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Salary: USD 163,900 - 245,900 / annual
Harvey is an AI platform transforming legal and professional services through frontier agentic AI, enterprise-grade infrastructure, and deep domain expertise. The company is at a significant inflection point with strong product-market fit, world-class investor backing, and rapid scaling.
You will lead technical recruiting for Harvey Labs, the company's AI research organization, reporting to the Chief Research Officer and technical leadership. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role building the research team from the ground up, initially focused on post-training talent across data and evaluations, infrastructure, and modeling/training specializations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partnering with the CRO and Harvey Labs leadership to translate technical priorities into recruiting strategies
- Owning full-cycle recruiting for specialized AI/ML, research, and engineering roles
- Building deep talent maps across leading AI companies, research labs, startups, academia, and open-source communities
- Developing creative, high-touch sourcing and engagement strategies for experienced researchers and emerging talent
- Helping leaders define candidate profiles, calibrate talent bars, and evolve search strategies based on market insights
- Advising leadership on talent availability, competitive dynamics, compensation, and candidate motivations
- Driving searches from initial market mapping through offer strategy, negotiation, and close
- Using data and market intelligence to continuously improve recruiting strategy
- Building scalable recruiting processes and raising the bar for technical recruiting across Harvey
Harvey's culture emphasizes decisiveness, simplicity, and relentless execution ("Job's Not Finished"). The team moves fast, takes ownership, and operates with intensity while staying close to customers.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Experience recruiting for technical AI research teams or similarly specialized technical roles
- Strong aptitude for understanding complex technical domains and evaluating candidate qualifications
- Exceptional sourcing skills with ability to identify hard-to-find talent across research labs, startups, academia, open source, and nontraditional channels
- Willingness to take creative, white-glove approaches to engaging and closing exceptional talent
- Ability to build credibility with highly technical leaders and candidates as a trusted advisor
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to help shape searches when profiles aren't fully defined
- Strong instincts for talent and genuine interest in the evolving AI landscape
- Data-driven and highly organized, able to manage multiple complex searches without sacrificing candidate experience
- High ownership, low ego, strong judgment, and willingness to roll up sleeves
- Leadership by example and ability to elevate the broader recruiting team
- Resourcefulness and fluency with modern AI tools to accelerate research, sourcing, outreach, market mapping, and recruiting operations
About Harvey
Legal / Compliance / Risk; AI / Data / Infrastructure — AI platform for legal and professional services work.
