# Applied Legal Researcher

**Company**: Harvey
**Location**: New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000 - $220,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

The compensation for this role ranges from $180,000 to $220,000 USD, and you will also be eligible to participate in our equity plan and benefits program, which includes comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%), and flexible PTO.

As an Applied Legal Researcher, you will:

- 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

To be successful in this role, you should have:

- A JD from a top US law school or equivalent post-graduate qualification

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

- For NYC applicants: experience working in-house or at a financial institution

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

- Ability to effectively communicate with a variety of 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, such as grading hundreds of answers, breaking down thousands of documents

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise.

## Skills

### Required
- JD
- AI research
- prompt engineering
- fine tuning

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