Staff Software Engineer, AI Agent

What are we looking for? Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level AI Context & Harness engineer to help us build the future of AI software development What will you do? 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 (you will have access to 1M+ repos and millions of chat messages) What skills do we expect you to have? We expect candidates to be incredibly strong across all of the following areas: 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 Yes, we know this industry is evolving rapidly and the "best practices" change every week,…