Engineering Manager, AI Platform - Lead Scalable AI Systems

Harvey; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 272,000 - 355,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey is redefining AI-powered legal workflows with a fast-growing platform. We’re seeking an Engineering Manager for AI Platform to lead and scale a team building foundational systems powering Harvey’s products.

You’ll own roadmap, drive reliability, latency, and security, work with product, research, and engineering partners, and shape the technical direction across teams. This is a hands-on leadership role in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in software engineering management leading platform or infra teams
• 5+ years as backend/infra/full-stack engineer
• Track record of leading high-performing teams
• Experience building/operating production systems powered by LLMs
• Experience building internal platforms or shared services
• Strong backend skills in Python, Go, Node and distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers building the core AI platform that powers Harvey’s products
• Define the roadmap for shared AI infrastructure, including model gateways and routing, agent orchestration, tool calling, prompt and context management, and long-running job execution
• Partner with Product, Research, and product engineering teams to understand their needs and turn recurring patterns into reusable, well-documented platform primitives
• Build and scale evaluation, testing, and monitoring systems so teams can measure quality, catch regressions, and ship AI features with confidence
• Drive reliability, latency, cost efficiency, and security across LLM-powered systems, including working with model providers on capacity, rate limits, and new capabilities
• Evaluate and rapidly adopt new models, frameworks, and techniques, and decide what to build, buy, or adopt
• Contribute to code and architecture reviews, unblock teams, and lead by example when needed
• Hire, grow, and retain exceptional engineers who thrive in a high-trust, high-impact environment

Skills

Leadership

Backend engineering

Python

Go

Node.js

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

LLMs experience

Observability

Job description

Harvey is redefining AI-powered legal workflows with a fast-growing platform. We’re seeking an Engineering Manager for AI Platform to lead and scale a team building foundational systems powering Harvey’s products.

You’ll own roadmap, drive reliability, latency, and security, work with product, research, and engineering partners, and shape the technical direction across teams. This is a hands-on leadership role in San Francisco.