Member of Technical Staff, Agent Infrastructure
Hark Open · verified Oct 24, 2026 At a glance
Senior Software Engineering role at Hark. San Jose · $170,000–$400,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build the agent runtime, connecting orchestration, tool use, memory retrieval and streaming into a dependable platform
- Take features from early prototypes with model researchers through launch, then refine them using actual usage
- Design reusable platform building blocks, including execution sandboxes, memory APIs and streaming pipelines
- Create evaluations, watch for quality declines and route findings back to model and product teams
- Work across the software stack when solving the problem calls for it
What you bring
- At least five years of relevant software engineering work
- Strong systems skills, including API design, dependable infrastructure and reasoning about performance, concurrency and failures
- Experience delivering production software that users rely on, plus hands-on work with LLMs and an interest in agent reliability
Who this fits
This senior, high-ownership role suits an engineer comfortable turning unclear problems into working systems and improving them quickly. You’ll collaborate directly with model researchers and product builders on a small team.
From the employer
About Hark
Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.
We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today's AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade-old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.
To get there, we're developing multimodal models and next-generation AI hardware together - designed from the ground up as a single, unified interface for a new era of intelligent systems.
About the Role
You'll build the platform that powers Hark's AI agent — the runtime, the infrastructure, the primitives. Everything that makes the intelligence actually works in production.
That means owning the hard systems problems, such as low-latency streaming, reliable tool execution, memory and context at scale, and orchestration logic that holds up under real usage. You will be building the foundation that everything else runs on.
This is a high-ownership role on a small team. You'll work directly with the people building the models and the people shipping the product, and the systems you build will define what's possible for both.
Responsibilities
- Build the core runtime that powers Hark's agent platform. Orchestration, tool execution, memory retrieval, streaming, and the systems that make all of it work reliably together.
- Own features end-to-end, from early prototyping alongside model researchers to production deployment and iteration based on real usage.
- Architect the platform primitives that the rest of the product team builds on. Agent runtimes, execution sandboxes, memory APIs, streaming pipelines.
- Instrument and evaluate the product. Write evals, track quality regressions, and feed signals back into the model and product loop.
- Work across the stack when the problem requires it.
Requirements
- Strong systems engineering fundamentals. You are comfortable designing APIs, building reliable infrastructure, and reasoning about performance, concurrency, and failure modes.
- Experience building production systems that real users depend on. You know the difference between something that works in a demo and something that works at scale.
- Genuine curiosity about AI and agents. You have built with LLMs, thought about how they fail, and have opinions about what makes agentic systems reliable.
- Comfort with ambiguity and fast iteration. You can start with a rough problem, build something real, learn from it, and improve quickly.
- Strong communication. You can explain tradeoffs clearly, collaborate across teams, and make good decisions with incomplete information.
- 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience. Experience at a fast-growing AI or infrastructure-focused company is a strong plus.
- Bonus: hands-on experience with agent frameworks, streaming architectures, execution sandboxes, memory systems, or tool integration protocols.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience at a fast-growing AI or infrastructure-focused company.
- Hands-on experience with agent frameworks.
- Experience with streaming architectures.
- Experience with execution sandboxes.
- Experience with memory systems or tool integration protocols.
Compensation
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $170,000 - $400,000 annually.
The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.
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