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Agent Systems Engineer

EngineeringRemote · WorldwideFull-time$180k – $250k + equity

About the role

Crew is Gray's multi-agent layer: Claude, Codex, Grok, Gemini, and Cursor running in parallel, each with a job, a file scope, and a status. You will build the orchestration that keeps them productive and the guardrails that keep them safe.

What you will own

  • Design the agent orchestration layer — scheduling, file scoping, conflict resolution
  • Build remote approvals: pause an agent on a risky step, surface the exact command, resume on a word
  • Make agents steerable mid-task; a redirect should take effect in seconds
  • Define how agents report progress so a voice summary is always possible
  • Evaluate new models and agent frameworks as they ship — weekly, not quarterly

What you bring

  • You've built on top of LLM APIs in production — tool use, long-running jobs, retries
  • Strong backend fundamentals: queues, state machines, idempotency
  • Security instincts; you think about blast radius before features
  • Clear writing — your specs become the product

Nice to have

  • Experience with coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as a power user
  • You've run agents against real infrastructure and have scars

What we offer

  • Meaningful equity. Every role carries a real stake in Layer Gray, with a 10-year exercise window.
  • Remote, worldwide. Work from anywhere. We hire for the role, not the time zone.
  • Hardware budget. $4,000 for your machines, plus a home server allowance — you should run Gray on your own box.
  • Flexible time off. 25 days minimum, and we mean minimum. We track outcomes, not hours.
  • Health covered. Full medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents, wherever you are.
  • Two offsites a year. The whole crew, one room, twice a year. The rest of the time, async.
  • Model subscriptions. Claude, GPT, and friends — every frontier model subscription, paid.
  • Learning budget. $2,000 a year for books, courses, and conferences. No approval theatre.

About Gray

Gray is voice-first AI you operate like a terminal. You speak; it runs real work across your machines — SSH sessions, multi-agent jobs, files, scheduled tasks — then speaks back. It is self-hosted, private by architecture, and built for the people who run the internet’s plumbing. Gray is made by Layer Gray, Inc.