# Software Engineer, Agent Harness

Our mission is to automate knowledge work. Sim is a platform to build autonomous AI agents for enterprise systems. Teams connect their integrations and Sim builds a knowledge graph of company data and processes; from there, they work with Sim to build and monitor the AI agents and workflows that run production systems. Sim is talent-dense. We're looking for special people who are mission-driven, passionate, and creative. We're a team of 10 working full-time, in person in San Francisco. We have a flat organization: you'll work directly with the founders and own your work from idea to execution. We sponsor visas. About the Role The agent harness is Sim. It's the agent that ingests and reasons over a knowledge graph of company context to build and operate agents. You'll own the systems that make this possible: context retrieval, planning and execution, tool use, memory, and recovery from failure. You'll build evals and use production traces to improve how the harness translates company knowledge into reliable agent behavior. Those findings will shape the harness architecture and the capabilities we build next. You may be a fit if You can reason about how agents retrieve and use compan

- **Id**: 735538
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sim-software-engineer-agent-harness>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-26T04:04:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-26
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T19:03:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 75
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2226
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 685799
- **Name**: Sim
- **Domain**: sim.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sim-7>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 190000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 75

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T10:56:45Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 3; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 3 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 10
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.357
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 75
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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