Applied Legal Researcher

Harvey, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey, a leader in AI-assisted professional services, seeks a legal researcher to join our rapidly growing team in the United States. You will apply deep legal knowledge to help build AI systems that understand and optimize complex knowledge-work workflows for law firms, financial institutions, and corporations.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, and design to translate client requirements into technical solutions, develop subject-matter expertise, and benchmark model performance.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Deadline-driven

Stakeholder management

Learning mindset

Technical collaboration

Education

JD from top US law school

3-7 years at a US law firm or equivalent

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

$180,000 - $220,000 USD

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