Legal Engineer

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Toronto, ON, CAN
Hybrid
193K-289K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Legal Tech • Professional Services • Software
The Role
Legal Engineer partners with lawyers and prospective customers to identify workflow challenges, recommend AI solutions, and deliver tailored product demonstrations. The role translates customer feedback and legal workflows into product direction, collaborates with product, engineering, sales, and marketing teams, and develops credible workflows and use cases that drive adoption. Candidates need corporate legal experience, in-house experience, strong commercial judgment, cross-functional communication skills, and a Canadian practicing certificate or equivalent qualification.
Summary Generated by Built In
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

Harvey’s Legal Engineers are former practicing lawyers who bridge customers, sales, and product to support all aspects of our sales strategy and product development. As trusted advisors to the lawyers they work with, they lead sharp discovery and tailored product demonstrations, translating real legal work into Harvey solutions that provide clear value for lawyers.

As strategic partners to law firms and in-house teams, Legal Engineers thrive in ambiguity and help lawyers do higher-quality work faster and with more confidence using Harvey.

What You'll Do
  • Work directly with lawyers at current and prospective customers to uncover workflow pain points, recommend solutions, and show how Harvey fits into real legal work.

  • Serve as the voice of the customer, translating feedback and legal workflow insights into concrete, lawyer-ready product direction.

  • Partner closely with product, engineering, sales, and marketing to shape Harvey’s roadmap and ensure the product evolves in ways lawyers trust and adopt.

  • Build and refine product demonstrations, workflows, and use cases that reflect how legal teams actually work, including how AI is changing that work.

  • Introduce new capabilities in a way that’s tailored, credible, and compelling for each customer, continuously raising the bar for how Harvey is deployed.


What You Have

You move confidently through uncertainty, you operate at speed, and ship solutions that work—iterating quickly with lawyers, sales teams, and product partners to help Harvey and its customers win. You bring deep curiosity about AI's potential to transform legal work, a bias toward action, and the creativity to solve problems nobody's cracked yet.

  • Based in Toronto and eligible to work in Canada.

  • Canadian practicing certificate (or equivalent common-law qualification) with 3+ years’ experience as a qualified lawyer, including meaningful in-house experience at a corporation or financial institution (with prior top-tier law firm experience strongly preferred).

  • Strong background as a corporate attorney, with hands-on experience advising on corporate, commercial, and/or regulatory matters within an in-house legal team.

  • Deep understanding of corporate legal workflows (e.g., commercial contracting, governance, compliance, or transactions) and curiosity about how AI can reshape them.

  • Proven ability to navigate business-oriented legal environments, balancing legal risk with practical commercial outcomes.

  • Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment and make confident, well-reasoned recommendations in fast-paced, ambiguous settings.

  • Ability to operate seamlessly across legal, product, and sales contexts—translating between stakeholders with clarity and precision.

  • Executive presence and strong relationship-building skills, with experience engaging business stakeholders, senior leadership, and cross-functional partners.

  • Experience working cross-functionally with product, sales, or business teams in an in-house setting; customer-facing or business development experience is a plus.

  • French speaking is a plus.

Compensation

CAD $192,800 - $289,200 OTE 75/25

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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 [email protected]

Skills Required

  • Based in Toronto and eligible to work in Canada
  • Canadian practicing certificate or equivalent common-law qualification
  • 3+ years of experience as a qualified lawyer
  • Meaningful in-house legal experience at a corporation or financial institution
  • Strong background as a corporate attorney
  • Hands-on experience advising on corporate, commercial, and/or regulatory matters within an in-house legal team
  • Deep understanding of corporate legal workflows, including contracting, governance, compliance, or transactions
  • Ability to balance legal risk with practical commercial outcomes
  • Sound judgment and ability to make well-reasoned recommendations in ambiguous settings
  • Ability to work across legal, product, and sales contexts
  • Executive presence and strong relationship-building skills
  • Experience engaging business stakeholders, senior leadership, and cross-functional partners
  • Experience working cross-functionally with product, sales, or business teams in an in-house setting
  • Prior top-tier law firm experience
  • Customer-facing or business development experience
  • French speaking

Harvey Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Harvey and has not been reviewed or approved by Harvey.

  • Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and fertility benefits. This breadth indicates robust health protections within the total rewards package.
  • Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is prominently offered with eligibility starting on day one. Family-building support complements leave policies to support different life stages.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is routinely positioned alongside competitive cash, with communications emphasizing pre-IPO upside. This signals meaningful access to ownership as part of compensation.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
373 Employees
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

Harvey is a generative AI company backed by Sequoia and OpenAI's startup fund building the future of professional services.

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