AI Context & Harness Product Manager

Hercules•San Francisco, CA

19h•$100,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level product manager to own our AI coding agent. Your #1 and only goal is to make Hercules' AI coding agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate (our pareto frontier) You will own Hercules' entire context/harness system design (which includes system prompt, tools, memory, skills, summarization/compression, hooks, codebase design etc) You will own Hercules' online evals and offline evals You will leverage our 100k+ users, 200k+ code repos, and millions of chat threads to guide your experimentation.

Requirements

Software fundamentals: You are building an AI coding agent. We expect you to be technical and able to code. We expect you to have a decent understanding of system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design. In saying this, you will work with an engineering counterpart to work on complex implementation
Product sense: strong intuition for the goals customers are trying to achieve and novel solutions to help them achieve them
Design sense: Track record of building simple, delightful UX/UI that makes it easy for customers to achieve their goals
AI 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, skills, etc

Responsibilities

Make Hercules' AI coding agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate
Own Hercules' entire context/harness system design
Own Hercules' online evals and offline evals
Leverage our 100k+ users, 200k+ code repos, and millions of chat threads to guide your experimentation.