Staff Software Engineer, Agents

What this role involves

Harvey is building AI agents for legal professionals. This Staff Software Engineer role focuses on designing agent environments, optimizing performance through prompt engineering and model selection, and shipping user-facing products. The role requires 5-8 years of experience and proficiency in Python and LLM APIs.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• llm apis
• agent frameworks
• prompt engineering
• model selection
• tool design
• context window management
• eval harness development
• caching strategies
• parallel tool calls
• subagent patterns
• observability
• instrumentation

Requirements

• 5 years of experience
• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

WHY HARVEY At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. 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 generat…