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