Founding Engineer, Product

present of AI; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Armature is seeking an engineer to define a product from scratch and drive it through production. You will shape architecture, data models, and design decisions, guided by hands-on coding with agents.

You will ship something practical that customers will use and iterate based on feedback. You will talk with customers and field staff before making calls, exercising high agency to move complex work forward without waiting for detailed instructions.

Qualifications

• Experience defining a product from scratch and taking it to production.
• Ability to design architecture and data models for scalable systems.
• Experience shipping a real product used by customers.

Responsibilities

• Define a product from scratch and carry it through to production, including architecture and data model decisions.
• Build day-to-day using coding agents and ship a real user-facing product.
• Talk with customers and field staff before making decisions; demonstrate high agency.
• Collaborate with R&D to translate research into practical evals and tooling.

Skills

Product architecture

Data modeling

Agent-based development

Customer communication

Shipped product

Job description

This role asks for an engineer who can define a product from scratch and carry it through to production, making architecture, data model and design decisions along the way. A strong candidate builds daily through coding agents, has shipped something real that people use, and can talk with customers and field staff before making a call. High agency matters, since the work moves forward without waiting for detailed instructions.

How it fits the AI era

The product itself is meant to be rebuilt for agents, and the role leans on coding agents as the main way of building. AI changes how the work gets done, but the human parts stay: deciding what becomes self serve, what keeps a person in the loop, and judging what the agents produce. Turning research into a trustworthy evals system is where AI and human judgment meet.

How it builds AI experience

Working here means hands on practice with coding agents every day, splitting work, guiding them and checking their output. The role also offers a close view of applied AI research, since the person works with a founding AI applied research engineer to build an evals system customers can trust. That combination builds skill in agent driven development and in evaluating agent behavior, which fits what the company does for developer tools.

Worth showing

• Coding agent workflows
• Shipped product proof
• Product and design sense

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About Armature

Armature helps developer tools evaluate how autonomous coding agents discover, select, and interact with their products, per the company.