AI Context & Harness Engineer

Hercules • San Francisco, CA

17h • Hybrid

About The Position

Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level AI Context & Harness engineer to help us build the future of AI software development

Requirements

• Software fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design
• Code and codebase quality: write clean, maintainable code. Work effectively in monorepos
• Product/design sense: track record of independently shipping lots of features to customers
• Context and harness engineering: strong experience with the most 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
• AI coding: able to truly 1x your workflow by being on 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 (you will have access to 200k+ repos and millions of chat messages)

Benefits

• Unlimited AI token budget
• Take what you need vacation policy
• Healthcare, vision, and dental
• Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office
• We guarantee you will do the best work of your career here

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees