AI Context & Harness Engineer
Hercules•San Francisco, CA
•Hybrid
About The Position
Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level AI Context & Harness engineer to help build the future of AI software development. This role involves building, maintaining, and owning Hercules' AI coding agent, as well as its online and offline evaluation systems. The engineer will also research novel ways to make the agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate, leveraging access to over 200,000 repositories and millions of chat messages.
Requirements
- Incredibly strong software fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code and work effectively in monorepos
- Product/design sense: track record of independently shipping lots of features to customers
- Context and harness engineering: strong experience with up-to-date context and harness engineering best practices like summarization/compression, prompting, prompt caching, subagents, memory, context management, tools, async tools, deferred tools, RAG, skills, etc.
- Experience wrestling with these challenges at scale and having strong opinions about what works and what doesn't
- Able to truly 10x your workflow by being on the frontier of AI coding
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and own Hercules' AI coding agent
- Build, maintain, and own Hercules' online evals and offline evals
- Research novel ways to make our agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate
Benefits
- Unlimited AI token budget
- Take what you need vacation policy
- Healthcare, vision, and dental
- Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office
- Guarantee you will do the best work of your career here
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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