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Full TimeHarvey is a secure AI platform for professionals in law, tax, and finance that augments productivity and automates complex workflows. Harvey uses algorithms with reasoning-adept LLMs that have been customized and developed by our expert team of lawyers, engineers and research scientists. We’ve found product market fit and are scaling our team very quickly. Some reasons to join Harvey are:
Exceptional product market fit: We have partnered with the largest law firms and professional service providers in the world, including Paul Weiss, A&O Shearman, Ashurst, O'Melveny & Myers, PwC, KKR, and many others.
Strategic investors: Raised over $200 million from strategic investors including Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and the OpenAI Startup Fund.
World-class team: Harvey is hiring the best talent from DeepMind, Google Brain, Stripe, FAIR, Tesla Autopilot, Glean, Superhuman, Figma, and more.
Partnerships: Our engineers and researchers work directly with OpenAI to build the future of generative AI and redefine professional services.
Performance: $0-30M ARR in the last 18 months.
Value: Top of market cash and equity compensation.
Research Engineers at Harvey wear many hats. In this role, you may work on any/all of the following:
Zero-to-one product development: rapidly prototype, evaluate, and integrate new product features and custom projects for our customers.
Agent primitives: develop (and continuously improve) best-in-class LLM methods for zero-shot dense retrieval, large-scale hybrid semantic search, recursive abstractive document analysis, etc.
Agentic workflows: design and implement LLM agents that use these basic primitives and external tools to deliver high-quality, long-form work outputs.
Evaluation: Create rigorous evaluation protocols combining human preference judgements from domain experts and synthetic data generation.
Custom models: Fine-tune LLMs and domain-specific embeddings models for knowledge work tasks.
Technical leadership: As a Staff Research Engineer, you will technically lead members of our research and engineering teams in executing large-scale and long-form projects in given research, engineering, and product areas.
Candidates should have 7+ years of experience (post-BS/MS) in an ML research/engineering role. Candidates should have prior experience in a Staff Machine Learning Engineer or Staff Research Engineer role, with tech lead or tech lead-manager responsibilities. Additionally, you may be a strong fit for this role if you:
Are excited about redefining knowledge work through an AI-native lens.
Can translate open-ended problems into actionable, short-term goals and execute on them aggressively.
Communicate both low-level technical details and high-level strategic plans effectively.
Maintain a high personal velocity.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In consideration of market analysis and relevant factors, the salary range for this position is set between $260,000 and $280,000. However, adjustments outside of this range may be considered for candidates whose qualifications significantly differ from those outlined in the job description. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in our equity plan and benefits program. Benefits include, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%), and flexible PTO.
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.
