Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & Evals
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Harvey is an AI platform for legal and professional-services organizations.
Series F+Recently funded
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About Harvey
Harvey provides agents and collaborative tools for legal work, including legal research, document analysis, secure workspaces, contract intelligence, and organization-level analytics.
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About the Role
You will build the data and measurement systems powering post-training, benchmarking and agent capability efforts. You'll own synthetic data pipelines, evaluation design and grading, and work with researchers and legal experts to turn model failures into measurable improvements.
Requirements
- Experience building data pipelines, ML evaluation systems or experimentation tooling
- Strong Python skills and production-quality code
- Rigorous approach to measurement, statistical reasoning and experimental design
- Ability to translate ambiguous goals into structured datasets, rubrics and criteria
- Plus: synthetic data, LLM evaluations, automated raters or preference data experience
Responsibilities
- Build synthetic data pipelines to generate, filter and curate training and evaluation samples
- Design evaluations and verifiers calibrated against expert judgment
- Build and maintain capability benchmarks like the Legal Agent Benchmark and product-focused evals
- Work with legal experts to define quality metrics and rubrics
- Own training and evaluation data quality including provenance, coverage and contamination safeguards
- Close the loop from product usage and customer feedback to new evals and training data
- Partner with researchers to investigate model failures and guide training and release decisions
