Member of Technical Staff – Infrastructure

Hone builds AI that owns outcomes, not tasks: agentic systems that work towards goals over weeks and months, deploy themselves, and improve over time.

About Hone

Models keep getting smarter, but outside of coding most organizations can't absorb that intelligence, and the gap between model capability and the value derived from it keeps widening. The reasons are many, from human incentives to org design, but at the core we think it's a technology problem. Hone builds engines: AI systems that you hand a goal, like "keep the recruiting pipeline healthy." An engine builds itself, maintains its own agents and code, pulls in people when it needs judgment, and learns from every correction.

In October 2026, we announced a $60M seed round from Benchmark and Index Ventures.

• Half our team are former founders: They’ve built companies, shipped products, and chosen Hone as the place to build next. The rest of us come from Cognition, Mercor, Ramp, Jane Street, Decagon, Brex and Harvey

• Our customers are building with AI themselves: Cognition, Modal and Lucanet already use Hone, with customer perspectives featured on our website

• Our founders have built from research to scale: They researched agents at Stanford, built the core of Devin at Cognition, led enterprise engineering at Mercor, built internal AI platforms, and founded companies that reached over one million users

• We measure our work by economic impact: Engines are deployed across revenue, procurement, risk, product and operations, and we judge them by the results they create, not benchmark scores

• Our values shape how we work: Own the Outcome, Set the Standard, Win with Class, and Commit to the Racing Line. Read more on our careers page

• Read more: Bloomberg, Index Ventures’ investment thesis, and our launch announcement

The Role

Engines orchestrate agent swarms for weeks or months, hold state, and take real actions inside a company's systems. You'll own the layer every engine runs on as we scale: sandboxes and their state, the runners that house our harness, the event infrastructure that connects it all, and the architecture that lets us deploy seamlessly into customer environments.

What You'll Work On

• MicroVM sandboxes that live for months, with snapshotting, forking and replay.

• Harness runners that are durable, efficient, and nearly free to start.

• Event infrastructure that connects engines, agents, sandboxes and customer systems.

• Concurrency, synchronization and locking within agent swarms.

• One deployment architecture for SaaS, single-tenant and customer VPCs.

• Internal AI tooling that automates our infra, deployment monitoring, and maintenance.

Requirements

• 2+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent depth from research, open source or your own projects

• Time at a fast-growing startup

• You've designed and built systems from scratch

• You've scaled and operated production infrastructure under real load

• Strong systems fundamentals: distributed systems, Linux, networking, concurrency, file systems

• You use coding agents every day and still understand every line you ship

• You build and tinker for fun because you genuinely care about how the technology works

Nice to Have

• You've built a sandboxing, durable-execution or browser-infra product

How We Hire

1. Intro with a co-founder.

2. Technical screen.

3. Infrastructure deep dive.

4. Two-day work trial in San Francisco.

5. References.

6. Offer.

Logistics

• Location: San Francisco, in person, Sunday to Friday.

• Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful equity.

• Visa: We sponsor visas and support you through the immigration process.

• Benefits: Health and dental insurance, maternity and parental support, and relocation support.