Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
The Applied Legal Researcher role stands out as an example of how SaaS companies are productising expert knowledge work into enterprise platforms. Harvey is building an AI-driven system for legal and professional services, and the listing signals a company operating at meaningful scale, with a broad customer base and a clear focus on embedding domain expertise directly into product development.
For a SaaS career, this kind of position offers a distinctive pathway into product and applied AI work without requiring a traditional engineering background. The work sits at the intersection of customer workflow discovery, dataset and benchmark creation, and iterative system improvement, all of which map closely to how SaaS teams ship, measure, and refine capabilities in production. Experience translating complex requirements across product, design, engineering, and clients is highly portable across enterprise SaaS, particularly in vertical and regulated categories.
This role is best suited to professionals who enjoy turning ambiguous, real-world work into structured inputs that software can learn from. It will likely appeal to researchers and practitioners who are comfortable balancing deep subject matter detail with cross-functional collaboration, and who want their expertise to influence how a SaaS product behaves at scale.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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. With 1500+ customers in 60+ countries, 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
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. We have incredible product-market fit and demand across diverse customer profiles. Executing on this demand requires a strong understanding of our customers' workflows and how those workflows can be accelerated by AI systems.
What You'll Do
To facilitate the development of these systems, 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
What You Have
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 - 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
Compensation Range
$180,000 - $220,000 USD
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Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai
