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title: 'Head of Developer Experience at Code Metal'
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# Head of Developer Experience at Code Metal

- **Company:** Code Metal
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-01
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/code-metal/b303f301-8eb9-434b-b651-b3f808bd6eeb

## Job description

## About Code Metal

Code Metal is the leader in automated software engineering you can trust. As AI writes more of the world's code, the bottleneck in software has shifted from writing code to verifying it works, and AI cannot verify its own work with certainty. Code Metal takes a fundamentally different approach: constrain AI to what it does reliably, verify every step independently of the model using formal methods, and keep engineers in the loop on the decisions that matter. The result isn't code that probably works — it's code that is provably correct, with auditable proof. Customers including the U.S. Air Force, L3Harris, RTX, and Toshiba use Code Metal to modernize legacy code, optimize performance on real hardware, and move prototypes to production, fast. Founded in 2023 with offices in Boston and San Francisco, Code Metal is funded by Accel, Salesforce Ventures, B Capital, Smith Point Capital, J2 Ventures, Shield Capital, Overmatch, RTX, and others. Learn more at [codemetal.ai](http://codemetal.ai). About the Role: Code Metal's forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) solve hard problems inside secure customer programs every day. Along the way, they invent tools, pipelines, and patterns that make our platform faster and more reliable. That field innovation is one of our richest sources of product value. We're hiring a leader to capture that innovation and turn it into products that customer engineers can use on their own to automate software engineering with trust. You'll own the developer experience, where engineers build, translate, verify, and review agent work, with FDEs as customer zero. You'll standardize what works, decide what becomes commercial product, prove it with design partners, and bring it to market. The goal is to clear away the noise and bespoke work so FDEs and customer engineers can focus on the problems only they can solve. You'll report to the SVP, Head of Product. It's a builder's role: you'll set the strategy, build the team, and ship the first version alongside them.

Location: Remote (U.S.), with 25% travel.

Responsibilities:

- Field-to-product engine: Treat FDEs as customer zero. Consolidate and standardize their tools and pipelines, capture repeatable patterns, and decide what becomes commercial product and what stays custom.
- Feedback from secure environments: Build a reliable way to bring product improvements back from air-gapped and secure deployments.
- Developer experience: Own strategy and roadmap for the interfaces where engineers build, translate, verify, and review agent work, and iterate on them directly.
- Repeatable results: Turn proven FDE workflows into interfaces, templates, skills, and guided flows, so the same inputs produce the same results whoever runs them.
- Trust and compliance: Surface lifecycle artifacts and auditable proof in the review workflow, and let customers encode their own standards, so engineers can trust the output and defend it.
- Design partners and value: Validate with 3–5 commercial engineering teams before broad launch, and instrument the adoption and ROI metrics leaders use to justify and expand their investment.
- Product storytelling: Create demos, videos, and presentations, and partner with Sales and Growth on packaging, positioning, and launches.
- Team: Help hire the growing product team, and lead and mentor PMs and design.

What Success Looks Like in Six Months:

- FDE tooling consolidated into one instrumented internal release that FDEs use daily.
- A working path for product improvements from secure environments back to the core product.
- A measurable drop in custom code per project.
- New team members hired, onboarded, and shipping.
- 3–5 commercial, enterprise, and government design partners actively using Code Metal tools in a “self-service” manner.
- A first commercial release, with adoption and value metrics in place.

Requirements:

- 10+ years in product, technical consulting, or solutions leadership and management
- A track record of building tools that make delivery teams faster, and turning services work into repeatable commercial products.
- P&L or revenue ownership for a product line.
- Hands-on depth in agentic developer tools and AI-assisted SDLC, including leading enterprise adoption of them.
- A track record of cutting through complexity to find simple, elegant product solutions.
- Product judgment to tell a one-off customer request from a repeatable product need, and the discipline to say no.
- Ability to ramp quickly into deep technical domains and earn credibility with engineers and technical founders.
- Strong writer and presenter who makes complex technical ideas clear for executives, engineers, and customers.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance if required.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Consulting or professional services background, especially building products alongside delivery teams.
- Experience building products for developers, engineers, or other highly technical users.
- Exposure to government, defense, or other regulated environments.
- A public body of work on AI adoption, agentic engineering, or software strategy.
- Experience mentoring product managers and building teams from scratch.

## Benefits

- Pay depends on experience, but we strive to be at the upper end of the salary range
- Health care plan with 100% premium coverage, including medical, dental, and vision
- 401k with 5% matching
- Paid Time Off (uncapped vacation, plus sick and public holidays)
- Flexible hybrid or remote work arrangement
- Relocation assistance for qualifying employees

Wage Transparency - The salary range for this role is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as the final offer amount may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, individual proficiency, skills, experience, and location.

We are an equal opportunity employer. US Citizenship may be required for certain project assignments involving security clearance.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

## About Code Metal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Code Metal provides an AI-powered platform for verifiable code translation, enabling mission-critical industries to safely move software to different hardware architectures and languages with formal verification.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Software development tools; defense, automotive, aerospace, robotics, logistics
- **Target customers**: B2B enterprise – engineering teams in safety-critical sectors (defense, automotive, aerospace, medical devices)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Make AI trustworthy by safely delivering the last mile for mission critical industries" ([codemetal.ai](https://codemetal.ai/))

## Products & Services
- **Verifiable Code Translation Platform**: An AI-driven tool that automatically translates source code to a target architecture/language while generating a full test suite (functional and MCDC coverage) and formally verifying functional equivalence. Designed for safety-critical and compliance-heavy environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed directly; latest round implies a post-money valuation in the hundreds of millions (conflicting reports).
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: Conflicting data – $178.45M or $184.45M (see sources). Latest round was a $125M Series B in February 2026, led by **Salesforce Ventures**. ([cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/code-metal) and [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/548367-58))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: J2 Ventures, Shield Capital, Overmatch Ventures, Smith Point Capital, RTX Ventures, Salesforce Ventures (lead Series B), and 20+ others.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount of 63 (as of mid-2026), growing 182.8% YoY.
  - Active job postings: 57, up 714% YoY. 
  - Customers include a top‑5 global automotive OEM, a top aerospace company, and L3Harris.
  - Patents filed for code translation and program synthesis using LLMs.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Formal verification + AI**: Unlike typical AI code assistants, Code Metal guarantees functional equivalence through automated testing and compliance checks, making it suitable for systems where failure is not an option.
- **Chip portability**: Allows customers to avoid vendor lock-in by maintaining a single source-of-truth codebase deployable to any chip (ARM, RISC‑V, GPUs, etc.).
- **Track record in defense/aerospace**: Already deployed with L3Harris and major aerospace/automotive firms, providing a strong reference base.

## Strategic Focus
- **Go‑to‑market**: Deepening relationships with defense primes and automotive OEMs while expanding into robotics, telecommunications, and medical devices.
- **Product development**: Investing in compiler and AI tooling, modeling & simulation, formal methods, and GPU/accelerator support (evident from open positions).
- **Scaling team**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, research, and go‑to‑market roles (Boston, San Francisco, remote).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & impact**: "Building a global team of exceptional builders" – focus on solving hard problems at the intersection of AI, compilers, and safety-critical systems.
- **Work policy**: Offers roles in Boston, San Francisco, and fully remote (US). Many engineering/research positions list "Boston, Remote, San Francisco".
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Exposure to cutting-edge AI and formal methods; opportunity to work with top defense contractors; high autonomy and a flat structure (only 63 employees).
- **Growth trajectory**: 182.8% headcount growth and fundraising momentum signal rapid scaling and career advancement potential.

## Sources
1. [codemetal.ai – Homepage](https://codemetal.ai/)
2. [codemetal.ai – Careers](https://www.codemetal.ai/careers)
3. [CBInsights – Company Profile & Financials](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/code-metal)
4. [LinkedIn – Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/code-metal)
5. [PitchBook – Valuation & Funding](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/548367-58)

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