Harvey

Legal Product Architect at Harvey (San Francisco, CA)

Harvey· San Francisco, CA· $180k–$220k·

Role details

Salary
$180k–$220k
Employment
Full-Time
Skills
Prompt engineeringModel fine-tuningLegal researchData analysis
Benefits

Equity

Harvey at a glance

Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services that automates research, drafting, contract analysis, and due diligence.

Harvey builds domain-specific AI for legal and professional services, letting law firms and in-house legal teams automate research, drafting, contract analysis, due diligence, and complex workflows on a secure, enterprise-grade platform that integrates with the tools they already use.

$1.2B+ raised · latest: Growth Round · $200M · $11B valuation · March 2026 · backed by Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz

Summary

The Applied Legal Researcher supports the development of AI systems by building subject-matter expertise, refining models through prompt engineering, and partnering with clients to translate complex legal workflows into technical solutions.

Job description

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

Why work at Harvey

  • Culture: Fast‑paced, collaborative, ambitious. Values include Decisiveness (“take the square root of the weather” – avoid overanalysis), Simplicity, and Job’s Not Finished (continuous improvement).
  • Work environment: Hybrid – 3+ days per week in office for roles based in San Francisco, New York City, or London. Some fully remote positions available (clearly marked).
  • Benefits: Comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k) match, paid parental leave (immediately eligible), annual professional development stipend, in‑office daily lunch, and more.
  • Growth opportunities: Rapidly scaling (~300 employees, 254 open roles) provides internal mobility and ownership of impactful projects.
  • Engineering culture: Strong blend of AI research (DeepMind background) and legal domain expertise. CTO Siva Gurumurthy recently joined. Emphasis on building secure, enterprise‑grade products.

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