Memeber of Technical Staff, Agent R&D

Who We Are

We’re building OpenHands, an open-source AI platform that empowers engineering teams to accelerate development, automate workflows, and integrate intelligent coding assistance into real-world software delivery.

We are hiring Members of the Technical Staff on our agent team, which is in charge of research and development activities for OpenHands

What You’ll Do

• Incorporating the best research work on agents and code generation into the OpenHands framework

• Performing novel improvements in areas of interest to improve agent performance and efficiency

• Running and implementing evaluations to ensure agent quality

• Implementing infrastructure related to evaluating or serving code generation agents

• Collaborating with the open-source community on research initiatives

What You Bring

• Experience in some of the following areas:

• Significant research in LLM-based agents, code generation, or software engineering

• Practical agent engineering experience, including harness development, training, evaluation, and deployment

• Experience with use of agents in enterprise settings

• Experience in collaborative development of AI related projects, particularly open source

Why Join OpenHands

• Competitive compensation: $150,000 – $220,000 base salary plus equity and bonus

• Remote-first with flexible hours (core hours 12–4pm ET | 4–8pm UTC)

• Fully covered U.S. health, vision, and dental insurance

• Unmetered PTO + holidays

• A culture built on kindness, candor, autonomy, and learning

We Welcome All Applicants

We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive environment where everyone can thrive. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic. If you’re passionate about building great developer tools and excited about the future of AI-powered software development, we’d love to hear from you.