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Research Engineer, Infrastructure

Harvey · San Francisco · Remote

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About Harvey

Legal AI tailored for leading law firms and corporate legal teams worldwide. Harvey streamlines contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed and Sequoia.

About the role

In this role, you'll build the systems that power how we adapt and improve leading open-weight models for legal work. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience building ML infrastructure, distributed systems, or research tooling, with ownership of performance, reliability, and operation
  • Strong Python and generalist software engineering skills across backend services, data systems, and internal tools, with familiarity with PyTorch, JAX, or similar ML frameworks
  • Experience with distributed training or inference, including diagnosing performance bottlenecks and failures across the stack
  • Understanding of post-training workflows, experience with RL rollouts, agent environments, or sandboxed tool execution is a plus
  • Practical judgment about what to build versus adopt, and the ability to partner with researchers and ship quickly as needs evolve
  • We are hiring for this role across multiple levels
More about this role

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.

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