Applied Legal Researcher
New York$180k - $220kFull-timePosted 8mo ago
About the role
Role focused on legal research and AI-assisted knowledge work, collaborating with engineering, product, and design to build and improve AI systems for legal and professional services workflows.
Responsibilities
- 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
Qualifications
- JD from a top US law school or equivalent post-graduate qualification
- 3-7 years of experience at a US law firm, financial institution, or equivalent professional service provider
- For NYC applicants: experience working in-house or at a financial institution
- 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
Skills
Required:Subject-matter expertise in legal researchCross-functional collaborationPrompt engineering and fine-tuningBenchmark and dataset developmentClient engagement and requirements translation
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
- flexible PTO
- equity participation in the equity plan and benefits program
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Harvey
Professional Class AI
Harvey is a platform built to meet the standards of the world’s leading professional service firms.
AILegalLegal AILegal AnalysisLegal Document AnalysisLegal ResearchLegal Techsetter-30
More open roles at Harvey
- Senior Deal Desk Analyst, APAC4d agoSydney · Sales
- Deal Operations Analyst4d agoHybrid (Chicago) · Sales
- Deal Operations Analyst4d agoHybrid (Dallas) · Sales
- Account Executive, Enterprise4d agoHybrid (Toronto) · Sales
- Head of Mid Market Sales, North America4d agoHybrid (Chicago) · Sales