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title: 'Software Engineer, Deployed at Factory'
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# Software Engineer, Deployed at Factory

- **Company:** Factory
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-01-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/factory/9b4262d3-4468-4e74-9d47-6ac3ae2804ec

## Job description

## ABOUT THE ROLE

Factory is on the cutting edge of software development. We create and deploy AI solutions to accelerate engineering workflows across the world’s most innovative companies. We are actively looking for Forward Deployed Engineers to ensure our customers have seamless experiences with Factory’s technology, optimizing integration to drive meaningful results—from improved developer efficiency to accelerated product delivery.

As our customer base rapidly grows, you’ll report directly to the CEO and lead Factory’s highest-impact customer implementations and special engineering projects. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product strategy, customer success, and go-to-market, offering you the deepest exposure across multiple aspects of our business.

## WHAT YOU WILL DO AND ACHIEVE

- Lead end-to-end implementation and integration of Factory’s platform into customer engineering environments, directly partnering with customer teams to design robust, optimized workflows and build successful, long-term partnerships
- Act as the CEO's primary technical lead on customer engagements, frequently traveling on-site to champion rapid product adoption, solve complex engineering challenges, and reduce customer time-to-value
- Lead special engineering projects that expand Factory’s product capabilities, directly influencing the product roadmap and ensuring alignment with customer needs
- Respond rapidly to customer needs, which may include integrating with new systems, troubleshooting and fixing critical issues in diverse codebases, or innovating on the fly to leverage Factory in novel ways that solve customers' specific problems.
- Deeply understand our customers’ use cases and develop the tooling and documentation necessary to support their growth at scale
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, Sales and Operations, acting as a bridge between our customers and our internal teams, translating customer feedback into actionable product improvements and collaborating closely with internal teams to implement these enhancements swiftly and efficiently
- Continuously learn and stay updated on the latest in software development practices, tools, and technologies to ensure Factory remains at the forefront of automation and AI in engineering

## QUALIFICATIONS

- Ideal candidates will have 2-3 years of experience, preferably with a background in companies known for their innovation in AI and software engineering, such as Palantir, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Applied Intuition, and Glean
- Demonstrable capability to quickly grasp new technologies, programming languages, and software development practices. Proficiency across a broad tech stack is highly valued, as is the ability to make code changes across various parts of the Factory codebase
- Strong problem-solving abilities, including quickly diagnosing, debugging, and resolving technical challenges in customer-facing roles
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with proven experience building positive relationships and effectively collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A hunger for learning and a drive to continuously improve, both in terms of personal skills and the product's value to customers. Must be motivated, proactive, and capable of thriving in a fast-paced, evolving startup environment

This is an in-office position (5 days/week) in San Francisco (walking distance to Caltrain)

## About Factory

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Factory is an AI research lab building autonomous software development agents ("Droids") to automate and optimize the entire software development lifecycle.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Matan Grinberg (CEO & Co-Founder), Eno Reyes (CTO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Autonomous Agents
- Target customers: Enterprise engineering organizations (B2B)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Bring Autonomy to Software Engineering"

## Products & Services
- **[Droid]**: An autonomous software development agent that performs real engineering work across IDEs, CLI, and CI/CD environments. Handles refactors, migrations, debugging, incident response, and feature development in large codebases. Operates through a model-agnostic architecture and supports long-running processes, structured planning, and verified outputs such as PRs and deployments.
- **[Factory Router]**: A product that automatically selects the right AI model for each coding task, cutting costs 20-25% while maintaining frontier model performance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.5 billion (as of early 2026, per Series C announcement) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2)
- **Total Funding**: $220M [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2)
- **Latest Funding Round**: $150M Series C (raised ~2 months ago as of July 2026) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2)
- **Notable Investors**: Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, NEA, Abstract, MANTIS Venture Capital, 20VC [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2). Board members include AI veteran Lila Tretikov (NEA Partner) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2).
- **Notable Customers**: NVIDIA, Morgan Stanley, EY, Palo Alto Networks, RBC, Revolut, Adobe, MongoDB [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2)
- **Notable Advisors**: Ali Ghodsi (CEO & Co-founder, Databricks), Aaron Levie (CEO, Box), Dev Ittycheria (CEO, MongoDB), Nikesh Arora (CEO, Palo Alto Networks), Frank Slootman (Former CEO, Snowflake), Michael Ovitz (Co-founder, CAA) [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/company)
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid enterprise adoption moving beyond experimentation; appointed Marcello Gallo as CRO (formerly CRO at Sigma and Moveworks, senior sales leadership at MongoDB) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2); appointed Madison Faulkner as Head of Strategy [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2); Headcount growing rapidly (+4% monthly on LinkedIn) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/factory-hq)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Model-Agnostic Architecture**: Factory's Droids are not tied to a single AI model, allowing them to use the best model for each task and switch as the landscape evolves. The Factory Router product further optimizes cost and performance by intelligently routing tasks.
- **Deep Integration**: Agents work natively within existing developer tools (IDEs, CLI, CI/CD), meaning teams don't need to change their workflows to adopt Factory.
- **Enterprise-First Focus**: The company is building for large-scale engineering operations with production-grade reliability, security, and control, as evidenced by their customer list (NVIDIA, Morgan Stanley, etc.).
- **Top-Tier Talent & Advisory**: The team hails from companies like Nuro, Glean, Applied Intuition, Scale AI, MongoDB, and Sourcegraph, and is advised by some of the most prominent leaders in enterprise software.
- **Strong Backing**: Backed by top-tier venture capital firms (Sequoia, Lux, NEA) with a $1.5B valuation, providing significant resources and credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise Hyper-Growth**: Scaling go-to-market with the appointment of a seasoned CRO to drive adoption among large enterprises.
- **Agent-Native Development**: Championing the shift from AI-assisted coding to fully autonomous agents that own and execute complex engineering tasks.
- **Cost Optimization**: Products like Factory Router demonstrate a focus on making AI-powered development cost-effective at scale.
- **Platform Ownership**: Enabling enterprises to own their "software factory" with a flexible, model-agnostic platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The opportunity to "Build the tool you've always dreamed of using" and shape the next era of software engineering [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/).
- **Talent Density**: The company emphasizes being a "lean and talent-dense team" that values ownership and autonomy [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/).
- **On-Site Culture**: Employees work from physical offices five days a week, fostering deep collaboration. Offices are in San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; and London, England [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/factory-factoryai).
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees; 401(k) and Flexible Savings Account; daily catered lunches and dinners; on-site gym; desk setup stipend [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/).
- **World-Class Team**: Opportunity to learn from and work alongside engineers from top AI and software companies (Nuro, Glean, Scale AI, MongoDB, etc.) and industry legends on the advisory board [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/company).
- **High-Growth Environment**: The company is in a hyper-growth phase with significant funding, a rapidly growing customer base, and a clear market need.

## Sources
1. [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/)
2. [factory.ai/company](https://factory.ai/company)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/factory-factoryai)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/factory-hq)

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