Hercules
Staff Technical Product Manager, AI Agent
Staff-level technical product manager who owns Hercules' AI coding agent, with the single goal of making it cheaper, faster, and more accurate by designing the context/harness system and running online/offline evals on large usage data. Requires hands-on coding ability (TypeScript, React, AI SDK) and deep AI context-engineering experience; San Francisco in-office strongly preferred.
- Compensation
- $100K–$250K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Senior or staff level product management experience
- Technical and able to code, with solid understanding of system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design
- Strong product sense: intuition for customer goals and novel solutions
- Design sense: track record of building simple, delightful UX/UI
- Strong experience with up-to-date AI context and harness engineering best practices (summarization/compression, prompting, prompt caching, subagents, memory, context management, tools, skills) at scal
- Proficiency with the core stack: TypeScript, React, an agent framework (e.g. AI SDK), and an eval platform (e.g. LangSmith)
- On the frontier of AI coding and able to 10x workflow with AI
- Alignment with hiring-filter principles: we ship, we strive for excellence, we are hungry
Nice to have
- In-office in San Francisco; remote considered for exceptional candidates in US time zones willing to travel to the office regularly
Full description
What are we looking for?
Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level product manager to own our AI coding agent.
What will you do?
- Your #1 and only goal is to make Hercules' AI coding agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate (our pareto frontier)
- You will own Hercules' online evals and offline evals. We believe evals are mission critical to our success and so explicitly require someone with experience building out technical evals
- You will own Hercules' entire context/harness system design (which includes system prompt, tools, memory, skills, summarization/compression, hooks, codebase design etc)
- You will leverage our 100k+ users, 200k+ code repos, and millions of chat threads to guide your experimentation.
What skills do we expect you to have?
We expect candidates to be incredibly strong across all of the following areas:
- Software fundamentals: You are building an AI coding agent. We expect you to be technical and able to code. We expect you to have a decent understanding of system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design. In saying this, you will work with an engineering counterpart to work on complex implementation
- Product sense: strong intuition for the goals customers are trying to achieve and novel solutions to help them achieve them
- Design sense: Track record of building simple, delightful UX/UI that makes it easy for customers to achieve their goals
- AI context and harness engineering: strong experience with the most up to date context and harness engineering best practices like summarization/compression, prompting, prompt caching, subagents, memory, context management, tools, async tools, deferred tools, skills, etc
- 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
- Our core stack: TypeScript, React, (some sort of agent framework like AI SDK), (some sort of eval platform like LangSmith)
- AI: able to truly 10x your workflow by being on frontier of AI coding
What’s Hercules’ stack?
- Technologies: Typescript, React, AI SDK, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, Tailwind, IaC (CDK, Terraform), Docker, Otel, Hono, Drizzle ORM, Temporal
- Clouds: Cloudflare, AWS
- AI Models: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google