H Company
Actively Hiring

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US

New York, Highbridge

About the role

FOUNDING FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER

What we're looking for:

• Individuals with impressive achievements and great technical skills, highly proficient in Python .

• Around 3 years of experience in AI with the ability to act autonomously and demonstrate real curiosity for AI.

• Customer-facing experience and comfortable working alongside a customer.

• Excellent communication skills.

About H: H Company is a next-generation AI research and product company pioneering the future of autonomous, agentic AI. Founded to build intelligence that acts, H Company is creating the foundational infrastructure for autonomous AI systems that drive real-world outcomes across industries.

About the Team:

The Forward Deployed Team is committed to ensuring the successful implementation of our Agents to help our customer automate and optimize tasks, and allow them to focus on what really matters. The team is also responsible to shape the future vision of our products by distilling learnings from the field into the H platform.

That platform empowers a wide range of professionals and businesses to safely, easily and autonomously deploy agents at scale for a broad range of tasks: from ensuring websites behave as expected to automating repeated tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

Understand and identify customer’s most important and impactful multi-step task to automate

Seamlessly integrate with customer systems, including but not limited to databases, third-party APIs, and internal tools, etc.

Rapidly iterate in the field with tight feedback loops to continuously improve product fit and drive end-to-end solution delivery

Architect, build, and maintain production-grade services that scale with usage and complexity

Collaborate closely with product, research, and engineering teams to shape the roadmap and align on priorities based on findings in the field

Requirements:

3+ years of professional AI + software engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced environments (e.g., startups, consulting, or product teams), or otherwise proven technical acumen through projects and past experiences

Experience working with AI/ML systems, especially integrating LLMs or other agentic workflows into real products

Heavy fluency in Python and familiarity with Typescript

Familiarity with backend (FastAPI, Next.js…) and frontend (React…) frameworks and a good sense of UI/UX tradeoffs

Experience building and deploying production systems: APIs, services, infrastructure, and/or data pipelines

Proficiency in integrating third-party APIs, databases, and external systems in a secure and reliable way

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in ambiguous, customer-facing environments

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Bias for action: able to ship quickly, iterate fast, and own the full lifecycle of solutions

Willingness to travel for on-site deployments or customer engagements

Location:

H's teams are distributed throughout Paris, France, London, UK, and the US.

This role can be based either in SF/Bay area-CA, Austin-TX, or NY.

What we offer:

Be part of the founding journey of one of the most exciting AI startups shaping the future of AI and agentic systems.

Collaborate with a fun, dynamic and multicultural team, working alongside world-class AI engineers, researchers, and builders in a high-trust, high-impact environment.

Enjoy a competitive compensation package, including equity.

About H Company

H Company (also known as "H") is a Paris-based agentic AI startup building action-oriented AI agents and foundation models that automate complex enterprise workflows by operating software the way a human would. Its flagship products include Runner H, Surfer H, and Tester H, powered by its proprietary Holo family of vision-language action models. The company positions itself as pursuing the 'third generation of enterprise AI' beyond chatbots, targeting large enterprises and governments seeking to automate legacy software workflows.

Other roles at H Company

Interested?

Let me introduce you to the founders.

Skip the process

Refer someone

Know someone great for this role?

Share your link. If they get hired through Standout, you get $3,000.

Job details

Location

New York, Highbridge

Company

NameH Company
IndustryAgentic AI
Team Size317

Funding

Total raised

$220M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Accel
AAmazon (AWS)
SSamsung
UUiPath
EEric Schmidt
WWendy Schmidt
XXavier Niel
YYuri Milner
BBernard Arnault (via Aglaé Ventures)
BBpifrance Large Venture fund
EEurazeo
Creandum
EElaia Partners
FFirstMark Capital
Motier Ventures
VVisionaries Club
FFDJ United Ventures
SSamsung Ventures
AAntoine Fabre
EElaia
BBpifrance Large Venture
SSamsung NEXT
AAglaé Ventures
BBernard Arnault
SSerena
FFirstMark
FFinanciere Saint James
BBpifrance
AAmazon
SSamsung Electronics
DDaphni
VVisionaries
PPolytechnique Ventures

Founders

CK

Charles Kantor

Co-founder; former CEO (stepped down June 2025, remains shareholder)

LinkedIn
LS

Laurent Sifre

Co-founder; CTO (now Chair of the Scientific Committee)

KT

Karl Tuyls

Co-founder (departed August 2024)

DW

Daan Wierstra

Co-founder (departed August 2024)

JP

Julien Perolat

Co-founder (departed August 2024)

DW

Daan Wiestra

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.