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Harvey

Builds AI software for lawyers

Legal Engineer

Solution EngineeringUpdated on Nov 13
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • Be based in Toronto and eligible to work in Canada.
  • Hold a Canadian practicing certificate or equivalent common-law qualification, with at least 3 years of experience as a qualified lawyer, including meaningful in-house experience at a corporation or financial institution.
  • Have a strong corporate attorney background, including hands-on experience advising on corporate, commercial, and/or regulatory matters within an in-house legal team.
  • Understand corporate legal workflows such as commercial contracting, governance, compliance, or transactions, and be curious about how artificial intelligence can reshape them.
  • Navigate business-oriented legal environments while balancing legal risk with practical commercial outcomes.
  • Exercise sound judgment and make confident, well-reasoned recommendations in fast-paced, ambiguous settings.
  • Operate across legal, product, and sales contexts, translating between stakeholders with clarity and precision.
  • Engage business stakeholders, senior leadership, and cross-functional partners; demonstrate executive presence and relationship-building ability.
  • Have experience working cross-functionally with product, sales, or business teams in an in-house setting.

Responsibilities

  • For the Legal Engineer (Pre-Sales) role, work with Account Executives to engage law firms and legal teams throughout the pre-sales process.
  • Lead collaborative pilot programs and guide prospects through potential applications of artificial intelligence.
  • Work with lawyers to understand workflows, build tailored solutions, and demonstrate value in legal use cases.
  • Bring prospect feedback into the product to help shape its development.
  • For the Legal Engineer, Product Specialist (Post-Sales) role, build trusted relationships with legal teams, learn their workflows, and show them how to incorporate Harvey into daily practice.
  • Lead onboarding and enablement, and work with practice groups to build agents on real matters.
  • Translate legal practice needs into actionable feedback for product and engineering, contribute customer-facing content across practice areas, and uphold the platform’s credibility with lawyers.
  • For the Legal Engineer, Custom Solutions role, meet with group heads, general counsel, and senior stakeholders to understand current processes.
  • Use legal expertise and natural-language prompting to design bespoke in-app resources, including agents, playbooks, and other tools, to improve process quality, speed, and experience.
  • Scope custom solutions with customers, prototype them against sample documents, and refine them collaboratively with customer teams.
  • Design tools that automate specific processes and build relationships with the senior leaders who own those processes.
  • Support strategic accounts pre-sale in an advisory capacity when needed.
  • Travel around 2–3 or more times per month for significant business needs, typically for 1–3 days at a time.

Desired Qualifications

  • Prior top-tier law firm experience is strongly preferred.
  • Customer-facing or business development experience is a plus.
  • French-speaking ability is a plus.

About the Company

Harvey

Builds AI software for lawyers

Harvey builds AI software made specifically for legal work, used by lawyers at large law firms and corporate legal departments. It became one of the first generative AI tools rolled out across a major law firm when Allen & Overy gave it to its lawyers worldwide in 2023. Lawyers use Harvey to research legal questions, draft and review contracts, and run due diligence across large sets of documents, with answers grounded in their firm's own files and trusted legal sources. Firms pay through enterprise subscriptions, and Harvey can tailor its workflows to practice areas such as litigation and mergers. Harvey was founded in 2022 with early backing from the OpenAI Startup Fund and is based in San Francisco.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Late Stage VC
Total funding
$1.8B
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2022

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