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Staff Software Engineer, Agents

Harvey· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$231k - $340k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Role focused on building and optimizing AI agents for legal professionals, including environment design, model selection, context management, tool development, and evaluation harnesses to enable rapid iteration and high-quality task completion.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with customers and PMs to understand legal workflows, design practical evaluations that capture what “excellent” means, 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.
  • Work with model infra team to 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 bring those learnings back to the products we build.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years (post-BS/MS) of software engineering experience.
  • Passion for building effective domain-specific agents.
  • Iterative mindset: develop proofs of concept, make decisions quickly, and ship v0s.
  • Comfortable with using evaluations to drive quality.
  • Humble and adaptable about code and frameworks; drive adoption of new best practices.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience working with LLM APIs and agent frameworks.
  • Experience with shipping user-facing products, either on the backend or full-stack.

Skills

Required:PythonLLM APIsAgent frameworks

Benefits

  • Benefits include: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%), and flexible PTO.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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