Software Engineer, Agents

Role Overview

The Software Engineer, Agents at Harvey will build systems that make our AI agents indispensable to legal professionals. Key responsibilities include:

• Partner with customers and PMs to understand legal workflows, design practical evaluations, 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 the model infra team to design and implement infrastructure for low-latency agent execution, including caching strategies, parallel tool calls, or subagent patterns.
• Improve 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.

What You'll Do

Key tasks include:

• Designing environments and actions for agentic professional work.
• Managing context windows and creating optimal tools.
• Developing evals that enable faster iteration loops to unlock new capabilities.
• Participating in representative projects such as automating information requests and diligence checks, improving contract processing, optimizing litigation case preparation, and enabling PowerPoint generation.

Requirements

Qualifications include:

• Passion for building effective domain-specific agents.
• An iterative mindset: developing proof of concepts, making decisions quickly, and shipping versions.
• Comfortable using evaluations to drive quality.
• A humble and adaptable approach to code and frameworks.

What You Have

• 2-5 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.

Pay

Compensation Range: $161,300 - $241,900 USD Depending on your location.

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