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title: 'Software Engineer at Achilles'
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# Software Engineer at Achilles

- **Company:** Achilles
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $160k–$210k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-03-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/achilleshr/3dc60ad8-8913-4ec5-bb62-c0ae5ec1c0a5

## Job description

WE ARE AN APPLIED AI COMPANY BUILDING AGENTS FOR HR TEAMS HIRING THE WORLD’S DESKLESS WORKFORCE

At Achilles, we’re building AI agents to solve the biggest problem for frontline industries — hiring.

Sam is our flagship voice and text agent that owns the entire candidate hiring pipeline — from creating resumes for candidates, to conducting multi-lingual voice interviews, to scheduling in-person final interviews with clients, all without human intervention.

Our products will strengthen the workforce of American businesses by helping them find the right candidates while drastically improving the candidate experience by making sure they get a fair chance at every opportunity.

If you’re excited about building entirely new kinds of products enabled by agentic workflows, and working with businesses in frontline industries, join us.

## THE TEAM

Our team has personally recruited 1,000s of hourly workers and generated millions in revenue in this space. There is no team that has more domain expertise than us.

- Read (CEO) — Built the growth function at Traba, an industrial staffing startup, and grew revenue from $1M to $20M ARR. Prior to this, he was in private equity buying and operating industrial facilities. He uniquely understands the challenges facing industrial HR and how to disrupt the sector with AI.
- Ben (CTO) — Lead the engineering team at Traba that built it’s core infrastructure. Prior to Traba he was a senior engineer at Tesla, leading development of, and building their global in-vehicle media streaming services.
- The rest of our founding team hails from Meta, Roblox, Tesla, USC, MIT, Cornell, and Waterloo.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Work at the forefront of LLMs and voice technology.
- Work directly with customers to understand their needs and build high-impact solutions.
- Set the new standard for UX in HR software and agentic products.

## WHAT YOU’LL BRING

- Experience contributing to an exceptional product, interesting project, or hard technical problem.
- Comfort with moving fast, ambiguity, and working hard.
- High standards for code quality.

## WHAT WE OFFER

- Top of market cash and equity for top of market candidates
- In-office working in NYC and opportunities for ongoing collaboration
- 100% subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan options
- $250 Wellness subsidization

## About Achilles

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Achilles builds an AI-powered hiring platform that automates sourcing, screening, and scheduling for frontline teams in manufacturing, construction, logistics, hospitality, and oil & gas.
- **Entity Type**: Private (early-stage; funding details not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Read Egger (CEO), Ben Schoeggl (CTO), Owen Mahoney (CPO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered recruitment software for high-volume frontline hiring
- **Target customers**: B2B – in-house HR and recruiting teams at companies with shift-based, hourly, and field workforces (manufacturing, construction, logistics, hospitality, oil & gas)
- **Mission / purpose**: “Build the agentic workforce platform for frontline HR, helping millions of workers get hired, onboarded, and supported” – with a focus on giving every candidate a fair shot and freeing HR teams from paperwork.

## Products & Services
- **[Sam – AI Recruiter](http://achilleshr.com/)**: A 24/7 multilingual conversational agent that engages candidates via text and voice, conducts custom pre-screens, schedules interviews, and updates the ATS. Handles call/text-to-apply, centralized messaging, and automated reminders to reduce no-shows. Supports 25+ languages with automatic translation.
- **Call/Text-to-Apply**: Dedicated phone lines and QR codes that capture applications via phone or text, reaching mobile-first, non-resume, and multilingual talent pools.
- **Scheduling & Q&A Hub**: One-click interview scheduling with calendar integration, arrival instructions, and a knowledge base for candidate questions (including public transit guidance).
- **ATS Integration**: Connects seamlessly with existing HRIS/ATS platforms, acting as a “system of action” while the ATS remains the system of record.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Headcount of 15 employees (as of early 2026); monthly website traffic grew +91.8% (1,800+ visits); LinkedIn followers ~1,135 (+0.8% monthly)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly listed. Integrates with major ATS platforms.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Case studies show 2.2x hires, 70% reduction in time-to-hire, and 17 days faster fills for manufacturing roles.
  - Screened 1,000 oil & gas candidates in 24 hours, narrowed to under 200; filled 150 warehouse roles in under a week.
  - Team includes alumni from Meta, Tesla, Roblox, Traba, and Workrise.

## Competitive Advantages
- Built exclusively for frontline (shift-based, hourly, field) roles, not adapted from office hiring software.
- “Sam” operates 24/7 in 25+ languages, handling call, text, and web applications – reaching candidates without resumes or email.
- Deep industrial experience: founders have personally interviewed frontline teams in oil & gas, manufacturing, and construction.
- Retains the ATS as system of record while providing a frictionless engagement layer.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand vertically into logistics, construction, and hospitality segments.
- Deepen agentic automation (move beyond screening into onboarding and ongoing support).
- Scale reach through multilingual, mobile-first candidate capture and partnership with HR tech platforms.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a “talent-dense group of builders and operators” with backgrounds at Meta, Tesla, Roblox, MIT, Cornell, UW, USC, UIUC.
- **Benefits** (from [careers page](https://achilleshr.com/careers/)):
  - Fully paid medical for employees plus wellness support
  - 401(k) and meaningful equity
  - $50/day meal credit, gym stipend, and team outings
- **Work setup**: Headquartered in New York (two offices in NYC); hybrid/remote policy not explicitly stated, but small team suggests flexibility.
- **Team size**: ~15 employees, with a mix of engineering (30%), sales (20%), and product/design – offering high ownership and impact.

## Sources
1. [AchillesHR website](http://achilleshr.com/)
2. [AchillesHR careers page](https://achilleshr.com/careers/)
3. [AchillesHR about page](http://achilleshr.com/about-us/)
4. [AchillesHR LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/achilleshr)
5. [Software Engineer job listing](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/achilleshr/3dc60ad8-8913-4ec5-bb62-c0ae5ec1c0a5)

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