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Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform

Software Engineer • Principal • Hybrid • Full-time • United States New York, USA

A staff engineer on Harvey's AI Platform team, building the model routing, agent infrastructure, and context management foundation that every AI product at the company depends on.

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Responsibilities

  • ▹Design and build platform-level abstractions and systems that improve all of Harvey's agentic products
  • ▹Own infrastructure for model integration, routing, and evaluation
  • ▹Build evaluation frameworks and tooling that let every team measure and improve AI quality
  • ▹Partner closely with product engineering, PMs, and design to launch cutting-edge AI products
  • ▹Evaluate, prototype, and integrate the latest advancements in AI and agentic systems

Requirements

  • ▹8+ years of experience building backend systems, with at least 1+ year focused on AI/ML engineering
  • ▹A track record of technical leadership across teams
  • ▹Experience building and shipping multi-model or multi-provider AI systems in production
  • ▹Familiarity with context management, session state, or memory systems
  • ▹A track record of building internal platforms, SDKs, or shared infrastructure that other engineering teams actually adopted
  • ▹Strong judgment about abstractions; pragmatic about shipping incrementally
  • ▹A bias toward full ownership; navigates ambiguity well

Nice to have

  • ▹Experience building evaluation frameworks
  • ▹Experience with agent/function-calling architectures
  • ▹Familiarity with legal or other high-stakes professional services domains
  • ▹Time at early-stage or hyper-growth startups

Soft skills

full ownership mentalitycomfort navigating ambiguitypragmatic, incremental shipping mindsetstrong judgment about abstractions

About the company

Harvey is transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise. It serves 1500+ customers in 60+ countries, with strong product-market fit and world-class investor support.

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