Legal Product Architect
At a glance
Mid-level Engineering Leadership role at Harvey. San Francisco · full-time · $220,000–$320,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build legal and professional-services expertise that informs the development of AI research
- Shape AI systems with engineering, product, and design colleagues, then improve them through prompting and fine-tuning
- Create proprietary datasets and benchmarks to assess model performance
- Work with clients to map their workflows and pain points, then turn complex legal and business needs into technical solutions
- Help evaluate model outputs through hands-on review of large volumes of answers and documents
What you bring
- A JD from a leading US law school or an equivalent postgraduate qualification
- Three to seven years at a US law firm, financial institution, or comparable professional-services provider
- A record of delivering strong work under tight deadlines and communicating complex issues across internal and external groups
- For applicants in New York City, prior in-house or financial-institution experience
Who this fits
This role suits a legal researcher who understands how organizations handle complex legal and knowledge work and is ready to apply that expertise to AI systems. You’ll need to be comfortable with detailed, repetitive evaluation work, including reviewing many model answers and documents.
From the employer
Why Harvey
At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.
This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched.
Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you.
At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.
Role Overview
We are looking for a legal researcher with a strong understanding of how law firms, financial institutions, large corporations, and other organizations deliver professional services and execute complex legal and knowledge work tasks. We have incredible product-market fit and demand across diverse customer profiles. Executing on this demand requires a strong understanding of our customers' workflows and how those workflows can be accelerated by AI systems.
What You'll Do
To facilitate the development of these systems, you will:
Develop and deliver subject-matter expertise to support AI research
Work closely with our engineering, product, and design teams to define and develop AI systems
Build and improve AI systems through prompt engineering, fine tuning, and other techniques
Build proprietary benchmarks and datasets to evaluate models and model systems
Partner directly with clients to understand their workflows, identify pain points, and translate complex business and legal requirements into technical solutions
What You Have
JD from a top US law school or equivalent post-graduate qualification
3-7 years of experience at a US law firm, financial institution, or equivalent professional service provider
For NYC applicants: experience working in-house or at a financial institution
Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality work product on demanding deadlines
Ability to effectively communicate with a variety internal and external stakeholders and translate complex problems effectively between them
Ability to define positive outcomes in situations with underspecified success criteria
Deep intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn across domains
Willingness and desire to do work in the trenches - e.g., grading hundreds of answers, breaking down thousands of documents - getting the models to do junior associate work requires a lot of things that look like junior associate work
Compensation Range
$220,000 - $320,000 USD Total Target Cash, offers Equity
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Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai
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