Harvey

Senior Software Engineer, Agents

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7 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$193k - $290k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with customers and product managers to understand legal workflows and define practical evaluations.
  • Optimize agent performance through prompt engineering, model selection, tool design, skill writing, context-window management, and evaluation-harness development.
  • Design and implement low-latency agent execution infrastructure with caching strategies, parallel tool calls, and subagent patterns.
  • Improve observability and instrumentation to profile agent behavior, identify bottlenecks, and guide optimization.
  • Stay current with developments in agentic systems and apply those learnings to products.

Requirements

  • 5–8 years of post-BS/MS software engineering experience.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience 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 develop proof of concepts, make decisions quickly, and ship early product versions.

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About Harvey

501-1,000 employees

Harvey is domain-specific AI for legal and professional services. Adopted by Fortune 500 companies like AT&T, Verizon, Cox, Koch, KKR, Bridgewater, more than 100,000 lawyers across 2,400+ customers in 70 countries and over 75% of AmLaw 100 law firms rely on Harvey to advance legal expertise faster across contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation. Backed by Sequoia Capital, OpenAI, GV, Kleiner Perkins, Coatue and EQT, Harvey is the trusted partner in modernizing the legal industry.