# Research Engineer, Infrastructure at Harvey

- Company: Harvey
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.harvey.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $230K to $450K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-02
- Apply by: 2026-12-17
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey/264aac9e-3f8d-402f-a33b-04d2fe1e16be?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/harvey-research-engineer-infrastructure/

## 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

Tags: Research

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/harvey-research-engineer-infrastructure/