Staff AI Coding Agent Engineer (Remote-friendly)

Hercules; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited AI token budget

Take what you need vacation policy

Healthcare, vision, and dental

Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in,,

Job summary

Hercules is seeking a senior or staff level AI Context & Harness engineer to help us build the future of AI software development. You will own and advance Hercules' AI coding agent, and oversee online and offline eval frameworks to ensure robust performance.

In this role, you will explore innovative methods to reduce cost while increasing speed and accuracy, leveraging access to 1M+ repos and millions of chat messages.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in software design, architecture, and data modeling.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code and work effectively in monorepos.
• Track record of independently shipping features to customers.
• Deep experience with context and harness engineering concepts: summarization, prompting, memory, caching, RAG, tools.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and own Hercules' AI coding agent.
• Build, maintain, and own Hercules' online evals and offline evals.
• Research ways to make the agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate using large-scale data.

Skills

Software fundamentals

Code quality

Product/design sense

Context and harness engineering

Scale experience

Tools

TypeScript

React

Postgres

Redis

Temporal

Docker

AI SDK

Job description

Hercules is seeking a senior or staff level AI Context & Harness engineer to help us build the future of AI software development. You will own and advance Hercules' AI coding agent, and oversee online and offline eval frameworks to ensure robust performance.

In this role, you will explore innovative methods to reduce cost while increasing speed and accuracy, leveraging access to 1M+ repos and millions of chat messages.