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Staff Software Engineer, AI Agent

Hercules · San Francisco

Staff Software Engineer, AI Agent is open at Hercules in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $100K - $350K. Posted on Oct 4, 2026, and still on Hercules’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.

About the role

What are we looking for? Hercules https://hercules.app 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…

The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Hercules’s careers page.

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Hercules has 30 open roles right now, 11 of them remote. Most are in Engineering, Marketing & Community and Sales & Business Development. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $175K. See all its roles

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