Senior Content Writer, Engineering

• What are we looking for?
• Hercules https://hercules.app is looking for a senior or staff level Content Writer to work with our engineers to write technical content for our engineering blog.
• What will you do?
• Deep dive into our engineering and research. Write about the hardest technical challenges we’re solving: the systems we build, the decisions and tradeoffs behind them, what worked, what failed, and what we learned.
• Find new stories. Spend time with engineers, read internal documents, and explore our product and codebase to uncover ideas worth publishing.
• Publish a lot! Don't just make a lot of drafts, get your writing published then the next, then the next! Shipping is a big part of our culture at Hercules. There is plenty to write.
• Help engineers publish. Co-write and edit posts with our team, turning rough notes, conversations, and technical drafts into excellent articles supported by diagrams, code examples, and data
• What skills do we expect you to have?
• Exceptional technical writing. You explain complex ideas clearly without losing the details that matter. Your writing is terse, simple, precise, and useful.
• Note: We explicitly require a portfolio of excellent writing for an engineering audience for applying to this job.
• Strong research and analytical rigor. You can read technical papers, interpret benchmarks and experimental results, and check the evidence behind a claim. You explain methodology, tradeoffs, and limitations accurately.
• Editorial judgment. You recognize what other engineers will find surprising or useful. You can turn a complicated project into a focused story and use diagrams, charts, and code examples to make it easier to understand.
• AI native. You use AI to 10x your output speed and improve your quality.
• What are Hercules’ operating principles?
• We ship. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers.
• We strive for excellence. Doing things well is in our DNA. We have good taste. We get the details right. Our outputs are exceptionally simple and self-serve. We’re proud of our work.
• We are hungry. We are willing to work hard and break through walls to achieve the outcomes we want. We are willing to operate at any level to get things done.
• Is Hercules in-office or remote?
• What are Hercules’ benefits?
• Unlimited AI token budget
• Take what you need vacation policy
• Healthcare, vision, and dental
• Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office
• We guarantee you will do the best work of your career here

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