The live terminal is Gray's raw operator layer — real PTYs over SSH, color-tagged sessions, full scrollback, a key bar with the keys that matter. Terminal people notice everything. You are one of them, and you will build it for them.
What you will own
Own the terminal stack: PTY handling, SSH session management, scrollback, rendering
Build session persistence — a dropped connection should never lose work
Implement the host roster: live health, latency, key management
Make terminal output legible to the voice layer, so Gray can speak about what happened
Sweat the details: bracketed paste, resize, mosh-grade resilience
What you bring
You know how a terminal actually works — escape codes, PTYs, signals
Production SSH tooling experience, client or server side
Systems languages: Go, Rust, or C
Strong opinions about Termius, mosh, and tmux — and the taste to know which to steal from
Nice to have
You've contributed to a terminal emulator or SSH client
Mobile rendering performance experience
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.