Applied Legal Researcher

Harvey Harvey · AI Frontier · New York, NY · Legal

Role focused on applying legal expertise to develop and improve AI systems for professional services. Involves subject-matter expertise, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, building benchmarks/datasets, and client partnership to translate legal/business needs into AI solutions. Requires a JD or equivalent, 3-7 years of legal/financial services experience, and a willingness to perform detailed, "in the trenches" work to train AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and deliver subject-matter expertise to support AI research
  2. Work closely with our engineering, product, and design teams to define and develop AI systems
  3. Build and improve AI systems through prompt engineering, fine tuning, and other techniques
  4. Build proprietary benchmarks and datasets to evaluate models and model systems
  5. Partner directly with clients to understand their workflows, identify pain points, and translate complex business and legal requirements into technical solutions

Skills

Required

  • 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

Nice to have

  • prompt engineering
  • fine tuning

What the JD emphasized

  • frontier agentic AI
  • enterprise-grade platform
  • deep domain expertise
  • AI systems
  • prompt engineering
  • fine tuning
  • benchmarks and datasets
  • translate complex business and legal requirements into technical solutions
  • JD or equivalent post-graduate qualification
  • 3-7 years of experience at a law firm, financial institution, or equivalent professional service provider
  • deliver high quality work product on demanding deadlines
  • Ability to define positive outcomes in situations with underspecified success criteria
  • 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

Other signals

  • AI systems
  • prompt engineering
  • fine tuning
  • benchmarks and datasets
  • translate complex business and legal requirements into technical solutions