Harvey
Staff Software Engineer, Agents
$231K–$340K
New York · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 22, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years (post-BS/MS) of software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and optimize AI agents for legal workflows, from designing tools and evaluations to implementing low-latency agent infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Partner with customers and product managers to understand legal workflows, define evaluations, and ship agents.
- Optimize agent performance through prompt engineering, model selection, tool design, context management, and evaluation development.
- Improve low-latency execution infrastructure, observability, and instrumentation to profile and optimize agent behavior.
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 (base salary)
Tools
Python, LLM APIs
AI focus
Build domain-specific agents for legal work; optimize prompts, model selection, tools, context windows, and evaluations, and develop infrastructure for agent execution.
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