Harvey
Staff Software Engineer, Agents
$231K–$340K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 1, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years post-BS/MS; role is also open across Mid, Senior, and Staff levels.
About the job
Build and optimize AI agents that automate legal workflows, using practical evaluations to improve task quality, speed, and customer outcomes.
What you'll do
- Partner with customers and product managers to understand workflows, define evaluations, and ship agents.
- Improve agent performance through prompting, model selection, tool design, context management, and evaluation development.
- Build low-latency agent infrastructure and observability with the model infrastructure team.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience post-BS/MS.
- Proficiency in Python and experience with LLM APIs and agent frameworks.
- Experience shipping user-facing products on the backend or full-stack.
- Comfort using evaluations to drive quality.
Pay
$231,000 - $340,000 USD (base salary); $231K – $340K (compensation; pay type not specified)
Tools
Python, LLM APIs
AI focus
Build and optimize domain-specific legal AI agents, including evaluations, model selection, tools, context management, and low-latency execution.
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