Software Engineer, New Grad (2027)

Role Overview

The Software Engineer, New Grad joins Harvey's Engineering team, working alongside experienced engineers to build AI-powered systems for leading law firms and enterprises. The team's mission is to deliver secure, intuitive, and high-performance application-layer experiences that turn frontier AI capabilities into real customer value. This role offers an accelerated path to ownership, contributing production code to features spanning retrieval, document intelligence, and workflow automation from day one. It is an opportunity to develop rapidly at the intersection of AI and professional services, with direct exposure to how engineers shape a category-defining product.

Hiring for 2027 Graduates

We are hiring new grads to start in 2027 across multiple teams and roles, including Frontend, Backend, Full-Stack, Infrastructure, and Applied AI. Your interests and experience will be factored into our team matching process.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and ship production-level code across the stack while maintaining high quality, reliability, and security standards.
• Use AI-assisted development tools daily and own the quality of everything shipped.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including AI Research, Legal Engineering, Product, and Design to translate problem statements into compelling product experiences.
• Collaborate with your team through code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best-practice development alongside senior and staff engineers.
• Experiment with and evaluate cutting-edge LLMs and AI systems, contributing to how Harvey's platform evolves.
• Depending on your team, you could work on: retrieval over large document collections, interfaces for collaborating with AI systems, multi-region compute infrastructure, enterprise agents, or secure systems for sensitive client data.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Graduation between Winter 2026 - Spring 2027.
• Ability to work from our New York or San Francisco office starting in January 2027. Relocation support is available.
• Previous internship experience is required.
• Technical foundation: Strong proficiency in one or more languages (Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Go, or similar) and solid general computer science knowledge.
• Decisiveness: Bias toward action; experience building something start to finish in coursework, a personal project, or a past internship.
• Simplicity: Ability to explain complex technical ideas in plain language; seeking the simplest solution that works.
• Job's Not Finished: Proactively seeking feedback, acting on it, and continuing to push after assignment completion.
• AI Forward: Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and curious about building LLMs into your coding workflow.
• Past internship experience at an early-stage startup is a plus.

Compensation

$165,000-$181,500