Harvey
Software Engineer, New Grad (2027)
San Francisco · Junior · Internship
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$131 more — $165,131 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $165,131 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- We're currently hiring new grads to start in 2027 across multiple teams and roles, including Frontend, Backend, Full-Stack, Infrastructure, and Applied AI roles.
- Your interests & experience will be factored into our team matching process, where you'll have the opportunity to learn about teams across Harvey including Agents, Applied AI, Assistant, Enterprise, Infrastructure, Mobile, Vault and many others.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and ship production-level code across the stack while maintaining high quality, reliability, and security standards. You'll use AI-assisted development tools daily, and you'll own the quality of everything you ship-AI-generated or not.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including AI Research, Legal Engineering, Product, and Design to translate problem statements into compelling product experiences.
- Collaborate with your team through code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best-practice development alongside senior and staff engineers.
- Depending on your team, you could work on retrieval over large document collections, interfaces for collaborating with AI systems, multi-region compute infrastructure, enterprise agents, or secure systems for sensitive client data.
- Able to work from our New York or San Francisco office starting in January 2027 and beyond, based on your graduation schedule. Relocation support is available.
- AI Forward. Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and curious about building LLMs into your own coding workflow.
- Design, implement, and ship production-level code across the stack while maintaining high quality, reliability, and security standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, graduated either in Winter 2026 - Spring 2027.
- Previous internship experience is required.
- Strong proficiency in one or more languages (Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Go, or similar) and solid general computer science knowledge.
- You have a bias toward action.
- You've built something start to finish in coursework, a personal project, or a past internship, and you know the difference between a decision you should make yourself and one worth getting feedback on.
- You can explain a complex technical idea in plain language, whether or not the person you're explaining it to is an engineer.
- You look for the simplest solution that works, and you know when added complexity is worth it.
Nice to have
- Job's Not Finished.
- You aren't satisfied when something merely works.
- You proactively seek out feedback, act on it, and keep pushing after the assignment is technically complete.
- Past internship experience at an early-stage startup is a plus.
Compensation
- $165,000-$181,500
Company info
- WHY HARVEY At Harvey, we're transforming how legal and professional services operate.
- 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 act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are.
This listing is sourced directly from Harvey's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.