Full Time
$2,000 - $3,000 per month
50
Aug 5, 2026
FOUNDING HERMES AI SYSTEMS ENGINEER & DEPLOYMENT LEAD
This is not a normal automation job.
We are building an AI operating system that will first run our own companies and then be installed inside businesses across the United States.
Increase ROAS was one of the fastest-growing agencies in our market in 2025. We have already built successful marketing systems for service businesses, generated substantial client results and proven that we can sell.
Our next stage is bigger:
We want to become the leading company installing practical AI operating systems inside American businesses.
We are hiring the founding technical builder who will help make that happen.
THE MISSION
Your mission is to turn Hermes into a dependable AI operating system that can:
- Monitor a company
- Understand what is happening
- Organize information
- Identify problems
- Prepare decisions
- Assign or recommend work
- Monitor employees and outcomes
- Manage projects
- Run scheduled checks
- Draft communications
- Create and improve SOPs
- Connect business systems
- Escalate exceptions
- Help the business operate without depending on the owner for every decision
We will first implement this system inside:
- Increase ROAS
- Hot Tub Launch
- Start Scale Automate / Aila
After it works internally, we will package and install it inside businesses throughout the United States.
This is not a one-time internal automation project.
You will help create the deployment system, skill library, documentation, security model, monitoring, update process and client-installation framework that can eventually support hundreds of businesses.
CURRENT HERMES ENVIRONMENT
Hermes currently runs on a Mac Mini and is accessed through
The environment includes or is intended to include:
- Hermes Agent
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- Obsidian memory and RAG
- Terminal access
- Browser automation
- ClickUp
- GoHighLevel
- Meta Ads
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- Google Drive
- GitHub
- Slack
- Cloudflare
- Supabase
- 1Password
- APIs
- MCP servers
- Cron jobs
- Skills
- Sub-agents
- Approval workflows
- Backups and monitoring
Some components are connected.
Some are partially built.
Some need to be tested, fixed, documented or redesigned.
You must be able to enter an imperfect environment, determine the current truth and finish working systems quickly.
NON-NEGOTIABLE HERMES REQUIREMENT
You must already understand Hermes Agent.
Strong applicants will have personally installed, configured or operated Hermes and will understand concepts such as:
- Hermes installation and upgrades
- Profiles and configuration
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- Memory
- Skills
- Cron jobs
- MCP integrations
- Tool permissions
- Terminal backends
- Sub-agents
- Context files
- Logs
- Backups
- Approval controls
- Model routing
It is not enough to have briefly heard of Hermes.
Prior production or personal Hermes setup is strongly preferred.
We will also consider someone who has studied Hermes deeply and built equivalent agent systems but was prevented from completing a full Hermes deployment because of provider, payment or geographic restrictions.
That person must:
- Explain the exact restriction
- Demonstrate equivalent technical work
- Show that they understand the Hermes architecture
- Pass a paid Hermes implementation test
We can provide approved remote access to a US-based Mac Mini and the systems required for the role.
WHAT YOU WILL BUILD
1. INTERNAL AI OPERATING SYSTEM
Turn Hermes into the intelligence and coordination layer for our own businesses.
Hermes should eventually help answer:
- What should the owners focus on today?
- Which clients need attention?
- Which employees are off-track?
- Which campaigns have problems?
- Which projects are blocked?
- Which payments failed?
- Which contracts are missing?
- What is waiting for approval?
- Which system contains conflicting information?
- What should happen next?
2. SCHEDULED BUSINESS WORKFLOWS
Build reliable scheduled workflows such as:
- Daily owner brief
- Employee activity and output report
- Client-risk report
- Campaign anomaly report
- GoHighLevel lead-routing check
- Weekly financial review
- Active-project checkpoint report
- Contract verification
- Billing exception report
- Source-of-truth consistency check
- Strategy-session capture
- Backups and recovery checks
3. HERMES SKILL LIBRARY
Build reusable skills for:
- Operations monitoring
- Project management
- Employee accountability
- Client-risk detection
- Meta Ads analysis
- GoHighLevel analysis
- Finance preparation
- Contract verification
- Task creation
- SOP drafting
- Website QA
- Technical troubleshooting
- Source-of-truth maintenance
- Client onboarding
- Reporting
4. CLIENT DEPLOYMENT SYSTEM
Create a repeatable process for installing a secure Hermes operating system inside other businesses.
The deployment system must cover:
- Discovery
- Business process mapping
- Instance setup
- Memory initialization
- Integrations
- Skills
- Permissions
- Scheduled workflows
- Data isolation
- Security
- Human approval rules
- Testing
- Training
- Monitoring
- Updates
- Backups
- Support
- Offboarding
The goal is not to manually rebuild every client.
The goal is to create a deployment factory.
5. INTERNAL OPERATIONS
Help simplify and connect:
- ClickUp
- GoHighLevel
- Meta Ads
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- Calendar
- Google Drive
- GitHub
- Cloudflare
- Supabase
- Obsidian
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- Payment and finance reporting
You will help establish:
- One source of truth for every business object
- Clear system boundaries
- Reliable task creation
- Clear owners
- Due dates
- Definitions of done
- Evidence
- Escalation rules
- Project checkpoints
6. TECHNICAL FULFILLMENT
Help build and maintain systems involving:
- Automated client onboarding
- Intake forms
- Supabase data
- GoHighLevel sub-accounts
- Website generation
- Cloudflare deployments
- Environment variables and secrets
- Meta Pixel and Conversions API
- Lead routing
- Workflow testing
- Client dashboards
- AI voice and messaging systems
FIRST 30 DAYS
Your first 30 days will focus on proving that you can finish systems safely and quickly.
Required outcomes include:
1. HERMES ENVIRONMENT AUDIT
Produce a verified matrix showing every system as:
- Connected
- Authenticated
- Read tested
- Write tested
- Scheduled workflow tested
- Production safe
- Broken
- Not configured
2. DAILY OWNER BRIEF
Build and prove an automated 11:
- Top owner decisions
- Clients requiring attention
- Employee priorities
- Overdue work
- Blocked work
- Campaign anomalies
- Unanswered communication
- Active-project checkpoints
- Work waiting for approval
- Source-of-truth conflicts
3. PROJECT CONTROL SYSTEM
Create a dependable project-control process showing:
- Project
- Business
- Desired outcome
- Human owner
- Current state
- Last verified checkpoint
- Next action
- Due date
- Blocker
- Dependency
- Evidence
- Definition of done
- Stop condition
4. CLICKUP EXECUTION SYSTEM
Help create a minimal employee work queue where each person can immediately see:
- What to do
- Priority
- Owner
- Due date
- Definition of done
- Required evidence
- Blocker
- Escalation rule
Do not delete or reorganize historical data without approval.
5. FIRST PROVEN HERMES WORKFLOWS
Deploy and test the first high-value workflows:
- Daily owner brief
- Employee activity report
- Client-risk monitor
- Active-project checkpoint
- Source-of-truth conflict detection
- Strategy-session capture
6. DOCUMENTATION AND RECOVERY
Create:
- Architecture map
- Integration registry
- Skill registry
- Cron registry
- Access matrix
- Change log
- Backup process
- Restore process
- Error-handling process
- Rollback procedures
DAYS 31–60
- Complete internal Hermes operating workflows
- Finish the source-of-truth architecture
- Expand employee and client monitoring
- Help complete client onboarding automation
- Help complete the website-generation pipeline
- Build technical QA and escalation systems
- Convert repeated work into skills, scripts or documented processes
DAYS 61–90
- Build the reusable Hermes client deployment package
- Create standard configurations and templates
- Establish client data-isolation rules
- Create deployment QA
- Create upgrade and maintenance procedures
- Help install the system inside the first external businesses
- Measure installation time, support burden and business impact
- Improve the deployment process based on real failures
REQUIRED TECHNICAL ABILITY
You must be strong in most of the following:
- Hermes Agent
- Python
- JavaScript or TypeScript
- REST APIs
- Webhooks
- OAuth
- JSON
- Databases
- Git and GitHub
- Linux or macOS terminal
- SSH
- Cron and scheduled jobs
- MCP
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- Cloudflare Pages and Workers
- Wrangler
- Supabase or Postgres
- Environment variables
- Secret management
- Browser automation
- Logging
- Monitoring
- Error handling
- Testing
- Rollback design
Strong preference for practical experience with:
- GoHighLevel
- ClickUp API
- Meta Marketing API
- 1Password
- Composio
- n8n
- Make
- Cursor
- Codex
- Claude Code
- RAG systems
- Obsidian
- Multi-agent systems
ORGANIZATION IS NON-NEGOTIABLE
You must be extremely organized.
Every project you touch must have:
- A clear outcome
- One human owner
- Current status
- Next action
- Due date
- Blocker
- Definition of done
- Evidence
- Documentation
- Canonical files
- Rollback where required
You must:
- Keep tasks current
- Update project checkpoints
- Document decisions
- Use version control
- Attach evidence
- Name files clearly
- Record what changed
- Surface risks early
- Close completed work
- Preserve source material
- Avoid duplicate systems
We do not accept:
- “I am still working on it” with no evidence
- Missing status updates
- Work hidden in private chats
- Unexplained delays
- Undocumented production changes
- Random files with unclear names
- Confident guesses
- Waiting until a deadline passes to report a blocker
WORK SPEED AND EXPECTATIONS
This is a fast-moving founder-led environment.
You must be comfortable with:
- Fast deadlines
- Short build cycles
- Weekly releases
- Multiple systems
- Direct feedback
- Rapid iteration
- Urgent client situations
- Occasional extended build sprints
- Changing priorities when real business risk appears
You should be the type of person who:
- Wants to build something significant
- Takes ownership
- Moves without constant supervision
- Works through difficult technical problems
- Investigates before asking basic questions
- Communicates early when blocked
- Does not disappear
- Does not make excuses
- Does not wait for perfect instructions
- Can turn an unclear problem into a structured plan
- Wants responsibility and long-term growth
This is not a low-pressure maintenance role.
This is also not permission to make reckless changes.
Speed must include:
- Testing
- Security
- Documentation
- Evidence
- Rollback
- Correct client identification
- Approval for production-risk actions
EXTENDED HOURS
The standard schedule is 40 hours per week.
During important client launches or critical infrastructure sprints, we may agree on temporary extended hours.
Extended hours must be:
- Discussed in advance
- Focused on a defined outcome
- Time-limited
- Compensated
- Followed by a return to the normal schedule
We are looking for commitment and urgency, not disorganization or permanent burnout.
THIS ROLE IS NOT FOR YOU IF
- You are a general virtual assistant
- You are only a prompt writer
- You only know basic Zapier automations
- You have never studied Hermes
- You cannot use the terminal
- You blindly run AI-generated commands
- You require step-by-step instructions for everything
- You avoid documentation
- You regularly miss deadlines
- You hide blockers
- You are disorganized
- You make production changes without approval
- You do not understand security
- You do not test your work
- You cannot explain your architecture
- You want a comfortable role with slow deadlines
- You are looking for several simultaneous jobs
- You are not interested in building something with national scale
WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS
You will not simply be maintaining automations.
You will help build the infrastructure behind a company whose goal is to bring AI operating systems into businesses across the United States.
The right person can grow into:
- Head of AI Systems
- Technical deployment leader
- Team manager
- Product architect
- Client implementation leader
You will have direct access to the founders, real businesses, real systems, real client problems and the opportunity to help create a new category.
COMPENSATION
- $2,000–$3,000 USD per month based on demonstrated ability
- 30-day paid trial
- Milestone bonuses for completed production systems
- Performance reviews
- Long-term growth
- Potential leadership opportunity
- Software and approved infrastructure provided
HOW TO APPLY
Start your application with the exact phrase:
HERMES BUILDER
Applications that do not begin with that phrase will not be reviewed.
Include:
1. HERMES EXPERIENCE
Describe your direct Hermes experience.
State:
- Whether you installed it
- Where you installed it
- Which version
- Which messaging gateway you used
- Which models you connected
- Which MCPs you connected
- Which skills you created
- Which cron jobs you created
- Which memory system you used
- Whether you used sub-agents
- What failed
- How you fixed it
Provide screenshots, a Loom video, repository or other evidence.
2. EQUIVALENT AGENT EXPERIENCE
Show one real AI-agent or automation system you personally built.
Explain:
- Business problem
- Architecture
- Tools
- APIs
- Memory
- Permissions
- Error handling
- Testing
- Monitoring
- Security
- Result
3. HERMES ARCHITECTURE QUESTION
Explain how you would design Hermes to:
- Read ClickUp, GHL, Meta, Gmail and Calendar
- Produce a daily owner brief
- Store durable memory
- Create tasks only after approval
- Log every action
- Handle conflicting data
- Stop safely when a system fails
4. CLOUDFLARE SCENARIO
Cursor tells a nontechnical owner to open Terminal and add a backend secret to Cloudflare.
Explain:
- How you classify the risk
- Whether Cursor is the correct operator
- Whether MCP is needed
- How the secret should be handled
- How the change is approved
- How it is verified
- How it is rolled back
- What gets documented
5. SEVEN-DAY PLAN
Provide a seven-day plan for auditing an existing Hermes installation and deploying the first reliable scheduled business report.
6. PERSONAL INFORMATION
State:
- Country
- Time zone
- Eastern Time overlap
- Desired monthly compensation
- Current employment
- Availability
- Earliest start date
- Internet backup
- Power backup
- Whether you can commit exclusively to this full-time role
PAID TECHNICAL TEST
Qualified candidates will complete a paid test in a staging environment.
The test may include:
- Inspecting an existing Hermes installation
- Connecting a mock or test MCP
- Creating one Hermes skill
- Creating one scheduled job
- Sending a
- Reading data from an API
- Handling a simulated failure
- Documenting the architecture
- Creating a rollback plan
- Producing evidence
The test will be scored on:
- Hermes knowledge
- Diagnostic ability
- Technical execution
- Speed
- Organization
- Security
- Testing
- Documentation
- Communication
- Escalation judgment
This is a founding-builder position for someone who wants to help build the AI operating system used by businesses across the United States.