Example Company
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 Engineer, Product
- 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 get the chance to join us on occasional trips to San Francisco.
Language: English is required. You do not need to speak French.
The role
Today, Armature operates mostly as a service. We run thousands of experiments for our customers on our internal infrastructure, and most of what customers get from us still goes through people. Your job is to define what Armature’s product will look like, and then to own its delivery, from the first design to production.
You’ll work closely with the founders and our founding forward deployed engineer to turn customer needs into repeatable workflows, and you’ll put the results on a platform that feels intuitive. That platform has to make our operations 100x smoother, so we can serve 100x more customers and raise our quality at the same time.
We evolve very fast, so what you build next will keep changing, and you’ll shape it with the founders and our founding AI applied research engineer. This product is also the first piece of the stack we want to reinvent for agents, and there’s no existing product to copy.
What you will do
- Spend time understanding customers needs and our daily operations.
- Choose what becomes self-serve and what still needs a human-in-the-loop.
- Make the calls on architecture, data model as well as UX/UI, and live with them.
- Work with our founding AI applied research engineer to turn the latest research into the best evals system there is, so customers can trust every result we give them.
- Ship to real customers, watch how they use it, and change it within days.
- Say no to good ideas, so the product stays simple.
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 build through coding agents every day: you split the work, guide the agents and understand what they produce, and this is the skill we value most.
- You care about product and design, and you can show something you shipped that people use.
- You listen to customers and to the team in the field, and then you make the call.
- You have high agency: you move forward without waiting for instructions.
Not a fit if
- You need a finished spec before you start.
- You think design is someone else’s job.
- You’d rather build alone than talk to customers.
- You want a roadmap that stays the same for a year.
- You prefer to write every line yourself over working through coding agents.
About the interview
- An intro call with one of the founders.
- A product and technical case.
- 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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