Harness Engineer, Director
Core
Lead a new internal team to build the 'harness' environment that steers AI coding agents toward correct, maintainable, well-architected output, shifting quality enforcement from human audit to system control.
Role type
Director, AI Harness Engineering (hands-on IC leadership)
Builds
The harness environment including feedforward guides, feedback sensors, custom linters, verification loops, LLM-as-judge reviewers, and AI governance controls.
Domain
AI-assisted software engineering / Agent orchestration / Engineering tooling
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex), engineering tooling (linters, static analysis, CI/CD), spec-driven development, agent orchestration, systems mindset, AI governance, security surface for autonomous agents, distributed team management
Preferred skills
Evangelism, internal enablement, navigating organizational change from AI adoption
Technologies
AGENTS.md, containerized build/test environments, instrumentation/observability
Responsibilities
Design and build harness components (guides, guardrails, context); establish AI governance and quality-gating standards; manage and coach a geographically distributed team; define observability measures for agent work; partner with product management to align harness with roadmaps.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC leadership
