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# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - US at H Company

- **Company:** H Company
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hcompany/d9f3664c-b83d-4d13-af2b-3e048157e42f

## Job description

## 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

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: H Company builds a full-stack enterprise platform for deploying autonomous AI agents that can navigate digital workflows, fill forms, and complete tasks across browsers and enterprise systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital-Backed; Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France (with a hub in London, UK)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Gautier Cloix (CEO), Laurent Sifre (Chair of the Scientific Committee); leadership team includes Maxime Defauw, Caroline Charra, Pierre-Louis Cedoz, and Géraldine Lafontaine [hcompany.ai/team](https://hcompany.ai/team)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Business/Productivity Software; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning; Automation/Workflow Software [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/597244-24)
- **Target customers**: Global enterprises (B2B)
- **Mission**: Build AI systems that powerfully and reliably work in the real world, enabling teams to focus on what matters by letting AI do the rest [hcompany.ai](https://hcompany.ai/)

## Products & Services
- **Holo Models API (Holo3)**: Multimodal AI models designed to interpret content and operate across real-world digital workflows. Available via API for enterprise integration.
- **HoloTab**: A Chrome extension that deploys an AI agent inside the browser. It navigates websites, fills out forms, and completes tasks on behalf of the user. Users can create "Routines" to automate manual chores.
- **Autonomous Enterprise Operations Platform**: A full-stack enterprise platform combining models, advanced agents, scalable execution, and continuous learning for deploying "action-oriented AI" in production.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (Privately held)
- **Total Funding**: $220M raised (Seed Round completed May 2024) [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/597244-24)
- **Key Metric**: 90 employees (as of 2026); generating revenue [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/597244-24)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel, Aglaé Ventures, Amazon.com, Auriga Cyber Ventures, La French Tech (24 total investors) [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/597244-24)
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Mithril Security (Jan 2024); maintains a wholly-owned subsidiary H.Ai Technology in London; active hiring across Research Lab, Forward Deployed Engineering, and Product Development teams

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack approach**: Combines proprietary multimodal models, browser-based agents (HoloTab), and enterprise orchestration into a single platform rather than point solutions.
- **Deep research foundation**: Leadership includes former foundational AI researchers who have scaled products used by governments and the world’s largest enterprises [hcompany.ai/team](https://hcompany.ai/team)
- **First-mover in browser-based enterprise agents**: HoloTab competes in the emerging "AI agent doing work in your browser" category, differentiated by enterprise-grade reliability and routine automation.
- **Strong investor syndicate**: Backed by Accel, Aglaé Ventures, and Amazon.com — signaling confidence in enterprise AI deployment.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling agentic AI from browser extensions (HoloTab) to full enterprise-wide autonomous operations
- Expanding the Holo Models API (Holo3) as a platform for third-party developers and enterprise integrations
- Growing the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team to customize solutions for large enterprise clients
- Continuing research into reliable, action-oriented AI systems that can be trusted in production environments

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "fast-moving, creative, and collaborative" with a "high-trust, multicultural environment." Values include integrity, curiosity, impact-first mentality, and "ship fast, learn faster" [hcompany.ai/careers](https://hcompany.ai/careers)
- **Work style**: Hackathons spark bold ideas, regular offsites, team celebrations. "Everyone’s empowered to take initiative, fix what’s broken, and own outcomes." [hcompany.ai/careers](https://hcompany.ai/careers)
- **Team composition**: A blend of deep research expertise and hands-on experience building and deploying mission-critical technology at global scale. Teams include Research Lab, Forward Deployed Engineering, and Product Development [hcompany.ai/team](https://hcompany.ai/team)
- **Locations**: Headquarters in Paris, hub in London. Roles likely span both offices with flexibility (policy not explicitly stated).
- **Role types actively hiring**: Research, Forward Deployed Engineering, Product Development [jobs.ashbyhq.com/hcompany](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hcompany)

## Sources
1. [hcompany.ai](https://hcompany.ai/) — Official website with product descriptions, mission, and platform overview
2. [hcompany.ai/team](https://hcompany.ai/team) — Leadership team, values, and team structure
3. [hcompany.ai/careers](https://hcompany.ai/careers) — Culture, values, and hiring philosophy
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/hcompany](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hcompany) — Active job openings
5. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/597244-24) — Funding history, valuation, investors, employee count, and acquisition data

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