AI Engines Systems Engineer — Sandboxes & Orchestration

Hone; Witney; On-site; GBP 106,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Parental support

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Hone is hiring a backend-focused engineer to own the core infra that powers our agentic AI engines. You will maintain sandboxes, runners, and the event network that ties engines to customer systems, building scalable and robust infrastructure.

The role requires design and operation of production-scale systems, with a strong emphasis on distributed architectures, concurrency, and secure, efficient execution. San Francisco-based, visa sponsorship offered.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent depth from research, open source or personal projects.
• Experience at a fast-growing startup is a plus.
• You've designed and built systems from scratch.
• You've scaled and operated production infrastructure under real load.
• Strong fundamentals: distributed systems, Linux, networking, concurrency, file systems.
• You code daily with agents and understand what you ship.
• You tinker with technology because you care how it works.

Responsibilities

• Own the layer engines run on: sandboxes and their state, harness runners, and event infrastructure.
• Build durable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure for agent swarms.
• Develop a unified deployment architecture for SaaS, single-tenant and customer VPCs.
• Create internal AI tooling to automate infra, monitoring, and maintenance.

Skills

Distributed systems

Linux

Concurrency

Go/Rust

System design

Job description

Hone is hiring a backend-focused engineer to own the core infra that powers our agentic AI engines. You will maintain sandboxes, runners, and the event network that ties engines to customer systems, building scalable and robust infrastructure.

The role requires design and operation of production-scale systems, with a strong emphasis on distributed architectures, concurrency, and secure, efficient execution. San Francisco-based, visa sponsorship offered.