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Software Engineer, Agents

Full-time

Harvey

Responsibilities

  • Partner with customers and product managers to understand legal workflows and define practical evaluations for agent quality.
  • Design and ship agent environments, actions, tools, skills, and evaluation harnesses.
  • Optimize agents through prompt engineering, model selection, context-window management, and tool design.
  • Design and implement low-latency agent execution infrastructure, including caching strategies, parallel tool calls, and subagent patterns.
  • Improve observability and instrumentation to profile agent behavior, identify bottlenecks, and guide optimization decisions.
  • Stay current with developments in agentic systems and apply relevant learnings to products.

Requirements

  • 2–5 years of post-BS/MS software engineering experience.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience working with LLM APIs and agent frameworks.
  • Experience shipping user-facing products on the backend or full-stack.
  • Passion for building effective domain-specific agents and using evaluations to drive quality.
  • Ability to work iteratively, develop proofs of concept, make decisions quickly, and ship early versions.
  • Adaptability with code and frameworks and willingness to adopt emerging best practices.
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