Careers
Our mission
At Harmony Intelligence, our mission is to ensure the safe flourishing of humanity in a world with ever more advanced AI systems. We recognize the tremendous potential of AI to positively impact the world, but also the risks AI poses if not developed carefully. Join our motivated team and help steer transformative AI in a safe and positive direction!
What we've done
We're a rapidly growing, remote first startup with folks in San Francisco and Sydney. Though we’re new, we're already making a big impact -- we’ve contributed to the safety evaluations of frontier models from leading AI labs, published two AI safety papers to massively positive reception (including 9 citations in the International AI Safety Report chaired by Yoshua Bengio), and spoken in front of an Australian Senate hearing on AI.
What we're working on
Our present focus is on preventing AI risks related to cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is undergoing a tectonic shift due to AI, and ensuring that people & organizations remain protected from cyberattacks is necessary for humanity's future to be safe & secure. We're working to develop sophisticated cyber defenses capable of matching the unprecedented speed and sophistication of cyberattacks in the AI era.
Our team
Our world-class team is made up of deeply experienced startup builders, managers, and engineers from orgs including Plaid, Vow, 0x, Duke University, and MATS.
Why you'll love it here
- Have real impact solving the biggest and most pressing challenge of our lifetimes
- 20 vacation days and unlimited recovery, family, and caregiver leave
- Regular company off-sites at fun, energizing locations (our last one was in Fiji 🏝️!)
- Inclusive culture that embraces diverse perspectives and backgrounds
- Continuous learning opportunities and clear paths for career growth
- Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance (in jurisdictions like the US where employer-funded insurance is the norm)
- Flexible work-from-home or work-from-office policy
Geographic location & collaboration hours
As a remote-first team, it's important we find time to collaborate and support one another. To help facilitate this, we have a “collaboration hours” policy. We use this time for stand-ups, brainstorming sessions, pair programming sessions, and other meetings.
Our collaboration hours are 10pm - 3am UTC. You can be based in any geography worldwide, as long as you are generally available during these hours on work days.
Collaboration hours are a general rule of thumb, not a hard requirement. We understand that you may have some non-work needs (e.g. caregiver responsibilities, recovering from illness, personal emergencies) on certain days. As long as you communicate with your team and manager and are generally available during collaboration hours, that works for us 🙂.
Open Positions
Software Engineer
As a Software Engineer at Harmony, you’ll have a unique opportunity to have a big impact! Your work will be multi-faceted, spanning software engineering, product ideation, project planning, applying cutting edge AI research, building customer relationships, and more.
We care more about growth potential than exact skills and experience fit. Our field is always evolving, and we embrace learning as we go. If you meet many of the criteria below but not all of them, we encourage you to apply anyway!
What you’ll be doing:
- Designing and building AI-powered cybersecurity products that protect people and organizations
- Designing autonomous agents that can use tools, understand their environment, plan, and use long-term memory
- Brainstorming and prototyping new product ideas
- Keeping up with and applying ideas from the latest AI research
- Interfacing directly with customers, partners, and research collaborators
- Communicating technical proposals and findings for different audiences
- Scaling up infrastructure and making code more efficient
What you bring to the table:
- Genuine passion for our mission — the safe flourishing of humanity alongside AI — and an impact mindset in everything you do
- Deep experience with product discovery and prototyping; the ability to rapidly develop MVPs and validate them with customers
- Ability to be flexible and wear multiple hats, context-switching between different roles and responsibilities as needed
- Experience building complex software projects across all stages of development: architecture design, prototyping, deployment, and long-term maintenance/debugging
- Comfortable with Python fundamentals
- Familiarity with basic web technologies: HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Grounding in software engineering best practices, including version control, testing, CI, and documentation
Nice to haves:
- Cybersecurity experience, potentially including pentesting, vulnerability management, security incident response, or threat intelligence
- Production-level front-end and UI experience, including experience with front-end frameworks such as React
- Experience with Docker and related tools (e.g. Docker Compose, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with popular Python libraries and frameworks such as Flask and asyncio
- Knowledge of common LLM architectures (e.g. GPT, BERT), and experience with fine-tuning and/or prompting LLMs
- Experience with data analysis, visualization, and reporting tools (e.g. pandas, Matplotlib, seaborn, Plotly)
- Exposure to DevOps / cloud infra services such as AWS, GCP, Azure or similar
Compensation:
- Competitive salary based on experience & locale. We believe in paying fairly and rewarding top talent.
- Generous stock options that give you a stake in the company's success. Equity from 0.1% to 1%, depending on skills and background.
Chief of Staff
As Chief of Staff at Harmony, you'll be at the heart of our operations, working directly with the founders to build and scale critical company functions. This is a unique opportunity to have massive impact across the entire organization, from HR and finance to fundraising and culture-building.
We care more about growth potential than exact skills and experience fit. Our field is always evolving, and we embrace learning as we go. If you meet many of the criteria below but not all of them, we encourage you to apply anyway!
The seniority of this role is flexible - whether you're a seasoned operator ready to take on significant leadership responsibilities, or a high-potential candidate eager to stretch into the role, we encourage you to apply.
What you'll be doing:
- Designing and implementing best-in-class operational processes across HR, finance, and company execution
- Supporting fundraising efforts and managing relationships with investors and external partners
- Planning and executing company offsites and culture-building initiatives
- Collaborating with founders on strategic projects (e.g. a new product roadmap)
- Helping us recruit & retain top talent, through hiring, HR, and cultural projects and processes
- As we grow, building and managing operations and cross-functional teams to drive key initiatives
What you bring to the table:
- Genuine passion for our mission -- the safe flourishing of humanity alongside AI -- and an impact mindset in everything you do.
- Consistent, efficient execution toward goals
- The ability to rapidly ship “80/20” MVPs while still meeting project requirements
- Experience building and scaling processes, balanced with flexibility and empathy
- Experience selecting and managing external vendors, including SaaS products, professional services, and contractors
- Strong people and stakeholder management skills
- Quick learner who can apply new skills pragmatically to achieve outcomes
- Excellence in both independent and collaborative work
- Resourcefulness and good problem solving skills
- Proficiency with modern tools, including AI, to amplify your productivity
- Ability to thrive in our remote-first environment (note: we’ll cover the cost of a co-working space, if that’s your preference!)
Nice to haves:
- Experience working in both US and Australian business environments (our two main geographies)
- Experience working in a high-growth startup
- Experience in relevant systems we use (or similar): Xero, Slack, Rippling, Google Workspace, Notion
- Domain expertise in relevant operational areas (top areas: HR / people ops, finance, go-to-market)
Compensation:
- Competitive salary based on experience & locale. We believe in paying fairly and rewarding top talent.
- Generous stock options that give you a stake in the company's success. Equity from 0.1% to 1%, depending on skills and background.
- Larger equity amounts may be considered for more senior candidates keen and able to take on greater responsibility.
Expression of interest
If none of the above open roles is a fit for you, but you think you'd be a great future member of the Harmony team, we'd still love to hear from you. Fill out the Expression of Interest form by clicking the button below and we'll let you know as soon as we have any openings that might be a good fit 🙂.
In the future, we're likely to have openings spanning Engineering, Research, Sales, Marketing, Operations, People, and more.