Harvey · 1 day ago
Staff Applied AI Engineer
New York, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$238K/yr - $312K/yr
7+ years expHarvey is transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining AI and deep domain expertise. The Applied AI Engineer will lead engineering projects, focusing on product development and algorithmic improvements in collaboration with the legal team.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologyLegalLegal Tech
Responsibilities
Conduct data collection, experimentation, and analysis to drive algorithmic development for RAG and multi-step AI pipelines
Zero-to-one product development: rapidly prototype, evaluate, integrate, and test new product features in close partnership with our 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
Partner with our legal team to design and implement a method for evaluating the correctness of document citations. Use this to build a large dataset of ground-truth citations and then improve our core citation algorithm
Make targeted improvements to our RAG pipelines to improve answer quality for user questions over corpuses of complex data, like massive banks of spreadsheets or Japan’s tax code
Design and build systems that leverage state-of-the-art LLMs from multiple model providers, including custom models
Work across the stack and with our legal team to create seamless multi-step AI workflows for complex legal tasks, like corporate merger due diligence
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience (post-BS/MS) in an engineering role
Experience with shipping a scaled and impactful product powered by machine learning: how to use offline datasets, online experiments, and recent research to build simple and high performance systems
Track record of shipping reliable products and a strong attention to detail
Experience building backend platforms that can support multiple product lines
Preferred
Prior experience with LLMs and retrieval pipelines is not required
Grit - experience working at early-stage startups is a plus
Company
Harvey
Harvey provides AI-driven tools to assist legal professionals with research, document review, and contract analysis.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.02BKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzEQT GrowthSequoia Capital
2025-10-30Series F· $160M
2025-10-06Series E· $59M
2025-06-23Series E· $300M
Leadership Team
Winston Weinberg
CEO & Co-Founder
Gabe Pereyra
President & Co-Founder
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