# Staff Software Engineer, AI Agent at Hercules

- Company: Hercules
- What the company does: Build custom software for your business without hiring a developer. Create internal tools, customer apps, and websites by chatting with AI. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz.
- Company website: https://hercules.app
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $100K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-04
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hercules/9ee9a087-9c1b-40e3-ab15-f28d42802314?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hercules-staff-software-engineer-ai-agent/

## About the role

Research novel ways to make our agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate (you will have access to 1M+ repos and millions of chat messages) AI coding : able to truly 10x your workflow by being on frontier of AI coding Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're 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
- 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
- Yes, we know this industry is evolving rapidly and the "best practices" change every week, but yes, we are still actively looking for someone who has wrestled with these challenges at scale and has strong opinions about what works and what doesn't

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hercules-staff-software-engineer-ai-agent/