Staff/Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineering
Harvey · San Francisco
About this role
## 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—strong product-market fit, world-class investor support, and rapid scaling. **Values:** Decisiveness, Simplicity, and *Job’s Not Finished*. --- ## ROLE OVERVIEW As a **Staff or Senior Staff Software Engineer** on the **Product Engineering** team, you will own and lead engineering projects spanning multiple Product Engineering teams and product lines. You’ll work closely with **AI, Legal, and GTM** teams to build **secure systems** that deliver value to customers. Product Engineering spans multiple domains—**backend, full stack, and AI**—and you’ll help build both: - The **surfaces** where lawyers meet Harvey (web, mobile, and embedded experiences in **Word, Outlook, and Slack**) - The **agentic capabilities** that power them **Location:** New York City or San Francisco **Schedule:** Hybrid — **3 days/week in office** --- ## WHAT YOU’LL DO - **Bring AI to where customers already work:** build Harvey across web, desktop, mobile, embedded experiences (Google Docs, MS Word, Outlook, Slack), and **API**. - **Lead large, high-priority projects** across multiple teams; define the technical bets for the next several quarters. - **Identify business-critical problems**, prioritize ruthlessly, and make major tradeoff decisions quickly. - **Build AI-platform and AI-native capabilities**, including: - agent harness and agent building (custom agents/workflows) - tool calling - retrieval, memory, and context management - personalization and tone - thread experience - evals that turn model quality into product quality - **Ship the systems that make Harvey work**, including: - retrieval over petabyte-scale document corpora - ingestion growing 10x every six months - data collection across 50+ jurisdictions - government-level security for highly sensitive matters - **Ship across the stack:** React + TypeScript with Python + Postgres; architect UX and robust APIs for streaming results, long-running processes, and complex tool-calling workflows. - **Mentor senior and staff engineers** and raise the bar across the org. --- ## WHAT YOU HAVE - **10+ years of experience** (post-BS/MS) in a product-focused software engineering role *(Additional requirements were not included in the provided description.)*
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