[Hiring] Founding Engineer @Open Core Ventures

Role Description

Hermes Web is looking for a founding engineer to build the first polished, hosted personal AI agent product. If you want to own product and engineering end-to-end, ship consumer-grade polish in a space that's still raw, and help define what a mainstream AI agent product looks like, this is for you.

Qualifications

• High agency, ship fast without hand-holding
• Strong Python skills — FastAPI or similar production web framework experience required
• Strong frontend skills (React, Next.js, TypeScript) for the chat, memory, and activity surfaces
• Experience with auth, billing, and multi-tenancy in production products
• Container orchestration experience (Kubernetes, Nomad, ECS, or equivalent)
• Experience with AI-native tools (Cursor, Claude Code, model APIs)
• Knowledge of agents, LLM gateways, rate limiting, and abuse prevention
• Comfortable working across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and AI workflows

Requirements

• Someone who has shipped a consumer or prosumer product they're still proud of
• Responds to an aggressive timeline with "tight but doable if we cut X, Y, Z" rather than "let me spec it first."

Bonus Skills

• Experience with agent frameworks (Hermes, OpenClaw, LangGraph)
• LLM gateway or proxy work
• Stripe subscription billing at scale
• Production experience hardening agentically-generated code
• OSS contributions
• Consumer AI product experience (Cowork, Cursor, or similar)

Project: Hosted Hermes Agent Platform

We are building a multi-tenant hosted platform that gives anyone their own personal Hermes agent running in the cloud in under 60 seconds. The agent persists, remembers them, and gets better over time.

• Per-user Hermes containers with network and storage isolation
• A warm pool provisioning system for instant signup-to-first-message
• A production-hardened chat, memory, and activity interface
• An LLM gateway that meters usage, enforces caps, and prevents abuse
• Bundled Claude Sonnet access — users never see an API key or model selector
• Stripe billing infrastructure and self-serve subscription flows

Non-Goals

• Developer-facing platform
• Self-hosted desktop or mobile apps
• Skills marketplace or plugin ecosystem
• Workflow builder, triggers, scheduled agents
• Team accounts, SSO, enterprise features
• Multiple LLM providers or model selection
• Bring-your-own API key
• Forking Hermes — we track upstream and contribute back

Prior Art

• Hermes Agent — the open-source framework we build the hosted experience on top of
• OpenClaw — the largest agent framework today and reference for community patterns and growth dynamics
• LangGraph Deep Agents — architecture patterns for stateful long-running agent workflows
• Anthropic MCP — server design patterns for tool interfaces and permission-aware context
• Cowork (Anthropic) — polish bar and UX patterns for non-technical AI agent products
• Cursor agent UI — interaction model for AI agents in consumer products