Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Own the evaluation strategy for Hercules’ AI coding agent, including offline and online evals. Use large-scale user, repository, and chat data to create evaluations that improve cost, speed, and accuracy while protecting customer privacy. Partner with engineering on implementation and apply expertise in software fundamentals, reward modeling, product and design sense, AI context and harness engineering, and frontier AI coding workflows.

Own Hercules’s end-to-end content production across SEO, blog, social, paid media, static images, video, product announcements, and case studies. Lead a team of approximately 10 employees and contractors, enforce content standards, develop marketing messaging, and hire writers, editors, designers, and creators. The role requires exceptional writing, SEO expertise, commercial judgment, technical fluency, effective use of AI tools, and experience managing at least 15 people.

Write customer case studies and research-driven content about business trends, using interviews, original research, data analysis, charts, editorial judgment, SEO, and AI tools. The role requires exceptional long-form writing, strong business and software understanding, and the ability to independently uncover compelling insights. Hercules strongly prefers San Francisco office work but may consider exceptional remote candidates working US time zones and traveling to the office regularly.

Write and publish technically rigorous engineering blog content by researching systems, interviewing engineers, reading code and technical papers, and explaining architecture, tradeoffs, experiments, and results. Discover new stories, co-write and edit articles, and support content with diagrams, code examples, and data. The role requires exceptional technical writing, engineering fluency, strong research and interviewing skills, editorial judgment, and effective use of AI tools.

Own inbound SMB sales opportunities from qualification through close. Responsibilities include researching product-qualified leads, conducting customer discovery, delivering technical product demonstrations, addressing security, privacy, and procurement reviews, negotiating terms, and closing B2B software deals. The role requires technical understanding of data models, APIs, permissions, integrations, ERP and CRM workflows, enterprise buying requirements, and business-outcome-focused communication.

Own inbound mid-market sales from qualification through close. Research product-qualified opportunities, conduct customer discovery, lead technical product demos, navigate security and procurement reviews, negotiate terms, and close B2B software deals. The role requires technical understanding of data models, APIs, permissions, integrations, ERP and CRM workflows, plus familiarity with enterprise buying requirements including SOC 2, DPAs, and GDPR.

Own and build Hercules’ billing, payments, subscriptions, usage-based billing, monetization, and commerce infrastructure. Integrate payment providers, support currencies and payment methods, and design reliable, low-latency systems with webhook processing, retries, reconciliation, and scalable usage metering. The role requires strong system design, architecture, data modeling, API design, code quality, product judgment, and proficiency with Hercules’ TypeScript-based stack, including React, Postgres, Redis, containers, and Temporal.

Lead development of Hercules's AI-focused platform-as-a-service, including its database-like object model, backend services, APIs, SDKs, hosting infrastructure, and distributed systems. Build reliable, scalable, multi-tenant services with strong isolation, observability, resilience, low latency, and high throughput. Apply advanced Rust, data systems, architecture, API design, performance optimization, and AI-assisted development skills.

Own Hercules’ full data stack, including ETL from third-party providers into BigQuery, data modeling with dbt and medallion architecture, semantic-layer metric definition, and self-service business intelligence in Omni. Build reliable, maintainable systems and dashboards while applying strong software architecture, API design, code quality, and AI-assisted development practices.

Own growth across the customer journey, including landing-page conversion, activation, paid conversion, retention, expansion, and monetization. Build and optimize product experiences, run A/B experiments, analyze results with SQL, and identify high-impact revenue opportunities. Develop scalable software using TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, and related technologies while applying AI to accelerate engineering workflows.