Careers
Not demos. Not decks. Systems with real authority inside real businesses, where being wrong is expensive and being right is measurable. If that sounds like pressure rather than fun, we are probably not the right place.
How we work
Remote-firstOf your time is yours, with a budget attached
4 wks
Minimum leave
4
Quarterly gatherings
0
Unpaid take-homes
What it is like here
Written so you can rule us out quickly if it does not fit. That is a legitimate outcome and it saves everyone a fortnight.
Our principals write code and sit in client sessions. Nobody here graduates out of the work into a purely commercial role.
You will own a system, talk directly to the client who depends on it, and have the authority to say no. Support is available; permission is assumed.
Two meeting-light days a week, asynchronous by default, and a genuine expectation that you are offline when you are off.
Ten percent of your time is yours for research, certification or open-source work, with a budget attached rather than a slogan.
Tool knowledge is teachable. The ability to tell a client something they do not want to hear, kindly and with evidence, is what we interview for.
Remote-first across North America and Europe, with quarterly gatherings that are worth flying for. Where you live is not a career variable.
The package
Every benefit below is written the way it appears in our handbook. If something is a range, we say so rather than calling it competitive.
Open roles
We hire for judgement over tool knowledge. If you are close but not exact on the requirements, apply anyway and tell us which part you would need to learn.
Design and ship agent systems that hold real authority inside client operations — planning loops, tool interfaces, evaluation harnesses and the guardrails that make autonomy defensible.
Build and operate the platforms our client systems run on: Kubernetes, Terraform, progressive delivery and the observability that makes 3am survivable.
Detection engineering, autonomous triage design and purple-team validation for client security operations — including attacking the AI systems we build.
Design interfaces for systems that carry real operational weight — exception queues, approval flows, security consoles — where clarity under pressure matters more than delight.
Own client outcomes end to end: scope, sequence, measure and report. This is a delivery role with commercial responsibility, not an account management role.
Build the measurement, experimentation and content infrastructure behind client growth programmes — attribution that survives scrutiny and pages that convert.
We keep a standing open application. Tell us what you would want to own here and what you have shipped that proves you could. We read all of them, and we reply either way.
Send an open applicationHow hiring works
We do not set unpaid take-home projects and we do not ask algorithm puzzles. Everything you do in our process is a real problem from our domain, worked through with someone who does the job.
Forty-five minutes with someone who does the work. Two-way — bring hard questions.
A real problem from our domain, worked through together. Not an algorithm quiz, and never unpaid project work.
A scenario with no clean answer. We want to see how you reason and how you disagree.
Decision within five working days of the last session, with the band and the reasoning explained.
Candidate questions
Still deciding?
Send the question to a senior engineer instead of a form. You will get a straight answer, and a no if that is the honest one.
Genuinely remote. We have no headquarters and no team is co-located, so nobody accumulates the informal advantage of being in a room. We gather in person once a quarter with travel covered, and those are worth flying for.
Flexible, with an expectation of overlap with your teammates and clients for a few hours a day. Two days a week are protected as meeting-light. We are strict about people being genuinely offline when they are off, including during on-call rotations that are compensated separately.
A meaningful amount, in every engineering role. Our model depends on the people who build the system also being the people who explain it. If you would rather never speak to a client, this will not suit you.
We hire employees where we have an entity and contractors elsewhere, both on the same salary bands. We do not currently sponsor visas, and we say that upfront rather than at offer stage.
Ninety minutes on a real problem from our domain — an agent that is failing an evaluation, a workflow with an ambiguous exception, an architecture with a cost problem. You work it through with one of our engineers. There is no correct answer we are waiting for; we are watching how you reason.
Benchmarked to the top quartile for the role and level, in published internal bands with no negotiation premium for being a confident negotiator. Reviewed annually. We tell you the band and the reasoning at offer.
Join us
Even without a matching role open. We read every open application and reply either way — usually within a week.
What to expect
Prefer email?
support@cyberxsolutions.us