Applied Legal Researcher

Harvey
New York2026-02-05

About the job

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

Responsibilities

- Develop and deliver subject-matter expertise to support AI research

- Work closely with our engineering, product, and design teams to define and develop AI systems

- Build and improve AI systems through prompt engineering, fine tuning, and other techniques

- Build proprietary benchmarks and datasets to evaluate models and model systems

- Partner directly with clients to understand their workflows, identify pain points, and translate complex business and legal requirements into technical solutions

Qualifications

Minimum

- JD or equivalent post-graduate qualification

- 3-7 years of experience at a law firm, financial institution, or equivalent professional service provider

- Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality work product on demanding deadlines

- Ability to effectively communicate with a variety internal and external stakeholders and translate complex problems effectively between them

- Ability to define positive outcomes in situations with underspecified success criteria

- Deep intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn across domains

- 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

Preferred

No preferred qualifications listed.