Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Harvey

Compensation

$200,000 – $260,000/yr

Location: New York, New York
Level: Senior
Posted: Feb 9, 2026

Description

Harvey is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join their founding team. This role involves embedding with enterprise customers to transform cutting-edge AI systems into production-ready workflows, delivering measurable outcomes rapidly. The engineer will handle everything from prototyping to deployment, identifying patterns from the field, and feeding insights back into Harvey's platform and product development. Based in New York, NY, this position requires an in-person work model and offers relocation assistance.

Required Skills

Software Development
LLM Applications
Evaluation Frameworks
Communication Skills
Collaborative Work

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years building and operating production software with meaningful 0→1 ownership and the ability to operate under ambiguity.
Experience building LLM-powered applications (retrieval, tools/agents, structured outputs, prompt/runtime safety) and taking them to production.
Preferred Qualifications: Comfort working directly with customers—from scoping ambiguous problems to shipping, integrating, training, and iterating on adoption.
Practical experience with evals (designing task suites, pipelines, and dashboards that reflect user quality); you use evals to drive model/product decisions.
Clear, concise communication; low-ego collaboration; appetite for in-person pairing with teammates and customers in NYC.