Senior Software Engineer, Agents

Harvey
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 165,000 - 312,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Adaptability","Collaboration","Learning agility"]

Software Engineer, Agents builds systems for AI agents used by legal professionals, focusing on environments, model selection, context management, tools, and evals to accelerate iteration and improve task completion quality and customer delight.

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Harvey
Harvey
7 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Agents

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Job Summary

Software Engineer, Agents builds systems for AI agents used by legal professionals, focusing on environments, model selection, context management, tools, and evals to accelerate iteration and improve task completion quality and customer delight.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with customers and PMs to understand legal workflows, design practical evaluations that capture what “excellent” means, and ship agents that get the job done.
  • •Optimize agent performance through prompt engineering, model selection, tool design, skill writing, context window management, and eval harness development.
  • •Work with our model infra team to design and implement infrastructure for low-latency agent execution, including caching strategies, parallel tool calls, or subagent patterns.
  • •Improve our observability and instrumentation to profile agent behavior, identify bottlenecks, and drive optimization decisions.
  • •Stay current on new developments in agentic systems and bring those learnings back to the products we build.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 165,000 - 312,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years (post-BS/MS) of software engineering experience.
  • •Proficiency in Python and experience working with LLM APIs and agent frameworks.
  • •Experience with shipping user-facing products, either on the backend or full-stack.
  • •Comfortable with evaluating to drive quality and iterating quickly (shipping v0s).
  • •Humble and adaptable about code and frameworks; drive adoption of new best practices.
Experience:3+ yearsEnterprise softwareAI agentsLegal tech
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationAdaptabilityCollaborationLearning agility
Tech Stack:PythonLLM APIsAgent frameworksPrompt engineeringModel selectionContext window managementEval harnesses

Company Brief

Harvey
Harvey builds domain-specific generative AI for legal and professional services, automating contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation workflows for law firms and corporate legal teams.
Industry: LegalTech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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