Applied Legal Researcher at Harvey building AI systems for professional services. Combines legal domain expertise with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and dataset development to accelerate law firm and corporate workflows.
At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate — not incrementally, but end-to-end. 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. With 1000+ customers in 60+ countries, 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 is sharp, motivated, and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast, operate with intensity, and take real ownership of the problems we tackle — from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers — from leadership to engineers — and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity, push for excellence, and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar, we invite you to build with us.
At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.
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.
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
JD or equivalent post-graduate qualification
3-7 years of experience at a law firm, financial institution, or equivalent professional service provider
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
$180,000 - $220,000 USD
Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai