Forward Deployed Finance Engineer, Harvey
Buyout
$254.6-350k
OTE
75/25 Split + Equity
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
Be an early applicant
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$254.6-350k
OTE
75/25 Split + Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help professionals develop expertise, faster.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years on the investment team at a buyout fund — middle-market or lower-middle-market, ideally with add-on activity — or a growth-buyout or sector-specialist fund, with demonstrated ownership of live deal work: screening, underwriting, diligence workstreams, modeling, and drafting investment committee materials. Investment banking or transaction advisory experience before the buyside is welcome, but principal-side deal execution is required
- Strong command of the documents and data that drive a buyout decision — CIM and management presentation, QoE and data pack, banker and operating models, LBO, purchase agreement and financing terms — and an instinct for where the numbers and the paper disagree
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling, comfort with prompting and agentic AI workflows, and a builder's instinct for turning a repeated manual process into a repeatable automation. Python, SQL, or experience building internal tools is a plus
- Executive presence and relationship-building skills, with the ability to establish credibility from analysts and associates through to partners and investment committee members
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills — comfortable leading a live demo, facilitating a workshop, or holding your own in a technical conversation about an underwriting assumption
- Deep curiosity about AI's potential to transform investment work, paired with a practical, solutions-oriented mindset and bias toward action
- Track record partnering with senior stakeholders to drive results, with curiosity for testing approaches and optimizing for customer outcomes
- Customer-facing or commercial experience (LP or investor relations, capital formation, banking coverage, business development) and/or hands-on experience using AI tools in an investment setting are pluses
What the job involves
- Harvey's Finance Engineering team is the investment-side counterpart to our Legal Engineering team: former investment professionals who bring real deal experience to Harvey's prospects and customers
- Forward Deployed Finance Engineers lead discovery, demos, pilots, trainings, onboarding, and custom builds alongside our AEs and CSMs
- They translate real investment work into Harvey solutions, serving as the trust layer across the entire customer lifecycle, from the first pilot to the most complex, custom-built workflow
- Finance Engineers work on Harvey Deals, a new product built off of Harvey's acquisition of Benchmark
- Harvey Deals is where investment teams run their deals — screening, underwriting, diligence, and committee materials — built in the firm's own templates and formats, with every figure traceable back to the document it came from
- Harvey works with 150+ asset management firms and analyzes 178M+ documents each month; the Finance Engineering team is how that capability meets the way deal teams actually work
- Finance Engineers understand how investors think and work, and use that expertise to design, build, and refine solutions that hold up under live deal pressure
- In doing so, they don't just drive adoption; they shape Harvey's product roadmap, ensuring every release is grounded in what investment teams actually need
- It's a team built to make Harvey the platform investment teams can trust with their most important work
- This role is the first Finance Engineer dedicated to buyout
- You will build the buyout playbook — demo library, workflow templates, use cases — while running live pilots, and lead the buyout practice as the team grows
- You may be asked to travel around 2–3+ times per month
- Travel is always for a significant business need and typically is for 1–3 days at a time
- Forward Deployed Finance Engineers on the buyout team are former deal professionals who left the investment side to help build the future of how deals get done
- Working closely with Account Executives, they engage with middle-market and lower-middle-market buyout funds, sector specialists, and serial acquirers throughout the pre-sales process and stay with them well past it — leading pilots on live opportunities, guiding sponsors through what's possible with AI, and sitting down with deal teams to build screening, underwriting, diligence, and investment committee workflows in the firm's own templates and formats
- The work is the work they did on the desk: CIM and management presentation review; QoE and data pack analysis; banker and operating model interrogation; LBO and returns analysis; comps; add-on screening; and investment committee materials
- It continues post-close into portfolio monitoring, add-on pipeline tracking, and valuation support, so value compounds after the first deal
- Along the way, Finance Engineers bring deal-team feedback back into the product, helping shape the future of Harvey
Our take
The explosive popularity of generative AI tools has seen specialized solutions popping up for all kinds of industries. Hoping to help supercharge efficiency and productivity for legal teams, Harvey supplies generative AI that can assist with documentation, as well as aid research and optimize workflows.
Via natural language instructions, Harvey helps draft and analyze legal documents. It can also answer complex questions across large document sets, or even handle research queries that cover multiple domains in legal, regulatory and tax.
Its ability to support legal practitioners as if it's another member of the team is what makes Harvey particularly interesting. This approach has seen the company raise substantial funding, reaching Unicorn status in 2024. Funds are now being used to expand to new geographies, grow headcount and further collect and curate data to train more “domain-specific” AI models.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Mar 2026
$200m
LATE VC
Oct 2025
$59m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Winston Weinberg
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated with a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law, then spent 1 year as an Associate at O'Melveny & Myers before founding Harvey.
Gabe Pereyra
(Co-Founder & President)Previously worked as a Research Scientist at Meta and DeepMind. Also spent a year as a Brain Resident at Google.
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