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Software engineer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- $150k-$200k
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Join a team building useful software. Work closely with engineering and design to turn new ideas into products.
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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
- Location
- Paris
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- €60K - €100K EUR; 0.30% - 1.00% equity
- Posted
- 7D AGO
About the role
About the role
Location: Paris, France. We value working in person, and we stay flexible. You may also need to join trips to San Francisco to meet our customers.
Language: English is required. You do not need to speak French.
The role
Customer delivery is the core of Armature today, and you own it. You make sure our customers get real value every day, you shape how we deliver that value as we grow, and you contribute to the product.
It starts with your customers. You learn each one’s business, competitors and growth problems, you design the experiments that measure how often coding agents pick their product, and you prove what changes the agents’ choice. You begin next to the founders and you take over accounts step by step, until you’re the expert customers rely on and you’re accountable for the results we promise.
Much of this work still goes through agents we prompt by hand, and that can’t last as we add customers. So you define our standard approach, you build the processes, and you use agents so that each new customer takes less time than the one before. This kind of work is new, so the way you run it becomes the way Armature runs it.
What you learn along the way also shapes what we build. You work with our product engineer and our applied research engineer, so that what you see and do on the field gets turned into a better product.
What you will do
- Build our customer operations function: the processes, the standards and the tools.
- Understand each customer’s business and growth problems in depth.
- Design and run the experiments for each customer, and present the results.
- Own the relationship with your customers and the results we promise them.
- Use AI agents to automate the delivery, one repeated task at a time.
- Bring the feedback from the field to the product, and help prioritize what we build.
Who we look for
- You’re an engineer from a top school, and if you’re a new grad, your internships show that you can build things.
- You get real work done through coding agents: you split the work, guide the agents and understand what they produce, and this is the skill we value most.
- You want to talk to customers, and you’re ready to lead the conversation.
- When you promise a result, you deliver it.
- You have high agency: you move forward without waiting for instructions.
Not a fit if
- You want to stay away from customers.
- You want to spend most of your time building product.
- You’d be happy delivering the same work by hand forever.
- You’ve never used AI agents to automate part of your work.
About the interview
- An intro call with one of the founders.
- An ops case based on a customer engagement.
- A paid trial day with the team.
About Armature
Software has a new kind of user. For 30 years it was built for people who click through screens, and now agents read the docs, choose the tools, write the integrations and run the product. UX and DX are merging into Agent Experience (AX), and we believe the entire product stack has to be reinvented for it, from how a product gets discovered to how it’s built, measured and sold.
Armature is here to lead that reinvention, and we’re starting where the shift is already real. Today we help developer tools get picked by coding agents and understand how agents use them.
We are a research-led company. We run public studies on how coding agents choose tools and publish them as open leaderboards, with every trace available. Most of our customers find us through this research.
We are backed by Y Combinator (P26). Our customers are mostly US devtool companies, with high ACV.
We are two founders and we approach this shift as engineers. Louis studied at Centrale and scaled AI agents at Joko. Theodore studied at l’X, was a forward deployed engineer at Palantir, then a founding engineer at Tsuga. We iterate fast in a space that changes every week, and we’re now building the founding team that will take on the rest of the stack.
What we value
- Unreasonable ambition: Software was built for people who click through screens, and we believe the entire product stack has to be reinvented for agents, so what we do today is only the start.
- Customer obsession: We build Armature to help our customers be the next software winners in the agentic era. Nothing drives us more than bringing them value, daily, and quality is our top focus.
- Healthy impatience: We ship, measure and change course in days, and speed is never a reason for poor work.
- Unprompted ownership: When we see that something needs doing, we do it without waiting for instructions, and we own the result.
- Friends at work: We treat each other the way good friends do, which means we tell each other the truth, including the bad news and our own mistakes. We listen first, and we look out for each other when things get hard. Work is also more fun with people you like, so we laugh a lot and we celebrate our wins together.
Benefits
Competitive compensation
💸 Top-market compensation
🍰 Meaningful equity for everytone
All the essentials & more
💳 Swile meal vouchers
👨⚕️ Best-in-class health insurance through Alan
🖥️ Personal budget for work equipment in addition to the lent Apple MacBook Pro for work
🚇 Public transport
A great team in a great office
🏛️ A beautiful office in Central Paris (Opéra)
🍻 Regular team events
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