Staff Software Engineer, AI Agent

Hercules•San Francisco, CA
•$100,000 - $350,000•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. This role will involve 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 1 million repositories and millions of chat messages.

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 skills: strong experience with the most up to date context and harness engineering best practices like summarization/compression, prompting, prompt caching, subagents, memory, dreaming, context management, tools, async tools, deferred tools, RAG, skills, etc.
  • Experience wrestling with these challenges at scale and has strong opinions about what works and what doesn't
  • AI coding: able to truly 10x 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

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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