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title: 'Technical Sourcer at Arago'
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# Technical Sourcer at Arago

- **Company:** Arago
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/arago/9c8d0670-c90d-4504-92bb-f2cf9f2e6ed8

## Job description

Meet Arago and the Aragonians Arago’s mission is to re-engineer the foundations of computing from first principles. The explosive growth of AI is pushing the industry to rethink how processors are built. Arago is meeting that challenge with a proprietary technology that fuses optical and CMOS technologies to deliver an order-of-magnitude increase in performance. Arago is the fastest, and currently the only, company to have built such a processor. It's backed by leading deep-tech investors and some of the most respected figures in semiconductors and computing, including the CEO of Arm, the founder of macOS who worked directly with Steve Jobs at Apple, an Nvidia Fellow, the Head of Optics at Google, and many other industry leaders. Our work is guided by three clear values: do great things, move with high velocity, and operate as one unit. We work in a demanding environment where constant learning, ownership, and execution are expected, and where exceptional people have the opportunity to do their life’s work.

## What you’ll do

As Technical Sourcer at Arago, you will own the search for some of the most sought-after engineers in the world. We build hardware that has never existed before, and finding the people who can build it requires going far beyond standard recruiting channels. You will own the full sourcing motion: mapping talent pools, building precise searches, crafting outreach that resonates with passive candidates, and building long-term relationships with high-priority profiles. Working directly with hiring managers and founders, you will develop a deep understanding of each role and the technical landscape around it, then go find the right people, wherever they are.

## Responsibilities

- Build highly targeted searches for Arago's most critical roles, ASIC architects, packaging engineers, mixed-signal verification, SW systems leads
- Craft outreach that engages passive candidates and builds long-term relationships with high-priority targets
- Develop creative sourcing strategies: GitHub, research communities, referral networks, X-Ray etc.
- Partner closely with hiring managers to build customized sourcing strategies
- Own candidate tracking, pipeline metrics, and funnel data with a structured approach
- Language: English at a proficient level.

We're Looking For

- Proven sourcing experience in deep tech, semiconductors, or AI hardware, not just software
- X-Ray search skills and comfort sourcing across GitHub, LinkedIn, and non-traditional channels
- Demonstrated success sourcing passive senior technical talent
- Ability to run multiple complex searches in parallel without dropping quality
- Genuine curiosity about the technology, you need to understand what you're sourcing for
- A long-game mindset: relationship building over transactional outreach

## Nice to Have

- Sourcing experience in technical domains
- Proven track record of filling hard-to-find roles
- Experience writing outreach that actually gets replies
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment with multiple open roles simultaneously

Pay and benefits

- Competitive cash compensation, with final package based on location, experience, and the pay of team members in similar positions.
- Meaningful stock option plan offered (included in the majority of full time offers).
- Healthcare coverage (including family-friendly options), pension contributions, professional development support, and 25 days of PTO, in addition to public holidays.
- Ownership of a key technical domain, with significant vertical and/or horizontal growth opportunities, based on performance and individual drive.

We look forward to hearing how you can help shape the future of AI at Arago.

## About Arago

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Arago builds photonic AI accelerator chips that use lasers instead of transistors to dramatically cut energy consumption while remaining compatible with existing AI software and hardware ecosystems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Nicolas Muller (CEO), Eliott Sarrey (CTO), Ambroise Müller (CSO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Semiconductor hardware, photonic computing, artificial intelligence infrastructure
- **Target customers**: AI model developers, cloud data centers, enterprises deploying large-scale AI workloads (B2B, infrastructure)
- **Mission or purpose**: To overcome the compute and memory ceilings of traditional silicon by leveraging light as a computing principle, delivering 10×–30× reductions in energy consumption for AI workloads.

## Products & Services
- **JEF (codenamed)**: A photonic AI accelerator chip that processes data using photons instead of electrons. It integrates with standard software frameworks (PyTorch, etc.) through the CARLOTA® software stack, abstracts hardware details, and achieves multi-PetaOp/s performance with significantly lower energy and cost per operation. Designed for high-volume AI tasks with n³ complexity.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$26.0M** (Seed round closed August 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Co-led by **Protagonist**, **Earlybird Venture Capital**, and **Visionaries Tomorrow**, with participation from **Generative IQ**, **C4 Ventures**, and angels including **Bertrand Serlet** (former VP at Apple), **Christophe Frey** (GM at Arm), **Olivier Pomel** (co-founder of Datadog), **Thomas Wolf** (co-founder of Hugging Face), and **Jack Abraham** (co-founder of Exowatt).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **95.2% year-over-year** to 35 employees (+20 people). operates in 7 countries (France, US, UK, Norway, Israel, Spain, Bulgaria). Technical staff makes up 59% of the team. Actively hiring 16+ roles across hardware, software, and people operations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Photonic compute core**: Uses light instead of electrons, generating far less heat and enabling 10×–30× lower energy consumption per inference/training task.
- **Full ecosystem compatibility**: The chip is designed to work with existing manufacturing processes, standard AI frameworks (PyTorch), and GPU-like programming models—avoiding the “cold start” problem that plagues most alternative processors.
- **Deterministic architecture**: Achieves high memory-transfer efficiency for pointwise operations (n² complexity) while accelerating tensor-heavy workloads (n³ complexity) at ultra-low power.
- **Backed by deep-tech veterans**: Investors and advisors from Apple, Arm, Nvidia, Microsoft, Hugging Face give credibility and access to semiconductor industry expertise.

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate product development and commercialisation of the “JEF” processor.
- Grow the team across development sites in Paris, Tel Aviv, and other hubs.
- Deepen business partnerships with AI infrastructure providers and foundries.
- Maintain full software-layer abstraction (CARLOTA®) to ensure seamless adoption by existing AI workflows.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Arago describes itself as a team of “AI engineers and physicists who believe in great science and fast achievements” and seeks “bold jack-of-all-trades who love to ship products quickly” ([arago.inc](https://www.arago.inc/)).
- **Work model**: Roles vary by location and function – some positions are on-site (Paris, Tel Aviv), others offer remote or hybrid arrangements (e.g., Head of People – Remote; Software Engineer – Drivers & Virtualization – Remote or Hybrid; Digital IC Backend Design Engineer – On-site) ([Built In](https://builtin.com/company/arago-inc/jobs)).
- **Growth trajectory**: A fast-scaling startup (95% YoY headcount increase) with a mission to redefine AI hardware – ideal for engineers and scientists who want to work on cutting-edge photonics, hardware design, and AI software.
- **Team composition**: Highly technical, with 59% of staff in engineering and science roles, and alumni from top research labs and companies like AMD, Mobileye, and EssilorLuxottica.

## Sources
1. [arago.inc](https://www.arago.inc/)
2. [LinkedIn – Arago Inc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aragoinc)
3. [Tech.eu – Arago raises $26M](https://tech.eu/2025/07/08/arago-raises-26m-to-slash-ai-energy-consumption-with-breakthrough-photonic-chip/)
4. [Built In – Arago Inc Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/arago-inc/jobs)
5. [Ashby – Arago Careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/arago)

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