Staff Software Engineer, Agents
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Harvey is an AI platform for legal and professional-services organizations.
Series F+Recently funded
Distributed
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 partner with customers and PMs to understand legal workflows, design practical evaluations, and ship agents that get the job done. You will optimize agent performance via prompt engineering, model selection, tool design and context management, work on low-latency execution infrastructure, and improve observability.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Passion for building domain-specific agents
- Iterative mindset with proof of concepts and quick shipping
- Comfort using evaluations to drive quality
- Proficiency in Python and experience with LLM APIs and agent frameworks
- Experience shipping user-facing products on backend or full-stack
Responsibilities
- Partner with customers and PMs to understand legal workflows and design practical evaluations
- Ship agents for legal work
- Optimize agent performance through prompt engineering, model selection, tool design, skill writing, context window management and eval harness development
- Design infrastructure for low-latency agent execution with caching, parallel tool calls and subagent patterns
- Improve observability and instrumentation to profile agent behavior
- Stay current on developments in agentic systems
Benefits
- Equity
