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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.\n\nFind new stories. Spend time with engineers, read internal documents, and explore our product and codebase to uncover ideas worth publishing.\n\nPublish 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.\n\nHelp 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\n\nHere are some examples of the depth and quality we are looking for: Uber Engineering, Shopify Engineering, Cloudflare’s blog, and Cursor’s research blog.\nWhat skills do we expect you to have?\nExceptional technical writing. You explain complex ideas clearly without losing the details that matter. Your writing is terse, simple, precise, and useful.\nNote: We explicitly require a portfolio of excellent writing for an engineering audience for applying to this job.\n\nTechnical depth. You can read code, understand system architecture, and follow discussions about infrastructure, databases, APIs, and AI systems. You can test code examples and explain why an engineering team chose one approach over another.\n\nStrong interviewing skills. You ask questions that uncover the interesting details: why something was difficult, what alternatives were considered, where an approach broke down, and what finally made it work. You keep digging until you understand.\n\nStrong 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.\n\nEditorial judgment. You recognize what other engineers will find surprising or useful. 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