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Applied Legal Researcher

harvey.ai
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/16/2025

Why Harvey

Harvey 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 :

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  • 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.

Role Overview

We are looking for a legal researcher with a strong understanding of how large firms and other organizations deliver professional services and execute complex legal and knowledge work tasks. We have incredible product-market fit & demand across diverse customer profiles. Executing on this demand requires a strong understanding of our customer’s workflows and how those workflows can be accelerated by AI systems.

Responsibilities

To facilitate the development of these systems, you will :

  • Develop and deliver subject-matter expertise to support AI research.
  • Work closely with our Machine Learning Research team to define and develop AI systems.
  • Prompt engineer and fine-tune large language models.
  • Build proprietary benchmarks and datasets to evaluate models and model systems.
  • Tackle unsolved AI problems to solve complex professional service tasks.
  • Disrupt multiple $T industries.
  • Qualifications

  • 3-7 years of experience at a large law firm or equivalent professional service provider.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality work product on demanding deadlines.
  • Ability to effectively communicate with a variety of internal stakeholders and translate complex problems effectively between them.
  • Ability to define positive outcomes in situations with underspecified success criteria.
  • 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.
  • Compensation

    In consideration of market analysis and relevant factors, the salary range for this position is set between $200,000 and $250,000. 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 are 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.

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    Salary : $200,000 - $250,000

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