Member of Technical Staff – Infrastructure

Hone•San Francisco, CA

12h•Onsite

About The Position

Hone builds AI systems called engines that pursue goals over weeks or months, deploy themselves, maintain their own agents and code, involve people when judgment is needed, and learn from corrections. The Member of Technical Staff – Infrastructure will own the infrastructure layer that every engine runs on as Hone scales. The role covers long-lived sandboxes and their state, harness runners, event infrastructure connecting engines with agents, sandboxes and customer systems, and architecture for deployment into customer environments. The position is based in San Francisco and is in person.

Requirements

At least 2 years of engineering experience, or equivalent depth from research, open source or personal projects.
Experience at a fast-growing startup.
Experience designing and building systems from scratch.
Experience scaling and operating production infrastructure under real load.
Strong systems fundamentals, including distributed systems, Linux, networking, concurrency and file systems.
Use coding agents every day while understanding every line shipped.
Build and tinker for fun and have a genuine interest in how technology works.

Nice To Haves

Experience building a sandboxing, durable-execution or browser-infrastructure product.

Responsibilities

Build and operate microVM sandboxes that can run for months, with snapshotting, forking and replay.
Build durable, efficient harness runners that are nearly free to start.
Develop event infrastructure connecting engines, agents, sandboxes and customer systems.
Address concurrency, synchronization and locking within agent swarms.
Develop a deployment architecture for SaaS, single-tenant and customer VPC environments.
Build internal AI tooling to automate infrastructure, deployment monitoring and maintenance.