About this role
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 generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched.
Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you.
At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As a Member of Technical Staff, Data & Evals in Harvey Research, you’ll build the data and measurement systems that power our post-training, benchmarking, and agent capability efforts.
We recently post-trained our first model built for legal work, and we’re now building the team to scale up our post-training efforts. You’ll own synthetic data pipelines, evaluation design, the tasks and grading behind training environments, and the systems that turn feedback from domain experts into training signals and rewards. These are tasks where correctness often can’t be verified automatically, so defining and measuring quality is a core research challenge. You’ll join a small, high-bar team of hands-on engineers and researchers, where each person owns a large part of the work.
We’re looking for research engineers who can build reliable data and evaluation systems, question what a metric actually tells us, and work closely with researchers and legal experts to turn model failures into measurable improvements.
Learn more about our work at harvey.ai/research http://harvey.ai/research.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build synthetic data pipelines that generate, filter, and curate training and evaluation samples for complex legal reasoning and agentic workflows.
- Design evaluations and verifiers that reflect real legal work, calibrate them against expert judgment, and investigate where they fail.
- Build and maintain capability benchmarks like our Legal Agent Benchmark (LAB), along with product-focused evals that track how models perform on real customer workflows.
- Work with legal domain experts to define quality metrics, rubrics, and other grading mechanisms for training and evaluation.
- Own training and evaluation data quality, including provenanc