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Staff Software Engineer, Model Infrastructure

AI summary of the role

Staff-level role leading the design and development of Harvey's model infrastructure platform, which powers all AI requests across the company.

What you’ll do

  • Lead design and implementation of Harvey's Model Infrastructure platform.
  • Build systems for high availability, low latency, and operational excellence for AI inference.
  • Design and improve Unified Model Controller (UMC) and Model Selector for intelligent traffic routing based on reliability, latency, quality, compliance, and cost.
  • Develop model provisioning, capacity management, failover, and traffic engineering across multiple AI providers.

What you’ll bring

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience designing and operating highly available production services.
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Python, Rust, or C++.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, and observability.

Technologies

Go · Java · Python · Rust · C++ · Kubernetes · Kafka · Spark · Flink · Airflow · Iceberg · OpenAI

About Harvey

Agentic AI platform purpose-built for elite law firms and in-house legal teams to automate research, drafting, document review, and complex matter workflows.

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Source and classification

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information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started. Role Overview As a Staff Software Engineer on the Model Infrastructure team, you'll lead the design and development of the systems that power every AI request at Harvey. You'll partner closely with AI Research, Product Engineering, Infrastructure, and external model providers to build a platform that is highly reliable, scalable, observable, and efficient. What You’ll Do Lead the design and implementation of Harvey's Model Infrastructure platform. Build systems to ensure high availability, low latency, and operational excellence for AI inference. Design and improve
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Why Harvey At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come. This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched. Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started. Role Overview As a Staff Software Engineer on the Model Infrastructure team, you'll lead the design and development of the systems that power every AI request at Harvey. You'll partner cl [... source excerpt omitted ...] lerting, token usage analytics, cost reporting, and end-to-end telemetry. Partner with Product Engineering to support model launches, experimentation, and proactive monitoring of production AI workloads. Drive infrastructure efficiency through capacity planning, utilization optimization, and cost visibility. Collaborate with AI Research to build the infrastructure foundation for future model evaluation, training, and deployment. Lead cross-functional technical initiatives and mentor engineers across the organization. What You’ll Build Model Reliability & Operations Model health monitoring Automated failover and recovery Capacity provisioning Operational tooling and incide [... source excerpt omitted ...] infrastructure and CcaaS What You Have 7+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems. Experience designing and operating highly available production services. Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Python, Rust, or C++. Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, and observability. Experience leading technical projects across multiple engineering teams. Ability to balance long-term architecture with pragmatic execution. Strong communication and collaboration skills. Passion for building foundational platforms that enable other engineering teams. Nice to Have Experience with AI infrastructure, LLM ser

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