Staff Software Engineer, AI Agents

Harvey, Inc.

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 231,000 - 340,000

Full time

40 hours ago

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Job summary

Harvey, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer, Agents, to build the systems that make our AI agents indispensable to legal professionals.

You will design environments and actions for agentic professional work, make model selection decisions, manage context windows, create optimal tools, and develop evals that enable faster iteration loops to unlock new capabilities. We're looking for engineers and researchers who are immersed in the space, driven to ship impactful products, and experienced in

Qualifications

8+ 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.
Humble and adaptable about code and frameworks. We expect you to drive adoption of new best practices as they develop.

Responsibilities

Partner with customers and PMs to understand workflows and design practical evaluations that capture what excellence 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 and parallel tool calls.
Improve our observability to profile agent behavior, identify bottlenecks, and drive optimization decisions.
Stay current on developments in agentic systems and bring those learnings back to the products we build.