Staff Software Engineer, Agents
$231k - $340k • Remote • New York • FullTime
Posted 8d ago
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
Harvey is transforming legal and professional services by combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise. We are building a generational company at an inflection point, scaling rapidly and defining a new category. Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to our mission, operating with intensity and pushing for excellence. We value decisiveness, simplicity, and the understanding that the job is never finished. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside driven individuals, we'd love to build with you.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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 apply learnings to product development.
Requirements
- Passion for building effective domain-specific agents.
- Iterative mindset with experience developing proof of concepts and shipping v0s.
- Comfortable using evaluations to drive quality.
- Humble and adaptable regarding code and frameworks, driving adoption of new best practices.
- 5-8 years of software engineering experience (post-BS/MS).
- Proficiency in Python.
- Experience working with LLM APIs and agent frameworks.
- Experience shipping user-facing products (backend or full-stack).